| Concert Review of Kanye West at Magness Arena on Tue Nov 29, 2005 |
| Event Date |
| Tue Nov 29, 2005 |
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| Rocky Mountain News |
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| Despite eccentricities, West passes test By Steve Knopper, Special to the News November 30, 2005 Kanye West is completely full of it. But sometimes he's not. And that's why he's a star. There was a moment during the reigning hip-hop hit-maker's boisterous, funky and sometimes weirdly paced show when he blamed the media for blowing his opinions on AIDS out of proportion. In a speech he said, West clarified: "The government created AIDS to keep the population under control. "That's why there has been no rush for a cure, and why it disproportionately affects gay men and African-Americans." "All these smarta-- reporters want to question me on this one specific line," he complained. Sorry about that, Mr. West, but you brought it up. If you hadn't made such a big deal about it, this review would have focused in far more detail on, say, Roses, a brutally honest and universal recollection of watching a grandmother die. With a stage set of just an empty hospital bed, the 28-year-old Atlanta-born rapper recalled his family's call and his rush to her side in the middle of the night. "I want to see the X-rays," he rapped. "I ain't no expert/I'm just hurt." West, a veteran Chicago producer who began his commercial ascension by hooking up with superstar Jay-Z in the late 1990s, has released two albums, including this year's smash Late Registration. He made headlines in September by ad-libbing at a New Orleans benefit telethon that "George Bush doesn't like black people." . |
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