Possibly the best one-note internet joke to emerge from the Kanye VMA incident.
Above, BoingBoing.net after receiving the kanyelicio.us treatment. (Via @GreatDismal)
Related reading, on a more sober note: "It's Kanye's Fault," by Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic: "It's virtually impossible to be a black person and believe that Americans were somehow more humble in the past. Our very existence springs from an act of immodesty."
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And because the Internet loves meta, I've seen Patrick Swayze interrupted by Kanye interrupted by Xzibit interrupted by the squirrel.
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#1: I demand a link! :p
'I'm gonna' is more syllables than he actually said.
"Imma lechu" is perhaps closer to the actual statement.
Probably needs to be written in all-caps for greater Kanye accuracy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic: "It's virtually impossible to be a black person and believe that Americans were somehow more humble in the past. Our very existence springs from an act of immodesty."
This is shameful and ignorant.
Anyone who has read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin will realize that people may not have always been modest - Franklin complains of disreputables and drunks - but that humility, modesty, social grace and *virtue* (in the classical sense of that term) held place as necessary and worthy of approbation in public discourse. That has starkly disappeared.
I would challenge anyone who claims otherwise, or who claims this is a racial thing, to alight from their 21st century entitled, post-civil rights perch and read the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Douglas lived the better part of his life in vile servitude and emerged the paragon of modesty, humility and virtue. He did not gain fame, and societal acceptance, from his spoiled tantrums; he helped end one of the worst episodes in history precisely with his humility, modesty and integrity.
If a debased slave can be a model for the height of refinement, courage, and modesty - surely one of the wealthiest and most privileged people in American can exhibit even a sliver of such restraint. It is reprehensible and a mark of ill-education to say otherwise.
As to Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic
I don't think that people are any more humble then they where in the past. We are simple in a post communication revolution era. In the past you had to be a person of true power to self promote on a global scale. It involved the building of great monuments such as the pyramids. There was no TV or internet. Now in our post communication revolution era you can become a globle self promoter with a few minutes of work on the computer. You can even self promote completely by accident. Look at the numa numa guy.
As far as the quote about a black person being unable to believe that Americans were more humble in the past. I am not sure what the author is truly tying to say. It sounds like justification for a black person to act in the most un-humble ways they can come up with because being immodest in the past help to win black people equal rights. I think there is a big difference between the immodest acts of the civil rights movement and making an ass of your self to get attention.
Sorry to interrupt you there IANM, and I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce HAS ONE OF THE BEST COMMENTS OF ALL TIME!
This is, awesomely, turning into a meme.
Here are three more examples:
http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/shaq.jpg
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/IHXuVUO8_Zgl.jpg
http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/DKg-ZAem6nbl.jpg
Who can forget this one? Not even hobos are safe from Kanye's wrath.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/3922355244/
I think his behavior is the result of too much chronic and too much of some legally-prescribed medication.
It always seems like a good idea at the time, and then later comes remorse and apologies.
No, the thing about Kanye is that there is no remorse or apologies. He did this before at the 2006 European Music Awards.
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Excuse me, Teresa, this disemvowelling is pretty good, and I'm going to let you finish it, but Beyonce's disemvowelling is the best vowel removal of all time!
Who's Kayne West?
@15 glib909:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Kayne+West
#15
That is nobody.
We's all talkin' about Kanye West.
Ad agency in new zealand jumping on it:
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Best use of it evar:
http://kanyelicio.us/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
I think Obama's comment may have been one of the best things he's done for this country. There has to be a point where we say "I don't care where you grew up, what race you are, or how much money you have/don't have - this is just unacceptable." This glorification of ignorant thugs is poisonous and the african-american community is bearing the brunt of it.
My two cents, anyway.
I thought Kanye West was a city in the south pacific.
I hope Kanye doesn't show up to Patrick Swayze's funeral...
i'll let you get back to your funeral in a minute...but michael jackson had the best death of the year. best of the year! just sayinnn