I see his father was a Black Panther and his mom was a poet. He was brought up solid middle class, economically.
He's just been successfully raised to be an angry child. Thanks dad.
Kanye West Apologises To Gretchen Wilson
December 11, 2004, 8:20:23
WEST APOLOGISES TO ROLE MODELS OVER AMA TANTRUMS
Producer-turned-rapper KANYE WEST has sent out an apology to his African-American role models, after his tantrum at last month's (14NOV04) AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS (AMAS)
The THROUGH THE WIRE hitmaker lost out to country singer GRETCHEN WILSON in the Breakthrough New Artist category at the Los Angeles ceremony and fumed, "I feel I was definitely robbed. I was the best new artist this year. I don't know if I'll be back at this award show next year."
After tearing into Wilson's music backstage, labelling it "bullshit", he took the opportunity to apologise to Wilson at the GRAMMY nomination announcement ceremony on Tuesday (07NOV04).
At Wednesday's (08DEC04) BILLBOARD MAGAZINE MUSIC AWARDS, a delighted West, who had picked up Rap
Artist Of The Year, said, "I was raised better than that. It was very ignorant. I apologise to my role models including DENZEL WASHINGTON, who had to sit in that OSCAR seat and take it so many years. Guess Cary Grant, John Wayne, Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton just sat there and took it too. And they didn't eventually win like Denzel or Halle, or Jamie.....yep, life's unfair, especially to the ignorant.