Kanye West was laughed at and booed by the audience during Saturday Night Live’s 44th season premiere, after the rapper filled in as a last-minute replacement for Ariana Grande.
The 41-year-old West, wearing a red Make America Great Again hat in support of President Trump, began to lecture the audience – chastising the Democratic party for creating black welfare and calling it a “Democratic plan.”
The rant was captured on video by former SNL castmember Chris Rock, who was sitting in the audience. Rock can be heard saying “oh my God” at one point, while others in the crowd jeered the performance.
“I wanna cry right now, black man in America, supposed to keep what you’re feelin’ inside right now…” West rapped. “The blacks want always Democrats… you know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare… does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan.”
“There’s so many times I talk to, like, a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist.’ Well, uh, if I was concerned about racism I would’ve moved out of America a long time ago,” West continued.
Additionally, West described how the SNL cast attempted to “bully” him into not wearing his MAGA cap, “You can’t tell me what to do… follow your heart and stop following your mind…90% of news, LA media, writers, New York, rappers, musicians are liberal…so it’s easy to make it seem like it’s so one-sided…”
Kanye talking about how some people at SNL tried to bully him into not wearing the MAGA hat but he’s free, he’s not in their sunken place. Bravo Kanye. Be you. Be Ye. We aren’t the stereotypes they want to project and when you aren’t, you’re dangerous. pic.twitter.com/qhXMh1f0xH
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 30, 2018
According to an eyewitness who spoke with Variety magazine, the room fell silent for most of West’s dialogue.
The castmembers appeared embarrassed and two performers gently shook their heads in unison as he spoke. The audience was quiet and booed him at least twice. “The entire studio fell dead silent,” one eyewitness told Variety. West concluded by thanking the show for the platform “even though some of y’all don’t agree.”
It had already been a bumpy evening: West and his accompanists veered between mediocre and bad on the three songs the show generously gave him. In the opening spot, West performed his latest single “I Love It” with Lil Pump. The pair were comically dressed as bottles of Perrier and Fiji water (respectively) that recalled Justin Timberlake’s “Liquorville” skits on the show. –Variety
I'm one of the biggest Kanye fans on the planet. Lol but nah this ain't it, chief #snl pic.twitter.com/1eAhcQOrNC
— Polo Maruwa (@polomaruwa10) September 30, 2018
A broken clock, being right twice a day, shall not be infringed.
And that’s why I no longer watch SNL. One-sided politics and one-sided jokes. When someone like Kanye comes on and veers from the company line the cast and audience can’t handle it.
If you only let yourself hear one side of the story, you don’t believe other opinions worthy of consideration exist.
Frank Zappa fell on his face there also. Which proves the proverb: musicians should be seen and not heard.
You’re wrong Yote! They haven’t a clue what to do. The narrative is being torn to shreds live and right in front of them. The folks behind the curtain must have been shitting bricks double wide trying to figure out what to do..A black Man singing his own song is a BIG deal in the current culture war. West has 28 million followers on Twitter.
So he didn’t fall on his face and this matters..
Indeed. It was calculated to receive exactly the reaction he got. The boos and jeers were just icing on the cake. I find that tact interesting… The point of it all was to tear a small hole in the delusion and bias that pervades that medium. That echo chamber. For him it is the entertainment industry. What ensued was a textbook, classic case of mass onset cognitive dissonance.
Clearly seen by watching the folks behind him squirm.
I love it. Amazing!
Once a slave and now handing out Red pills on Saturday Night…..
Who da thunk it would be rappers that would set the Blacks free.
Long ago they arrived to glorify the thug and uplift the whore in culture. Modern day vikings raiding shores and causing mayhem. Now tired of the plunder Kanye and crew like those in Longboats of old want to settle down. Plow fields. Grow fat on the land. Be Kings….
The Lord works in mysterious ways. The worm turns and the circle burns..
Yours in Odin,
RiNS
I’m part Viking, so that’s funny.
Bullshit theater.
That was a brilliant insight.
That was harsh. Have you never heard the old saying; a sergeant may be confused or misinformed or rude or stubborn or senseless or unchangeable about his opinions or even down right stupid at times but NEVER wrong? You wouldn’t like it if I said you were wrong.
Even Chevy Chase now says SNL sucks. I mean, he just did last week!
Took him long enough, we knew that since the 80’s.
Kanye goes off the Plantation. That is how the swamp gets drained.
Puhleeeze! Kanye is plantation central. He is nothing but an apologist for the man. Kris Kardio vets his every tweet, making sure he doesn’t jeopardize the Kardiotocracy.
Focus just on Saturday night. Admit that what he did was indeed amazing in and of itself…
fer fuck sakes…
The Matt Damon skewering of K was sorta funny if not predictable from the kosher komeidan show. Ford is way more ripe for fun making but noooooo, not PC. I wonder what K’s nose tic is about. Poor guy is stressed to the max.
Oh the truth really hurts like hell.
West is an idiot, regardless of his politics.
