Piers Morgan took another jab at Kanye West
who launched his fashion label yesterday. He
wrote:
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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