STFU Kanye. Nobody Cares What You Think

Everyone is talking about Kanye West crapping all over Beck’s Grammy so I might as well throw in my two cents. Buzzfeed has an amazing list explaining why Beck was more deserving of the Grammy than Beyonce this year and I especially agree with points 1, 3, and 4. Beck’s album has better lyrics, he wrote them all himself, and he played an insane amount of instruments on his album. I found the album to be a little sleepy in sound but the amount of work he put into is remarkable.

What gives Kanye West the right to decide who is and is not deserving of awards? He has no idea what goes into these awards and how these decisions are made. All he knows is his friend isn’t getting the props he thinks she deserves. I doubt he wants to know anymore. If the world is not the way he thinks it should be, it’s wrong.

Does West make good music? Sure. It’s not my favorite but he’s good at what he does. Does that give him the authority to take things away from Taylor Swift and Beck neither of whom he knows? Absolutely not. Honestly, I know someone a lot like him. He thinks he knows better than everyone else, isn’t interested in facts that might alter his point of view, and doesn’t realize that he’s not that goddman special. I think very little of this person just like I think very little of West.

We need to stop tolerating behavior like this because that person is famous, skilled, or to avoid the ensuing drama of informing them their shit does, in fact, stink. Man-children like this aren’t going to get better or stop making everyone’s life difficult until we put them in a time out and make them think about why they’re really not that much better than the rest of us.