Kanye West's mistake at his Melbourne concert in Australia was viewed all over the world this weekend after he instructed a few audience members to stand up.
After the rapper noticed that some of the fans were handicapped, including a few in wheelchairs, Kanye continued with the show.
While some fans claimed that the incident was a mere misunderstanding, the story was later twisted through social media.
During his final show in Australia Sunday night, Kanye spoke about the wheelchair incident and slammed the media for focusing on the events at his concert, instead of the worldly issues like ISIS and the crime in Chicago.
"Hey Mike, stop the piano, turn the auto tune off, turn your camera phones off.... what I want you to do is just run the video that everyone's talking about where I so called scream at somebody and everything. I want you to run that right since this is such big media press news and obvious shit where you try to demonize people. It's like, "Welcome to today's news ladies and gentlemen, we got Americans getting killed on TV, kids getting killed every weekend in Chicago, we have unarmed people being killed by police officers, and we have Kanye West buying ice cream—and also that squirrel can jet ski."
Kanye continued and blames the media for making him into a bully.
"You know it makes you just WANT TO reflect on the things that are a little more sensationalized than others," he said. "I want to take this platform. If I didn't have this last concert maybe I would have tweeted or something. Maybe I would have put a statement with a publicist, but I can talk directly to you, my fans, because they got this thing where they want the masses, the people who have never even heard one of my albums to somehow read a headline that reads negative and to think I'm a bad person or something. But the thing is, I'm not judging anybody, but I'm going to tell you who I am: I'm a married Christian man."
He also says that his music is made to inspire, and has made people feel better about themselves.
"If you take someone that can go from being a rock star across the globe, pick one woman, raise a family which anyone that is here that is married or is in a relationship knows that there is enough things working against you," he said. "What I'm saying is, you've got like 12 years that we've put in positive music. How many people here ever heard one of my songs on their way to work or they heard it and it made them feel better? And in these songs that made them feel better, don't I say offensive shit here and there? Oh so wait a second, that's like my brand. I curse and I say like really offensive—wait a second—that's why when I did "Runaway" earlier I said, "I sent this b*** a picture of my d***" what did ya'll think when you heard that? It's not G rated. It's rap f****** music. It's real music. it's real expression. This is real artistry."
Check out his full speech above.
Source: YouTube | Photo Credit: Splash News
