Over the weekend it was reported that Kanye West had a meltdown while back stage at SNL. Well, the audio has surfaced and while it does appear that Kanye “went off” a bit, it wasn’t nearly as catastrophic as it was made to be.
In the audio Kanye is upset that his stage was taken down before his performance. He admits to being “bummed” about the set change, as well as “Taylor Swift’s fake ass.”
Later in the audio Kanye goes off on a wild tangent about Stanley Kubrick, Apostle Paul, Pablo Picasso, Pablo Escobar and himself being 50% more influential than any other human being.. I have no idea what any of it meant, but I’m sure Kanye does. He also yells out “Don’t f*ck with me” a few times.
Kanye’s team was made aware of the audio and have already released a statement: “This audio was secretly recorded while he was venting his frustration in a private moment with his team.” The source adds that the set changes occurred 30 minutes before his performance and that he was completely blindsided by it. Even with the changes, the rapper was in good spirits. “Kanye was seen hugging Lorne Michaels just before the goodnights and he stayed afterwards to chat with the staff and the cast, and thanked the producers on his way out the door.”
Listen to the audio HERE.