Stick around, nocturnal.
Being red-pilled can suck, but being a truth teller will suck more because there are a hellofa lot of people in this country right now who despise the truth.
Good for Kanye. He’s seeing things clearly. Too bad all others can do is boo-hoo.
Count me skeptical.
No shit, this is the fool who tried to start his own clothing line using the confederate flag as a novel decoration. He’s the dude who thought it was cute to interrupt an awards show. Who declared that Bush didn’t care about niggers, thus forcing Trump to go reluctantly to Puerto Rico and throw water bottles at the hurricane victims. He’s the dude who tried to bum a $Billion from Zuckerberg. The guy who recently defended his wife’s honor in a tweet to the effect of; you wouldn’t like it if I said the same thing about your wife.
I keep confusing this asshole with Kevin Hart.
Kanye,
Kevin,
West,
Hart.
@cliff
Skeptical of what..The guy deserves respect for having the guts to do it.
@yote
Trump wasn’t forced to go to PR. He went there to score points after it became apparent that the folks in charge were shown to be fucken’ crooks.. He knew well before he got on AF1 what was really going on that Island. He just came for the victory lap after getting good intel on the shit going down. Pouncing when the time is right.
And now Puerto Rico is buried on page nine between the cartoons and the obits..
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-puerto-rico-mayor-arrested-corruption-20180707-story.html
This folks is how the swamp gets drained.
Kanye is no fool and sees this too! Like any Black man with a brain he knows that Brothas and Sistas have been played like rented mules by the Democrats for Generations. He smells the change in air and as the ground shifts and the front closes in..
After the debacle at Kavanaugh hearing West had figure the time was right to come out of the bunker. Get on the right side with the forces advancing on to Berlin. He understands the war. Though he was never exactly from da hood growing up, he could see it from the window.
Bullets might not be flying but the words and ideas are.
And so what if he is an asshole. Why is that now a problem for you…
Around here there be plenty. … and you seem to like quite a few of them..
So Kanye just getting right with Cheeto Jesus?
Seems that way. At least he is smart enough to know that Trump is on a roll. Yeah the midterms are the wild card but with the Trade in his pocket he has something to sell.. That’s a bad thing for Dem ticket..
And what exactly are they selling. Front and center is a dumb cunt with vocal fry.
Likely inflicted from sucking one too many cocks in High School..
She is a real asset to their brand…
Interesting…..curious to see what all the brother bashers on this site have to say about this…….step up to the mic.
Right, wrong, indifferent or stupid it took a lot of guts to do this…..
“Love me or hate me but you can’t ignore me” Reggie Jackson
i agree Lurker. It took guts to do what he did. Being separate from the herd is hard enuf. He one upped that by doing it live on National TV.
The US is fucked.
Americans don’t care if a Supreme Court judge supports censorship, NSA wiretapping, indefinite detention without a trial for Americans, and torture, but Americans will go batshit insane if he’s accused of sexual harassment.
The Supreme Court will say everything unconstitutional the government does is legal, but even if the court ruled against the government, the government would keep doing it anyway, and Americans won’t even shrug.
There are cracks in the walls, everywhere.
Those interested in improving the soil look for signs of depletion and correct the deficiency. Those with no interest continue to mistreat the land and the decline and failure manifest themselves. It becomes obvious to anyone, even those with little or no understanding of stewardship. This is a healthy field, this one is barren.
Human beings are easily led to believe things which are illusory- the double yellow line down the middle of the road is akin to a force field protecting you and your loved ones as you hurtle down the highway at 70mph, strangers with black hearts heading toward you at the same speed, inches away-but which are built on nothing more than a mutual agreement based on a common understanding. It is not a protection, it is fiction. When we all agree to accept these fantasies as if they were realities you can travel hundreds of millions of passenger miles without incident, intentional head-on crashes as rare as asteroid strikes. But when the illusion slips, when the agreements are not kept and it becomes apparent that one half of the population no longer can be trusted to keep their end of the bargain, what do you imagine would be the end result? Who would dare to get behind the wheel ever again?
This is where we are headed. I don’t know who Lil Wayne is, but he made a very cogent observation to the inquiring attorney in his deposition.”He can’t save you. Not in the real world.”
I was at an outdoor wedding this Summer and it was an overcast day with rainfall expected. It was forecast and it was something you couldn’t miss if you have any experience with weather; leaden skies, low, gray clouds, constant rumble of thunder, heavy air. The planners and the bride insisted it would pass, that the blue skies would open up and the Sun would shine, but you knew it wasn’t going to happen. The plan was for a perfect day and nothing, not reality, not common sense, not the obvious was going to dissuade them from proceeding as if their intentions were paramount. The outcome was exactly as you would imagine and the disappointment was magnified by the level of denial that preceded it. In the meantime I pulled off a dozen men to set up a space in the barn and arranged the chairs for what I knew was the only alternative. Calm, level-headed, purposeful action as the emotional whirlwind of outrage and denial continued unabated in the bride’s party.
This is where we are.