Mar 5, 2015

“That was sarcasm at its finest, right?” he exclaims to me.

It all started on the crapper. Connelly, a 44-year-old systems analyst in South Carolina, was watching the Grammys with his wife when he had to relieve himself, so he went to the bathroom. Being the “geeky guy” that he is, he had a tablet set up on the wall, and observed Kanye’s stage-crashing stunt with Beck after the latter received the Best Album of the Year Grammy.

“Watching that man bully Taylor Swift on national television? That was horrible,” says Connelly. “And watching it happen a second time at the Grammys, I thought it was a scripted part of the show. When I realized it wasn’t, I was like, ‘Oh, this MFer.’”

He hadn’t logged in to www.loser.com in quite some time, so he decided it was as good a time as any—especially given that Beck’s most famous song is titled “Loser.” So, Connelly logged in to the site but found that the architecture had changed a bit. A tech support window popped up, and he typed out that he wanted to send www.loser.com to Kanye’s Wikipedia page. The tech support people were very enthused.

“The tech support guy said, ‘Give me five minutes—we’ll make this happen. This needs to happen,’” Connelly recalls. “And at one point it was taking a while so I said, ‘Oh, I’ll just not do it,’ and the guy on the other line said, ‘No! Don’t give up! You can’t give up!’”

After it posted and went viral, Connelly received an email from a Hotmail account that claimed to be from Kanye himself. “It said something to the effect of, ‘I’m a good guy, and I’m just making music to make people feel better, and what you’re doing isn’t right. You’ve had your five minutes, now please correct it,’” says Connelly.

The Kanye West redirect has a bit of a backstory, and was definitely intended as a burn.

Connelly says that he has a pair of teenage daughters, one of which is 16 and is “fascinated by pop culture.” He adds, “She likes the one that was trying to break the Internet, Kim Kardashian, and we’re big music appreciators in our family. My wife blares out Kanye stuff all the time.”

While his wife is on Team Kanye, Connelly is decidedly not—and it mostly goes back to a bad experience he had watching Kanye perform at last year’s Bonnaroo.

“I went to Bonnaroo last year and Kanye got up onstage and just started bitching at the audience because I think someone had spray painted ‘f--- Kanye’ on a porta-potty or something,” says Connelly. “Then he started yelling, ‘Where the press at? Point out the press!’ and started going crazy and yelling at everybody about how they didn’t respect his genius. Then, he started naming names of people he should be compared to—George Washington, Henry Ford, etc. My wife was really enjoying it, but I wasn’t. We’re a paying audience showing him respect, and he launches into us with this egocentric f---ing bs rant, and it was insane.”

He pauses. “And he didn’t even play ‘Gold Digger.’”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...om-owner-brian-connelly-on-shaming-kanye.html

 

Mar 5, 2015

So this guy got an email from a random hotmail that claimed to be Kanye, but has no proof?

 

Mar 5, 2015

Lmao f---ing casual didn't expect a Kanye rant at a Kanye show