Kanye West Bans Himself From MTV
- Posted on Sep 10th 2007 3:00PM by David Sprague
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A goodly number of Kanye West's peers have managed to get themselves banned from the airwaves for acts ranging from excessive praise of recreational drugs to the sort of four-letter-word abuse usually associated with Elton John looking for a misplaced hairpiece. The preppily-dressed rapper, however, has never been able to get himself metaphorically escorted out of the hallowed halls of MTV -- a situation he's remedying by announcing his intent to ban himself from the network. West threw his tantrum -- er, we mean "made his decision" -- after being confronted with the news that Britney Spears would be opening the VMAs, and, more significantly, that he wouldn't be. While we can't help but think the executives who made the choice that so offended Kanye are wishing they'd have seen things his way -- from where we sit, he'd probably even have looked a little better in that bikini thing than she did -- we're hoping they don't take the rapper's self-exclusion doctrine at face value. After all, if he were really, really angry, he'd have told the American public that "MTV doesn't care about people who wear sweater vests."




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