I used to be on the Tremendous Bowl in Los Angeles when the large jumbotron screens beamed onto a male spectator clad in a grey hoodie with a black mask covering his entire face.
He stood out as a result of a) he regarded bloody ridiculous, b) it was boiling scorching and c) virtually no person else in all the star-studded Sofi Stadium was sporting a masks of any sort, making a mockery of LA County’s absurd continued insistence on youngsters having to take action in school.
Even by Hollywood requirements, this was outrageously embarrassing attention-seeking made worse by the very fact two of his younger youngsters have been sat subsequent to him.
In fact, all of us knew who it was.
Solely Kanye West – or ‘Ye’ as he calls himself – would willingly make such an idiotic spectacle of himself at America’s largest annual televised occasion.
Nevertheless it’s what occurred subsequent that actually struck me.
The group, who’d been raucously cheering each well-known face that appeared on display, all of the sudden started booing and jeering.
I’m proud to confess I used to be one in every of them, as a result of if anybody deserves such an outpouring of public disapproval proper now, it’s certainly this narcissistic jumped-up buffoon?
There was once a time when Kanye’s bizarre and provocative antics have been humorous.
I keep in mind laughing out loud when he charged the stage on the 2009 VMAs to precise his fury that Taylor Swift had gained the Greatest Feminine Video award, and never his good friend Beyoncé – incomes himself the moniker of ‘Jackass’ from then President Obama.
It was amusing as a result of he was proper; Beyoncé ought to have gained it that yr.
Sadly, in recent times, Kanye’s change into a sneering, snarling, shambolic shock-jock and none of it makes me chuckle.
When he tweeted ‘BILL COSBY IS INNOCENT!!!!’, I felt repulsed at his tone-deaf defense of a serial rapist.
Simply as I used to be disgusted when he announced that slavery was ‘a alternative’, suggesting these poor oppressed souls who have been so brutally abused and persecuted may have completed one thing about it if solely they’d been as sturdy as him.
Nevertheless it’s on the subject of his private relationships, and the way in which he consistently drags harmless youngsters into his feuds, that Kanye’s revealed to the world what a nasty piece of labor he actually is beneath the ‘mad lovable genius’ persona.
We noticed it a number of years in the past when he shamefully taunted Wiz Khalifa that the rapper’s two-year-old son Sebastian solely existed as a result of he’d break up from the mom, Amber Rose. ‘You wouldn’t have a baby if it wasn’t for me,’ mocked Kanye. ‘I personal your youngster!!’
Then we noticed it once more throughout his absurd presidential run in 2020 – the one the place his ego assured him the adoring public would stampede polling stations to put in him into the White Home, however the place actuality got here within the type of a paltry 70,296 votes – when he revealed he and his spouse Kim Kardashian had spent months deliberating whether or not to abort their firstborn youngster, North.
(Simply think about how she’ll really feel when she reads that?)
Now, since their bitterly acrimonious break-up and cruel ongoing divorce battle, we’re seeing the total vary of Kanye’s horribly egocentric and albeit, vile character – and it stinks so pungently {that a} Tremendous Bowl booing must be the least of his punishments.
Up to now few weeks alone, he’s accused Kim of ‘kidnapping’ another of their daughters, Chicago, and attacked her for placing North on TikTok ‘towards my will’ as if someway that’s extra damaging than him saying he thought of having her aborted.
Yesterday, he launched a livid Instagram onslaught towards Kim’s new boyfriend, comic Pete Davidson, branding him a ‘d*ckhead’, accusing him of getting an affair with Hillary Clinton (factcheck: he didn’t), and repeating merciless unsubstantiated slurs that Davidson despatched intimate pictures to Ariana Grande to finish her romance with Mac Miller earlier than he tragically died from a drug overdose.
Kanye even posted a non-public textual content message which Davidson despatched him that learn: ‘…as a person I’d by no means get in the way in which of your youngsters. That’s a promise. The way you guys go about elevating your youngsters is what you are promoting and never mine. I do hope [some] day I can meet them and we are able to all be pals.’
A well mannered entreaty to which Kanye responded by gracelessly spitting again, ‘No you’ll by no means meet my youngsters’, and calling Davidson ‘rubbish’ and ‘trash.’
All of it is a excellent template in how to not behave whenever you’re getting divorced.
Rule One is that defending the children comes first, however Kanye West doesn’t care about guidelines, he solely cares about Kanye West, and if which means utilizing his youngsters as battering rams towards their mom or abusing her new man when he tries to make peace for his or her profit, then so be it.
The Tremendous Bowl crowd, together with me, booed him yesterday as a result of all of us now see proper via his exhaustingly pathetic conduct and sickening hypocrisy.
Kanye West’s undeniably a superb musician.
However on the subject of being an excellent father, an excellent husband, or only a good human being, he’s uncovered himself to be the very factor he branded Pete Davidson: a d-ckhead.
