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#1

Kanye Booed at Bonnaroo

06/16/2008 5:00 AM, E! Online
Josh Grossberg

The Bonnaroo boobirds were out in full force for Kanye West this weekend.

The Grammy winner walked onto the festival stage nearly two hours past his scheduled 2:45 a.m. performance time Sunday morning and was greated by bleary-eyed fans’ chorus of boos and chants of “Kanye sucks.”

West was originally set to kick things off at 8:15 p.m., but because he wanted to make the most of his Glow-in-the-Dark Tour’s lighting show, the hip-hopster’s camp asked to push back the gig to 2:45 a.m. following Pearl Jam’s show.

However, the Seattle grunge rockers’ gig lasted an hour longer than planned, with Eddie Vedder and bandmates not wrapping until 1:15 a.m. Then there was an extended break while Pearl Jam’s roadies disassembled the band’s stage and West’s crew set up his own elaborate backdrop, a glow-in-the-dark spaceship along with undulating black platform and raised video screen.
Organizers posted a message via Jumbotron that the “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” rapper wouldn’t be taking the stage until 3:15 a.m., then 3:30. When 4:15 a.m. rolled around and still no West, the antsy crowd began hurling glow sticks at the stage and screaming anti-West sentiments. Bonnaroo officials didn’t help the matter, not informing festivalgoers why the changeover was taking so long.

West finally made his entrace at 4:30 a.m., but by then, many exhausted attendees had had enough and returned to their tents.

Apparently, they didn’t miss too much.

Judging by online reviews, West’s performance didn’t stand out from the 150 acts performing at the four-day musical campout. In fact, it was a yawner.

“He was two hours late, cut his show short, didn’t once acknowlegde the crowd that waited two hours on an already late show, not even a wave goodbye…I’m no longer a Kanye fan, huge disappointment,” one fan wrote at the music blog Stereogum.com.

“It’s not the stage hands’ fault; that stage was set up for well over an hour before Kanye decided to grace us with his presence,” wrote another attendee on VillageVoice.com. “The next time he holds that finger up and proclaims himself as #1, I hope someone tells him what he can do with that finger.”

Per festival reports, West failed to even acknowledge his tardiness.

The bad vibes carried over to Sunday’s daytime slate, when during his set pedal-steel guitar virtuoso Robert Randolph groused about West’s behavior, prompting fans to reprise the “Kanye sucks” chant.

There was no immediate comment from the West camp.

I don’t get the allure of this guy and I think it’s fanfuckingtastic that Robert Randolph was trying to start the chant back up HA!

#2

Nice.

I’ve never heard a song but I’m sure the music is lame. And his conduct was definitely lame.

#3

LOL!

#4

wow, that makes me look at Kanye a bit differently… my friends who saw him last month praised his show, but if he is gonna be cocky, push a 8 show back to 2 am then not appear until 430, he deserves to lose the industries and festie-goers respect

deplorable for an artist of such renowned caliber

#5

Anyone wonder why the show is called “Ha Ha Ha” yet the lyrics are “Ha Ha Ha Ha”?

Anyway, I actually like Kanye’s music but most rap shows are always lackluster. They just can’t reproduce the sound and crispness from the album onto a live stage…it’s really not possible…these shows always seem to end up as a bunch of guys yelling over each other into microphones. It’s not surprise that the show wasn’t that great since a large majority of rap live acts aren’t that great.

Oh well…too bad for Kanye…there should have been an announcement for sure…not sure if Kanye himself screwed up or not, but someone sure did.

Stevo

#6

yeah i saw an eminem show a few years back and the songs sounded awful in comparison to the album he was touring for, which i don’t remember.

#7

Kanye’s retort. He tries so hard you guys, give him a break. :wink: Fucking loser. Please, quit making fun of Kanye, he might actually break his macbook air, then how would you feel?

