Kanye West On Obama Jackass Remark
Days after Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at last year’s MTV Awards, President Barack Obama called Yeezy a “jackass”. Over a year later, Ye reacts to the Commander-In-Chief’s quip in the new issue of XXL.
When Obama called me “jackass”, after the Taylor incident, I thought that the person who taped that wasn’t supposed to tape it. Obama was supposed to be speaking off the record. Obama has way more important stuff to worry about than my public perception. He was trying to pass the healthcare bill. And if he said that to relate to the room or lighten the room up and the whole mood, then I’d be more than happy to be the butt of all of his jokes if it in the some way helps his overall mission. I’m a soldier of culture. I’m resilient. I’m sure I’ll still beat him in basketball.
first…….. fuck obama n da whole cabinet, tellem yeezy said………. u know da rest
Kanye is a true jackass though. Sure some of his music is good, but the man is a jackass!
FUCK YOU KANYE WEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!!! I’M SURE YOUR MOM HATES WHAT YOU’VE BECOME!!!!!! BITCH!!!!!!!
OBAMA IS A GREAT HUMAN BEING, YOU ARE JUST A PIECE OF SHIT!! YOU ARE USING GHOSTWRITERS & GHOSTPRODUCER, YOU ARE A FRAUD JUST LIKE RICK ROSS!!
POWER FLOPPED, RUNAWAY IS A WACK, THE ALBUM WILL FLOP!!!!
SLUT, HOE= YEEZER THE FLOPPER
YOUR LIFE IS A FLOP, 37 BUT STILL HAS NO KID, NO WIFE!!!!!!!!
BITCH. YOU WILL FLOP HARDER THAN FLOP ME LATER.
IF YOU ARE BLACK & YOU STILL CO SIGN THIS BITCH, YOU HAVE NO SELF ESTEEM!!!
“LEONARDO IS A BRAND NAME, LEONARDO IS A LEGEND, LEONARDO IS THE ILLEST”
@Kanye
Dont sleep on my nigga Obeezy. That man can HOOP!
Yeezy my Negro. U got that right. Obama donkey face need to fallbk..he got more shit to worry abt than urban culture. We the soldiers of the culture will fight it. Go take ur daughters to soccer practice and stop being the butt of jokes when leaders of the world meet. Chucch!!
KILLUMINATI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like the new ‘enlightened’ Ye’, But I don’t want him to lose All his Jackassness (I made that up). We need that sometime in HipHop.
Thank you Kanye for being in on the joke. I’m a fan of the site, but some of the commenters here are completely out of their respective minds. Sad.
@LEONARDO,
Seriously? Ghostwriters and ghostproducers? Where’s your proof?
Rhymefest claims Kanye writes his shit and alot of rappers have seen him write his lyrics…and Kanye started out as a producer before he got signed on as a rapper…Infact Kanye ghostproduced tracks for other people…
@LEONARDO
Damn, that comment about his mother was uncalled for. Thats really messed up man.
@Leonardo
“LEONARDO IS A BRAND NAME, LEONARDO IS A LEGEND, LEONARDO IS THE ILLEST”……
Leonardo just straight up wack.
Kanye is God in the game right now.–How did power flop?-it never even had a entire video and its been the highest rotated single in hip hop and being used for Movies and shit–Runaway is the dopest song this year. This Leonardo cat is a joke-no knowledge-clown–Kanye has NEVER FLOPPED-even 808s went platinum+–joker ass cat—the dude has dropped a single every friday for 2 months–he has the world in his hand. duh
lol yall actually give these guys who leave comments attention? haha
i’ve seen a bunch of clowns in this comment section fighting for attention, saying the most out of context shit.
Lol i thought the samething last year when i saw them ask Obama and he answered. I think it say’s more about this generation then anything, y’all want a president that’s cool and young and hip when all the while America is currently so fucked with a reccesion, foreclosure, stock market crash and the big homie of the free world is talking about the Vma’s lol…so ya i think it’s funny to ‘Ye
POWER IS THE HIGHEST ROTATED SINGLE IN HIP HOP??? proof??
And a song being used in movies…wow….like that counts for much. Pretty sure “Not Afraid” was used in “The Town” Preview and that song was mediocre.
@ULTRAKID
KID CUDI SAID TO COMPLEX THAT HE HAS GHOSTWRITE SHIT ON 808S BUT THAT HE WASN’T ALLOWED TO SAY WICH TRACK HE DID.
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THIS BITCH GOT A WHOLE TEAM OF GHOSTWRITERS (RYHMEFEST, BIG SEAN, CONSEQUENCE, MR. HUDSON, KID CUDI, COMMON, PUSHA T, CY DA PRINCE…)
@WORD
KANYE’S MOM WAS AN AWARE WOMAN. SHE IS CONNECTED TOBLACK PANTHERS, KANYE IS NAMED AFTER THIS SHIT!!! SHE WOULD BE PROUD OF THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT. PLUS IF SHE WERE STILL ALIVE, SHE WOULDN’T ALLOWED KANYE TO GO OUT WITH A BALD STRIPPER. KANYE IS NOW JUST THE DEFINITION OF A GAY FISH.
@ACTUAL FACT
POWER IS AN EPIC FLOP. SHIT IS #75 ON BILLBOARD. STRONGER WAS #1, SLOW JAMS WAS #1 & EVEN LOVE LOCKDOWN WAS #2!!! POWER IS CERTIFIED PLASTIC. KANYE WILL LIVE THE BIGGEST FLOP OF HIS WACKY LIFE.
@MARMADUKE
NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP BITCH. YOU ARE GAY AS FUCK & YOUR SCREEN NAME IS WACKER THAN THAT SEE ME NOW TRACK. LMAO!
