Kanye West on Wheelchair Incident: 'Pick a New Target'
Kanye West is tired of being picked on.
The rapper said he's being unfairly "demonized" by the media after he made headlines for reportedly demanding that one of his concert-goers in a wheelchair stand up.
A video from the concert last Friday in Sydney, Australia, actually shows the rapper urging the entire audience onto its feet for "Good Life."
"I can't do this show until everybody stand up," the rapper is heard saying, "unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and s***."
When only a single fan remained seated, the crowd began booing and chanting, "Stand up," until West sent his bodyguard to investigate that, yes, the person was in a wheelchair.
Without apology, he went on to perform.
Despite the backlash that followed, his wife, Kim Kardashian, doesn't think her husband has anything to apologize for.
Along with a clip she posted on Instagram from his concert Monday night, she wrote, "What an amazing Australian tour! Its frustrating that something so awesome could be clouded by lies in the media. Kanye never asked anyone in a wheel chair to stand up & the audience videos show that. He asked for everyone to stand up & dance UNLESS they were in a wheel chair. #JustWantedEveryoneToHaveAFunNight #TheMediaTwistsThings."
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West defended himself at Monday's show in Brisbane, Australia, according to a video from the concert.
After calling out morning talk show hosts for making the incident into "such big media-press-news," he admonished them to "take a step back and look at this."
He added, "I'm a married Christian man with a family. At my concerts, I make sure everybody has as good a time as possible. So all this demonizing me, it ain't going to work after a while. Pick a new target. Pick a new target. Because I'm not one of these dumb*** artists that you're used to. You come at me, I'm going to take my platform and break this s*** down for real, intelligent people every night. And then, we'll get back to the music."