Kanye West had a few things to get off his chest when he took the stage on Wednesday night at New York's Roseland Ballroom as the featured entertainment for the Adult Swim upfronts.
The rapper used his hour-long performance to half-sing, half-shout exactly what was on his mind. Complex magazine described West's performance as "an expletive-filled tirade."
"One thing about me, I'm the worst kinda celebrity because all I do is make real music. All I do is sit in the studio and make real, real sh--. And that's it," West said. "That's mother----ing it. That's mother----ing it. So I don't want nobody trying to run up on me with no cameras, trying to sell pictures and sh-- to magazines, asking me no dumbass questions, throwing me off of my focus and sh--," he continued. "Harassing you all mother----ing day. I ain't no mother----ing celebrity."
Over the last week, paparazzi seem to have been getting under the rapper's skin. He was photographed walking into a street sign trying to escape the paparazzi and TMZ snapped away as a driver crashed west's Lamborghini into Kim Kardashian's gate after the car had just been detailed.
West is supposed to perform during the "Saturday Night Live" season finale. While on stage he told fans that a friend had asked the star whether he planned to do a skit on SNL about the paparazzi and "humanize" himself. The rapper responded that he doesn't need to apologize to anyone and it's not about humanizing himself.
"At what point did I become unhuman where I haad to turn myself back? Or maybe I was demonized. Or maybe I was treated inhumane and not human in that kind of situation," he told the crowd. "Hell naw, I ain't doing no mother---ing SNL skit."
NME.com reports that West did perform a new song in between his rants.
