More Kanye Drama: Caught Stealing, Now It's Time to Pay The Piper

Everyone's talking about the VMA's (Video Music Awards), which aired on MTV Sunday night.  American pop culture critics and bloggers are ranting and raving about Kanye West and Lil Mama acting a fool by jumping onstage when they shouldn't have been anywhere near the stage!  The clothes, the music, the performances, the tweets, and the apologies that have followed the 2009 VMA's are quite interesting, to say the least.

Kanye Offers Apology to Taylor Swift on Jay Leno's New Show 


Speaking of apologies, Kanye issued an apology on Jay Leno's show tonight for stealing little Taylor Swift's moment at the 2009 Video Music Awards.  I may be a sucker, but his apology appeared to be quite genuine.  I think this young man is deeply troubled.  He appears to suffer from severe depression, narcissism, deep pain left over from unattended and ignored sadness.  Kanye has not stopped working or taken a break to mourn and get himself together since his mother's sudden and unexpected death.  West has been quoted as saying that his mom has been his primary source of support on numerous occasions.  This is not good for anyone.  I'm glad to see that Kanye had the courage to apologize.  That takes a lot of moxie.

Watch The Jay Leno Show on television on NBC at 10 Eastern /9 Central and starting this Tuesday you may watch full episodes online in high definition here.

Watch Kanye West Apologize to Taylor Swift on Jay Leno



After the emotional interview on Jay Leno tonight, Kanye West did an awesome musical performance of what is quickly becoming a hip-hop hit with R & B singing sensation Rihanna, and Jay-Z. By the way, Rihanna has managed to keep pretty quite since Chris Brown's sentencing for domestic abuse.  Good for her.  She's a good girl and deserves  to finally be left alone and celebrated for her talent.

Beyonce Is A Class-Act At The 2009 VMA's

As usual, Beyonce' Knowles tears the house down whenever this R & B soul-stirring diva lets loose her soul and sings.  She performed "Put A Ring on It" at the 2009 Video Music Awards on MTV last night and brought the fever.  A host of twenty or so other women performed with Beyonce' and wowed the crowd one more time.  Check this out.

What's Up With Lil Mama Interrupting Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' at VMA's

Last night I thought I was confused, but now I know I've got all together.  Come to find out, it wasn't me afterall.  It was rapper and choreographer, Lil Mama who was all mixed up.  As I enjoyed Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' perform their hit hip-hop song, "Empire State of Mind" at the VMA's last night, she jump onstage and posed with Jay-Z The Great and Alicia Keys, The Superwoman at the end of their set as though she had just completed some miraculous performance.  No, no, no no!  She had no business onstage!



Lil Mama, Taking Charm Lessons  from Leiomy

Now isn't Lil Mama the same lovely person who just dissed Leiomy Maldonado, a transgender contestant for, "Not acting like a lady" on "America's Best Dance Crew," a dance competition show on MTV on which Lil Mama is a judge?  When dissing the talented and lovely woman Leiomy, Lil Mama also had this to say, “Leiomy, come on. Your behavior…it’s unacceptable. I just feel that you always have to remember your truth. You were born a man and you are becoming a woman. If you’re going to become a woman, act like a lady.”  It might be good for Lil Mama to take charm lessons from Leiomy.  She's quite a lady and man, can she dance!

According to sources at MTV, Lil Mama released the following apology:

“I did not mean any disrespect towards Jay-Z or Alicia Keys,” the rapper/America’s Best Dance Crew judge says. “I admire them and look up to them as role models. ‘Empire State of Mind’ had my emotions running high. In that moment I came up on stage to celebrate my two icons singing about NY.”

Janet Jackson Reels us In With This Fierce Performance and Tribute to Her Brother Michael!

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Kanye West Is A Thief!: Sentencing Date Unknown

Kanye West is well known for a number of things, good and bad.  The good that he's known for is the music.  He's quite talented and touted as one of the best.  Kanye will definitely go down in American pop culture history and the story of hip-hop for all to see.  The bad that he's known for grows by the day.  It was just a month or so ago when Kanye named himself The New King of Pop since Michael Jackson's untimely death.  How tacky, to say the least.  But King Kanye is known as a great rapper, performer, and trendsetter.  Kanye is also known for his musical greatness, that's for sure.  He's also known for being a thorn in the sides of many.  This is due largely in part to his outspokenness.  Who can blame an intelligent man for having an opinion,  really?

But it looks like this time Kanye has gone just a bit too far.  Last night at the MTV VMAs (Video Music Awards) at Radio City Music Hall in New York, sensational country chanteuse, Taylor Swift was ever-so-graciously saying her, "Thank yous."  She won the award for Best Female Video for her ballad, "You Belong to Me," up against such musical greats as Beyonce' for "Put A Ring on It."

Well low-and-behold, up jumps Kanye like a madman!  He jumps onstage, rudely snatches the microphone from young Taylor Swift like a thief in the night, stealing this young woman's moment, and begins yelling.  He then says to seventeen-year-old Swift, "I'm really happy for you.  I'm going to let you finish.  But Beyonce' had one of the best videos of all time."   West is basically insinuating that Beyonce' should have won instead of Taylor Swift!  TO HER FACE!  Let's also remember this young woman's age.  She's just a kid.

How rude is that?  When does it end?  When is it no longer okay to just do and say whatever one wants to?  It's high time for Mr. West to stop this madness.  We've all put up with his grade-school misbehavior for far too long.  We've laughed.  We've giggled.  We've enjoyed the publicity stunts.  But hey, now it's tired.  It's really tired.  When you step on the feet of kids like Taylor Swift and rob them of their precious moments, during which we should really be celebrating their accomplishments, it's time for someone to  step up and say, "Stop!  No more!"  Where's Kanye's mentor?  This isn't cute anymore.

Here's the mess as it happened at the VMA's.  Check it out for yourself.

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The foks in the audience, by-and-large weren't having it and took every opportunity they could to boo this dude each time his name was mentioned thereafter in his absentia.  Oh yes, West got ghost after acting a fool obviously. He was asked to leave this time.  People get tired of such ignorance.  Beyonce' is such a lady.  She displayed tremendous grace, style, and class later in the evening when accepting the highest honor of the evening.  She took home the Video of The Year Award for "Single Ladies."  The most beautiful and redemptive thing that could have happened regarding this whole mess happened when accepting this award, Beyonce' ever-so-graciously invited Taylor Swift back onstage to finish what she started earlier.  Now she could thank her colleagues, family, and friends.  What a lovely time to be alive. Check this out for yourself.  It's truly beautiful!

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By the way, her hubby Jay-Z and Alicia Keys tore it up at the show's end.  What was Lil' Mama doing.  She's a great dancer, don't get me wrong.  I just didn't know she was onstage until the very end when it was time to take a bow.  Can anyone fill me in on how she snuck onstage without anyone noticing?  Do tell.  Whenever I can hear Alicia Keys twinkle on those piano keys and sing, I'm happy!

Kanye West has robbed one too many!  What say you?  Weigh in on this one.

This Kanye thievery will NOT overshadow Janet's tribute to her brother Michael, who I just happen to adore.  She came out dangeeeeeeeeerous!  I'll tell you more on bright morrow.  Lemon slices please!

P.S.  Great news.  Kanye, like the rest of us, has a heart. Check out his apology for stealing from Taylor Swift here.

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