Kanye West releases statement about censorship at BBMA

[Morphine Prince 101,684]

"Kanye West was grossly over-censored at the Billboard Music Awards," the statement reads. "Non-profane lyrics such as 'with my leather black jeans on' were muted for over 30-second intervals. As a result, his voice and performance were seriously misrepresented. 

"It is ridiculous that in 2015, unwarranted censorship is something that artists still have to fight against. Although West was clearly set up to face elements beyond his control during the live broadcast, he would like to apologize to the television audience who were unable to enjoy the performance the way he envisioned."

Source: http://www.people.com/people/mobile/article/0,,20924560,00.html

[Blue Jeans 3,815]

European Tv would never

 

[Haroon 49,685]

It was a live broadcast so I'm not surprised, the same thing happened at the BRITs which made his performance look ridiculous  Maybe they should air them 10-15mins after they happen so the editors have time to censor stuff correctly  

[HausOfNena 1,712]

I keep reading BBMA as BBHMM/Bitch Better Have My Money. Tragic. 

OT: Ok. Sucks for him I guess.  

[darkchylde 14,857]

Americans and their censorship. How is it offensive to say words like "f*ck" or "ass" on a country like the United States... It makes no sense.

[OBEY 57,109]

poor him,
i guess

[xoxo cupcakke 4,781]

Americans and their censorship. How is it offensive to say words like "f*ck" or "ass" on a country like the United States... It makes no sense.

Exactly but America does love its violence in movies and s-x on TV 

OT: He performed Black Skinhead at the BBMA?

[Bat 6,162]

Poor thing.

 

Though I don't understand why rappers need to use words like f.ck, b.tch, c/nt or whatever in like every sentence. Like where is ur knowledge of more profound words.

[Illuminati 15,750]

Americans and their censorship. How is it offensive to say words like "f*ck" or "ass" on a country like the United States... It makes no sense.

​its not just US though. Television has a wide age variety audience and streaming explicit language just happens to have negative effect on younger audience. 

[Sugarfall 3,723]

Why can't he just perform the clean version on TV to avoid this like Nicki does?

[Creyk 16,949]

Poor thing.

 

Though I don't understand why rappers need to use words like f.ck, b.tch, c/nt or whatever in like every sentence. Like where is ur knowledge of more profound words.

​rappers depend on appearing "powerful" and "edgy" 

[Creyk 16,949]

Why can't he just perform the clean version on TV to avoid this like Nicki does?

​because that would be compromising his artistic integrity 

[Vernier 3,786]

That was tame, I was expecting a full on "Ima let you finish..." level of rant.

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

So he was Four Five seconds from censorship, or more than that.

 

[Yanko 9,860]

Poor thing.

 

Though I don't understand why rappers need to use words like f.ck, b.tch, c/nt or whatever in like every sentence. Like where is ur knowledge of more profound words.

​they are expressing their anger with those words

(most of the time)