Kanye West Slams Taylor Swift Again at Intimate New York Concert

By Jason Newman Posted Nov 24th 2010 11:22AM

The rumors began Monday evening, when Teyana Taylor, guest vocalist on Kanye West's recently released new album, tweeted, "Just got to rehearsals for my performance with Mr Ye West tomorrow at the Bowery Ballroom tomorrow Dark Fantasy Baby!" By Tuesday morning, it was music's worst kept secret that West would be performing his new album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,' at the 550-capacity Bowery Ballroom in New York's Lower East Side later that night.

At around 1AM last night, West finally hit the stage to perform the widely-acclaimed album for the first time from start to finish. As Diddy, Q-Tip, Spike Lee, Aziz Ansari, Ivanka Trump, The Roots drummer ?uestlove and fashion designer Tory Burch looked on, the rapper brought out numerous collaborators involved in 'Fantasy,' including rapper Rick Ross, Pusha T, Nicki Minaj, John Legend, producer Swizz Beats and singer-songwriter Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.

But after performing the album and a handful of extra tracks, including 'Good Life' and 'Can't Tell Me Nothin,'' West went on an impassioned rant concerning his 2005 comments about George W. Bush and Hurricane Katrina, as well as accusing Taylor Swift of "riding the waves" of his endlessly replayed interruption of the singer at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

A larger chunk of West's monologue:

Everybody needs a villain, don't we? We need to blame someone at all times. For me to be considered a racist for stating a blatant truth, an obvious truth, but the nuances of my words, because I am very particular with my words, and the emotion I felt at that time wasn't worded exactly right -- but everybody came and said 'Oh my God!"...

I was emotional, that was not exactly the way I wanted to word it, but I wrote it, I rode it, just as Taylor never came to my defense in any interview, and rode the waves and rode it and rode it, that's the way I rode the waves of the Bush comment. I rode it. It's not about popular opinion. It's about when you look in your heart, and know what's right and what's wrong. When you look in your heart, look at what the media did, look at how they exploited him, they said that he said it was his lowest moment and as a mass, as America, we took that as a fact.

Vulture's got the full video and transcript:

For the countless people unable to refresh Ticketmaster quick enough to snag the $100 tickets, some lucky buyers were kind enough to offer you their extra for the cost of a small child. A quick Craigslist search revealed tickets going for $250 to $5,000, with one classy scalper "willing to listen to non-monetary offers." The Wall Street Journal reported the opening bid on one eBay auction went as high as $100,000.

Despite having sold out Madison Square Garden, West is still a fan of these small, exclusive affairs. In August, the rapper took the stage with John Legend at Lower East Side club The Box to a crowd of 200 people to debut new material. West is scheduled to perform the 'Fantasy' track 'Lost in the World' with Vernon at the upcoming Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Thursday.

Setlist (h/t to Brooklyn Vegan):

'Dark Fantasy' (with Terena Taylor & Bon Iver)
'Gorgeous'
'Power'
'All of the Lights' (interlude)
'All of the Lights' (with Bon Iver)
'Monster' (with Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver)
'So Appalled' (with Pusha T, Prynce Cy Hi, Swizz Beatz)
'Devil in a New Dress' (with Rick Ross)
'Runaway' (with Pusha T)
'Hell of a Life' (with Bon Iver)
'Blame Game' (with John Legend)
'Lost in the World' (with Bon Iver)
'Who Will Survive in America'

Encore:
'Christian Dior Denim Flow'
'Can't Tell Me Nothing'
'Paranoid'
'The Good Life'

'Lost in the World' feat. Justin Vernon from Bon Iver

Tags: Kanye West

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Wednesday 24 November

By JULIE

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iam the man taylor swift is a skinny flat chested anorexic, skeleton, whose face is always scruched up like she ate a lemon, or maybe she just listened to one of her tired cds.

By DI

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AL HE IS IS TRASH WITH MONEY. HE HAS NO COUTH WHAT SO EVER. HE MUST OF NEVER HEARD THE SAYING IS IS BETTER TO BE THOUGHT A FOOL THEN TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT. !! GO FIGURE.

By lol

Try your own advice!

By Ed

KW just needs to shut up! He is the one riding the wave because Taylor is on top and he is at the bottom. His music is garbage and so is he. Keep riding the waves on KW and you will drown yourself!

By taylor

This guy needs to be put in a padded room!! Some one make him go away!

By Digi

He's doing it to garner publicity. His career is a draaaag so what better way than attack someone who's career is going good and get publicity for it. Ignore this trash, grow up putz!

By jackson

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HE IS A IDIOT-JUST TRYING TO BE NOTICED-GUTTER TRASH

By Ken

Kanye West is a joke anyway, he needs to crawl back under the rock in which he came from, and leave everyone that has a career in music alone, i think he is jealous because he is not worth a crap as a singer or rapper or what ever he claims to be.I think the next time he opens that mouth of his to bad talk someone they need to to shut it for him.

By allrgt

I wish that Kanye would shut up about it and I wish your headline had a little more integrity.

By Pondo Sinatra

You can take the Brotha outta the Hood, You can't take the hood outta the Brotha.....He will always be like that

By mari

Who cares what Kayne West thinks! He contadicts himself re popular opinion/media. Not a very bright guy, just a giant mouth. What a loser

By thor

We need the boys from "jersey" with the juice to take care of this loser

By marcy

emotional he may be...I personally would just call him drunk and irresponsible

By bridget

ONCE A LOSER....CAN'T HELP HIMSELF....WILL ALWAYS BE A LOSER

By Chris

Blah Blah Blah Wahh Wahh Wahh...
How is it the "15 minutes of fame" has turned into months of torture for the rest of us.
Big baby I think since his mama died he has gone nuts. Not a fan of him, Bush or Taylor but at least Bush and Taylor know when to say when.

By palina76

Taylor Swift is Tennessee Trash! She has loose morals and has given it up to countless dudes including Taylor Lautner and John Mayer, the latter of which really shows how dumb she is!

Sorry White folks - but you all need to realize she's not the pure lily white flower of the valley you'd all like to think she is....HA!

By tony

bet your his sister,huh?

By rick

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Go live with him, you sound like you are like him. BLACKY

By I'm always right

I'll be your more stupid than you sound...

Thursday 25 November

By JD

Do you know what slander is?

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