Kanye West could blame chugging a bottle of Hennessy on the red carpet and while making his way to his front row seat at MTV’s Video Music Awards for his outburst that interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for best female video.
But instead the rapper blamed his public outburst on pain from his mother’s death nearly two years ago.
At first, I bought Kanye’s apology on the season-premiere of the Jay Leno Show on Monday night because the rapper admitted to his rudeness and almost broke down when Jay asked him what his deceased mother would have said about him grabbing the mike from Taylor to make a case for Beyonce winning the award instead.
Kanye said his mother would not have approved of his behavior, and he said he probably needed some time off to properly grieve his mom’s death and to work on improving his attitude.
But after further thought about the rapper’s apology, I feel that Kanye shouldn’t be allowed to hide behind his mother, especially when his previous behavior is evaluated.
This is not the first time Kanye, a spoiled only child, has put his foot in his mouth or entered the stage to contest an award.
In fact, a few months before his mother died from botched cosmetic surgery, he went on a backstage VMA tirade, saying MTV is racist for allowing Britney Spears to perform to open the 2007 awards show, and he said he would have been a much better choice than Britney, who received poor reviews for her performance. And a year earlier, he declared that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” in reaction to the then-president’s response to Hurricane Katrina. That same year, he went onstage at the MTV Europe Music Awards to contest that he should have received the best video award for “Touch the Sky.”
Kanye just needs to grow up and stop being a whiny momma’s boy when others don’t behave as he would like, especially when his mother is no longer around to offer a shoulder to cry on.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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