“LEONARDO IS A BRAND NAME, LEONARDO IS A LEGEND, LEONARDO IS THE ILLEST”
@kanyes mad late ..he should shut the fuck up
Maybe Obama called him a jackass cuz he acted like one. It wasn’t playin to the room.. it was tellin the truth.. Nigga was outta line at the VMAs last yr point blank. Don’t try to defend it just because you don’t know or like Taylor Swift. If that was your sister or mother up there and this knucklehead ruined her moment you woulda been lookin for that ass backstage straight up.
Tired of hip-hop defending the ignorant part of the culture.. you can love hip hop and still use your brain. Quit celebrating this childish behavior.. time to get yo grown man on Kanye.
Learn to separate the music from the man.
You can love Power.. and still check Ye for doing dumb shit.
“I’m sure i can beat him in basketball” sure kanye you couldn’t even put the ball between your legs with them Leggings on use a bitch!
leonardo is hourus the one trick euro pony.
Fair enough @meantstreets… but to all the things the whitehouse and government as a whole say’s no comment to, you don’t see how odd it is that he’s calling an entertainer a jackass which by the way it was a jackass move…funny though
Attention Kanye West. YOU ARE A JACKASS FOR THAT.
There was no levity in what the president said, he was speaking as a grown man, and what you did to that girl can only be explained by you being a self absorbed, self rightous immature asshole. Deal with it, then deal with yourself. Become a better man and not a bitter boy, because no matter how much money you got, and how many fans you have, your actions speak louder then your words, and you sir, are a complete piece of shit.
I like the fact that Kanye thinks Obama didn’t mean it. As if he just said it too lighten up the room. Kanye is straight naïve and delusional like that junkie rapper being release from prison. Also I like the fact that mos def stood quiet when this happen, but when leno brought up his mom in that interview, dude went off!
kanye sucks… and he is a jackass
yea Kanye will beat him in NBA 2k11
im with kanye on this it wasnt suppose to be getting taped and it made Obama look more of a jaccass then kanye we got all this shit going in the world and this nigga talking bout an award show its just shows niggas that the camera is always on you whether its in a Korean liquor store or behind the scenes of a national news network if i was obama i would sit in my dressing room until it was time for me to get interviewed since that little episode
Man fuck this. Get DMX to speak on BARACK again. Lmao. Top50 Funniest responses of all time.
Fuck em both to jackasses never really liked yeezy but he drop a nice track i Like once in a while
FUCK KANYE GAY FISH NIGGA +FUCK OBAMA +FUCK AMERICA
Al the way from Holland, all i can say is.
Hahahaha
That was a very stupid move Kanye
Hope to hear the new album soon
you stay classy kanye.
me likie.
Whats done is done…. They say let sleeping dogs lie…
On the record or off the record. He still called him a jackass.
Which he truly is. And what the fuck, he’s going to defend himself saying he could still beat ‘bama at basketball, fuck dude, get real, kill yo’ self.
@ All Kanye Lovers
Kanye got mad booed in yankee stadium. he got no love. people where there to see jay and em, not a gayfish.
‘cmon kanye, how come u didnt go in on Obama? thats ur brother. same skin tone. why dont u acknowledge the fact that obama has fucked up the world. worse than bush??? i thought u were real, instead ur a fake, a phony, a stan. gucci this, louie that. u came into the world with an amazing debut album, a solid follow up album only to sell yourself out and grow into one of the most hated, egotistical maniacs around.
Haha. I like Obama, he a good dude and a good president. He should be prime minister over here when he retire, lol.
Kanye and Obama both from Chicago…and Obama did play basketball in high school…
Anyway, good to see Ye being a good sport.
I don’t know what to say about it when he said those words about Kanye. Some times it’s good to think before you speak.
Why would Ye be insulted anyways?
Kanye’s the first person to tell you he’s a jackass.
Fuck Obama! His black ass will rot in hell!
TRANSLATION: I STILL FEEL LIKE A TOTAL DICK WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA CALLED ME A JACKASS. I’M STILL EMBARRASSED BY THE WHOLE THING. HENCE THE EXCUSES I’M MAKING AS TO WHY HE CALLED ME A JACKASS
….RIGHT KANYE? HA!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!
“”POWER IS AN EPIC FLOP. SHIT IS #75 ON BILLBOARD. STRONGER WAS #1, SLOW JAMS WAS #1 & EVEN LOVE LOCKDOWN WAS #2!!! POWER IS CERTIFIED PLASTIC. KANYE WILL LIVE THE BIGGEST FLOP OF HIS WACKY LIFE.””
Good point, I laughed at certified plastic.
Ive always loved kanye, I bought all his cd’s, but his new album is just wack.
Kanye West is falling off, no doubt about it. All his new tracks are gospel inspired god-loving garbage. Some of them are catchy, I like power and runaway (live only), but he has no hits anymore. He needs to get off the radar and just produce, live his personal life and stop making public comments. He definitely shuldnt have dissed obama, he should have embraced the fact that YES he acted like a jackass. Holy shit yeezy cut your ego down, its rubbing off on cool niggas like cudi because now cudis falling off too with his wack ass huge ego.
good music is falling and it sucks because i love those niggas
well played yeezy
Kant’s I know whatz it be like to be good at a craft and something like what you feel kills the zeal In some keep your head up these people are all fans just shocked at certain events all of them had Bob their heads saying yo son this track hard so my best advice as a poet and your fan keep your head u up its important to me to stay inspired by great music thanked Kanye west
President Barack Obama yesterday labelled Kanye West a “jackass” after the rapper’s outburst at the MTV awards.