“I am sick of negative people who just sit around trying 2 plot my downfall… Why??? I understand if people don’t like me because I like me or if people think tight clothes look gay or people say I run my mouth to much, But this Bonnaroo thing is the worst insult I’ve ever had in my life. This is the most offended I’ve ever been… this is the maddest I ever will be. I’m typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!! Call me any name you want… arrogant, conceited, narcissistic, racist, metro, fag whatever you can think of… BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL! NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL! THIS SHOWS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE TO LIE ABOUT YOU AND BRING YOU DOWN! LIKE WAYNE SAYS PLEASE DON’T SHOOT ME DOWN CAUSE I’M FLYING! I’M FUCKING HURT BY THIS ONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT ARE THE FANS. JUST SAY THIS OUT LOUD IN A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE, “KANYE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT GIVING A GOOD PERFORMANCE.” CAN ANYONE HONESTLY SAY THAT ??? HAS ANYONE EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO AT LEAST DO THE MATH??? BONNAROO SHOULD HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT IN MY DEFENSE BUT SINCE THEY HAVEN’T LET’S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY OCCURRED!!! FOR OVER A MONTH WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON WETHER OR NOT WE COULD EVEN FIT MY STAGE AT THE FESTIVAL. ONE DAY THEY WOULD SAY YES… WE’D SEND THEM OUR SPECS THEN THEY THEY’D SAY OK… THEN THEY WOULD SEND SPECS BACK THAT DIDN’T FIT THE STAGE. WE WERE OBVIOUSLY DEALING WITH FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DIDN’T REALLY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REALLY PUT ON THIS SHOW PROPERLY. THEY TRIED 2 GIVE ME A TIME SLOT WERE IT WAS STILL LIGHT OUTSIDE … I HAVE A FUCKING LIGHT SHOW DUMB ASS, IT’S NOT CALLED GLOW IN THE DARK FOR NO REASON SQUID BRAINS! MY PEOPLE WORKED OUT A COMPROMISED STAGE PLOT AND A 3AM TIME SLOT AND I AGREED. FAST FOWARD TO THE DAY OF THE SHOW. MY PRODUCTION MANAGER TRIED TO LOAD IN FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE I WENT ON STAGE BUT THE FESTIVAL WOULDN’T ALLOW US TO DO ANYTHING UNTILL PEARL JAM LEFT THE STAGE. PEARL JAM ENDED ONE HOUR LATE!!! AT THAT POINT WE’RE RACING AGAINST THE SUN!!! AT 4:20AM DON COMES BACK 2 THE BUS AND TELLS ME, " IT WOULD TAKE 45 MORE MINUTES TO PUT ALL YOUR PYRO IN!” I SAY I HAVE TO GET OUT THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE . I HIT THE STAGE AND PEOPLE HAD BEEN THROWING SHIT ON THE STAGE AND HAD ACTUALLY HIT THE JANE SCREEN WITH, I GUESS BOTTLES OR SOMETHING AND HAD BROKEN MY FUCKING SCREEN. REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A SHORTY AND WATER WOULD HIT THE TV??? WHEN I GOT 2 “THROUGH THE WIRE” I STEPPED ON THE FRONT PART OF MY STAGE AND THERE WAS SO MUCH LIQUID ON THE STAGE I COULDN’T MOVE WITHOUT SLIPPING. I HAD TO ADJUST MY WHOLE PERFORMANCE STYLE BECAUSE OF IT. A FEW MORE SONGS IN AND THE SONG WAS ON IT’S WAY UP… I CUT A FEW SONGS FROM THE SET BECAUSE I WANTED PEOPLE 2 EXPERIENCE STRONGER WHILE THERE WAS STILL SOME DARKNESS TO PERFORM IT IN. I’VE STRUGGLED WITH STRONGER FROM IT’S CONCEPTION. REMEMBER LAST SUMMER WHEN I CANCELED SOME TV APPEARANCES. IT WAS BECAUSE I DIDN’T WANT TO PERFORM STRONGER IN THE DAYTIME. ANYONE WHO CAME TO THE GLOW TOUR CAN UNDERSTAND WHY I WANTED PEOPLE TO SEE IT PROPERLY. IT BROKE MY HEART THAT I COULDN’T GIVE THESE FANS STRONGER IN IT’S GREATEST FORM… BY THE TIME I GOT TO STRONGER IT WAS DAYTIME AND IT BROKE MY HEART. I’M SORRY TO EVERYONE THAT I DIDN’T HAVE THE ABILITY 2 GIVE THE PERFORMANCE I WANTED TO. I’M SORRY… SOMETIMES I GO 2, 3 DAYS W/O SLEEP WORKING ON MY PERFORMANCE… I HAVE TO ICE MY KNEES AFTER EVERY SHOW AND THEY HURT WHEN I WALK THROUGH THE AIRPORT… HAVING AN EXPENSIVE STAGE CUTS MY PAYDAY IN HALF… CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL!!!"

#8

That’s his actual response? He called someone squid brains!

#9

He didn’t give his all.

Seriously though, it is kind of hard to take him seriously when’s he’s boasting about his macbook air and he keeps saying “2” instead of “too.” If he wanted to use his lightshow so bad, he shouldn’t have played bonnaroo. Plenty of GOOD bands who play Roo and have BETTER lightshows get stuck with day slots and don’t get to use their gear, who gives a shit about Kanye? This was a great festival once, where noone had anything to bitch about, what happened?

#10

they should have all started a glowstick war pelting kanye as often as possible

#11

Yeah, the all-caps response is ridiculous. Makes him look like a five year old.

Even worse is how he said he cut a few songs so he could get to that “Stronger” song…couldn’t he have just moved his Stronger song to earlier in the show? Or is his show so automated with the DJ and turntables that he can’t even change the order if he wanted to? Either way, it looks like Kanye’s people demanded far too much of the Bonaroo people, despite it just being a fesitival setting. Most festivals I’ve been to involves the band using the same basic setup without needing hours to set up anything new…maybe Kanye should just stick with his normal tours.

Stevo