Leno, Obama, Pink and Fiddy all dump on Kanye

September 15th, 2009

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Kanye West’s outburst has become the choice water cooler topic since Sunday’s MTV VMAs. After stealing the moment from Taylor Swift, Kanye appeared on the inaugural episode of The Jay Leno Show to apologize before performing with Jay-Z and Rihanna.

“It’s been extremely difficult… Just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away from a talented artist or from anyone, because I only wanted to help people my entire life, I’ve only wanted to give and do what I felt was right,” he told Leno.

“And I knew immediately in this situation that it was wrong. It wasn’t a spectacle, it was actually someone’s emotions that I stepped on. It was rude. Period. And I’d like to apologize to her in person.”

He also admitted when he realized what he did was wrong, which was
“As soon as I gave the mic back to her and she didn’t keep going…”

Kanye added that he now needs to straighten himself out. “After this, I need to just take some time off and analyze how I’m going to make it through the rest of this life, how I’m going to improve, because I am a celebrity and that’s just something I’m going to have to deal with.”

Leno managed to get a dig in though by asking ‘Ye what his late mother would think of his actions. West managed to both dodge the question with an unrelated answer and hold back tears.

Before Leno, though, Kanye was on his blog and posted two apologies, the first of which has since been removed.

In the second apology, Yeezy wrote: “I feel like Ben Stiller in Meet the Parents when he messed up everything and Robert DeNiro asked him to leave… That was Taylor’s moment and I had no right in any way to take it from her. I am truly sorry.”

The incident has become such a fiasco that everyone is weighing in on it – including Obama. According to NBC reporter Terry Moran, the President was overheard calling West a “jackass” during an interview with CNBC.

Plenty of other celebrities have also commented on the matter, including Katy Perry, Lauren Conrad, and Pink, who went so far as to call Kanye “the biggest piece of sh*t on earth.”

Former chart nemesis 50 Cent also gave his 2 Cents on West’s screw up when he stopped by MuchMusic yesterday. Asked what he would have done had West sabotaged his acceptance speech, Fiddy said “I’d have punched him, made his eye black, all kinds of stuff. It would have been different. He wouldn’t have gone up to say that, no.”

It’s a good thing Taylor Swift didn’t have the temper of Fiddy…

Tags: 50 cent, jay leno, Kanye West, obama, Pink, taylor swift