Kanye West likes to speak his mind onstage, and sometimes that gets him in trouble. His recent rant at the Life is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas was surprisingly restrained, however.
"This is the part that gets me in trouble," the rapper said last night (October 24) during his set, Billboard reports. "Everybody has a right to their own opinion, so why do I get in trouble for speaking mine? It just makes me feel like the media doesn't want anybody to express no real motherf--king opinions."
West went on to explain how the media paints him as a villain. "I think I'm just lazy," he said. "When you have to put up some kind of facade, you have to think a lot about what the lie is. Fuck that, I'd just rather tell the truth. But the media wants you to think I'm a bad guy. Like bad in the same way as people who kill other people."
Despite all the constant criticism, the rapper said that he's in a good place right now. "Y'all just have to understand how happy I am right now in all actuality," West said. "I'm just happy to see my daughter's first smile and how happy I am to see my beautiful wife, who is here with me, and we're going to celebrate her birthday again at Tao tonight."
Last month, Yeezy was attempting to rev-up an audience in Austrailia when he told fans to stand up, making an exclusion for the handicapped. Outlets picked up the story, reporting that West was harassing a person in a wheelchair. Fan-shot footage showed that the incident was more of a misunderstanding.
