mogul, Piers Morgan , took his time out to extensively
pen down a letter to Kanye West .
Take your time to read his open letter… he really did
some blasting though.
Dear Kanye,
You’ve got a new album out, and need to
promote it by shouting off your legendarily
loud mouth.
I get it.
Only this can possibly explain your recent
behaviour, which has been ridiculously
offensive even by your standards.I’ve been a
long-time admirer of yours. I think you’re a
brilliantly talented musician and one of the
great characters of the global entertainment
industry.
You’re controversial, polarising, and speak
your mind. Nothing wrong with that, I’m
exactly the same.
But there’s a fine line between being
entertainingly outrageous, and just being
repellent, and in the past two weeks you’ve
not just crossed that line, you’ve smashed it
to smithereens in your desperation to offend.
This bizarre process began with your
ridiculous spat with fellow rapper Wiz Khalifa,
where in a grotesque misunderstanding of
something he’d tweeted, you went on a
Twitter rampage in which you gratuitously
insulted his wife, your former girlfriend Amber
Rose, by calling her a gold-digging stripper.
Worse, you dragged his little son Sebastian
into it too, in a quite despicable manner,
inferring he wouldn’t even exist if you hadn’t
ditched his mother.
I wrote then that you had behaved in a
‘pathetic, petty and woefully insensitive’
manner by using a man’s child to humiliate
him.
But that, it turned out, was just the warm-up
act to your main performance of quite breath-
taking crassness.Three days ago, you
suddenly tweeted, for no apparent reason:
‘BILL COSBY IS INNOCENT!!!!!!’
Something that literally nobody else on
Planet Earth believes.
In fact, I seriously doubt even Bill Cosby
believes it.
By informing your 18.6 million followers of
this sentiment, you also effectively informed
them that the 50 women who have so far
come forward to claim Cosby drugged, raped
or abused them are all fakes.You’re implying
they’ve all made up their stories to smear a
once revered national icon. Yes, every one of
those 50 women is a liar apparently.
As so often, you offered no explanation for
your incendiary comment.You just stuck it
out to ignite a media firestorm and help flog
your new record.
I’m sure there must have been a more
shameless, disgraceful exploitation of
serious sexual assault in the history of the
music industry, I just can’t off hand think of
one.
Today, you shifted your line of attack to yet
another woman, Taylor Swift.
A nice, decent young lady who’s done
nothing to deserve your opprobrium other
than the fact you once decided to charge the
VMAs stage as Taylor accepted an award,
furious that your friend Beyoncé hadn’t won it
instead.
It emerged on Thursday that the lyric to
Famous, one of the tracks on your new
album, contains this line: ‘I feel like me and
Taylor might still have sex. I made that b*tch
famous.’
Aside from the obvious disrespect to your
wife Kim Kardashian West, it’s a thoroughly
unpleasant and sexist thing to say to Taylor
Swift.
It was also untrue, she was already a hugely
successful recording artist before you ruined
her award-winning moment.
As news of this new vile slur spread, and
anger erupted on social media led by Taylor’s
brother, you decided that attack was the best
form of defence.
You went on another Twitter rampage in
which you declared that you’d cleared this
lyric with Taylor. In fact, it was all HER idea.
Wow, really? That would change everything.
No, not really.
Taylor’s representatives quickly made it very
clear that your claims are a pack of lies.
1) She hadn’t in fact approved any such
lyric.
2) She didn’t even know about the ‘I made
that b*tch famous’ part,.
3) She specifically ‘cautioned’ you about
‘releasing a song with such a strong
misogynistic message.’
As always when hoisted by your own petard,
Kanye, you chose to blame everyone else for
failing to understand you.
‘Stop trying to demonize real artist,’ you
raged, ‘that’s why music’s so f***ing watered
down right now. They want to control us with
money and perception and mute the culture.’
No mate, with the greatest of respect, that’s
a load of old c-rap.
Nobody’s demonizing any artist around here.
We just find your recent public behaviour
towards women profoundly wrong.
You can say what you like in private, that’s
your business.
But when you go on a global platform like
Twitter and act like a slathering pig, it’s our
right to say: ‘Shut the **** up Kanye.’
I’m astonished that your wife Kim doesn’t
stop you doing this.
Despite all the mockery she gets, I’ve always
admired her for being a hard-working,
empowered, independent woman.
Why would she enjoy seeing her husband
berating other hard-working, empowered,
independent women in such a degrading
way?
You insisted in one of your latest blizzard of
tweets, ‘I asked my wife for her blessings
and she was cool with it.’
Hmmm, I find that very hard to believe
frankly.
Kim’s ‘cool’ with you suggesting you want to
have sex with Taylor Swift? Kim’s ‘cool’ with
you calling Taylor a ‘b*tch?’
In fact, Kim’s not just ‘cool’ with it, she
offered her ‘blessings’?
If she did, then Kim’s let herself down almost
as much as you have.
More to the point, you’ve both let your
children down.
Why would you want them to think that’s
how men should speak about women in
public?
I’m disappointed in you, Kanye.
You’re better than this.
It’s not ‘cool’ to be so overtly offensive to
women.
Not now you’re a husband and father.
Grow Up!
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