Kanye West Booed At Dodgers Game
Kanye West, the 36-year-old rapper and boyfriend to reality television star Kim Kardahian, was recently booed at a Dodger's game where fans welcomed other entertainers.
While singer Robin Thicke and retired baseball player Robert Horry received cheers from the crowd when appearing on the jumbotron at the Dodger Stadium, West did not. Arash Marzaki, an ESPN correspondent, tweeted about the matter.
"Kanye West was just shown on the jumbotron at Dodger Stadium and booed. Kanye West just got moved to second row seats near the Mets dugout. #KanyeWatch," Marzaki tweeted.
"Robert Horry is at the Dodgers game and gets a loud ovation. Sorry, Kanye. Robin Thicke is at the Dodgers game too and gets a loud ovation."
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However, Us Weekly reported that West took the boos in stride. He attended the game with Rob Kardashian, his girlfriend's brother and smiled during his outing.
Some people believe West has been demonized as of late.
Malik Yusef, the co-writer for West's hit song "Mercy," thinks West is being unfairly judged.
"People over scrutinize Kanye because of the amount of energy he puts out, but we don't scrutinize any other group of people not even a person as much as we scrutinize Kanye West," Yusef told HipHollywood.com earlier this summer.
The co-writer went on to say that his rapper friend has been demonized publicly.
"Kanye gets demonized for saying what we all say and what we all do and think in our living rooms," Yusef told HipHollywood.com. "It's amazing to me how people can be so small minded and shallow when it comes to things that they choose not to embrace."
West made it clear that he is not concerned about what people think about him or his artistic direction. The rapper let it be known that he is no longer interested in attaining mainstream success.
"You know with this album, we ain't drop no single for radio. We ain't got no big NBA campaign or nothing like that. (Expletive), we ain't even got no cover," West revealed to the audience at Governor's Ball Music festival during his 36th birthday weekend. "Honestly at this point when I listen to radio, that ain't where I wanna be no more."
West also revealed that he was not interested in outside opinions concerning his latest body of work.
"Honestly at this point, I could give a (expletive) about selling a million records as long as I can put out an album for the summer that y'all can rock to all (expletive) summer," he told his audience at the music festival. "At this point, I don't really give a (expletive) about outside opinions."
