Just sayin: he doesn't have control of whether or not the other bands go long, has invested time and money into a light show that he believes compliments the music in such a way that the set wouldn't be as strong w/o the effects...

that being said, all of his admittedly decent points are totally negated by him calling everyone "SQUID BRAINS" which is pretty much the worst insult ever.

Also: Gawker had this up about 8 hours ago.

Awwwww, Kanye's gonna break his Macbook Air. Wonder if he'll chip a finely manicured nail when that happens.

Sounds like an ice princess to me...

Its great to know that KW owns, and rages on his personal (fucking) MAC. BOOK. AIR. air. air (echoes continue).

Im so sick of this guy. Its not even your own gig. You’re an invited artist, you play when you’re told to play in the time allotted to play. Your ass should have been out there at some point during that two hours singing, or apologizing for the delay or doing SOMETHING instead of sitting on your tour bus waiting. If your set doesn’t fit on the stage allotted, then you accommodate. I can’t believe he blames Bonnaroo organizers, Pearl Jam, and anyone else who inconveniences him instead of taking some accountability. Mr. West, I will certainly NOT be attending your show at Lollapalooza.

I'm with you, E. I would love to see both of them, but NIN takes top seed, so I wouldn't mind a Kanye delay, even if it is wishful thinking.

I actually feel bad for all the Kanye bad press. Yes, Pearl Jam was an hour late. . something tells me that stage crews are also probably running a little longer on tear down and set up at that hour in the morning too, especially if they've been working long hours.

I mean, how many times have you been at a show that you came out specifically just to see (and were not already there for a festival) in Chicago in which it took the artist forever to "set up," and on the 3rd - 4th guitar sound check you realize a serious stall for the artist is in place? Dirty Pretty Things were 1.5 hours late for a set at Schubas b/c they decided to run back to their hotel for a few hours, yet no one blogged about them playing late, just about how they liked the set. There have been plenty of artist with non complicated set ups that took 1-2 hours to get on stage in Chicago...why is Kanye getting all this crap? Sorry people were cranky and tired at 3 am, and that now everyone has to blog instantly from their phones to voice their anger. If you didn't like waiting. . perhaps you should have bailed at an hour late, or 40 minutes late and checked out some other shows.

PS Mich. . .Generally at festivals, they grab the artist at the backstage trailor or bus that they give them to prep for the show. They are generally instructed to be at that location at a certain time by the festival production crew. When the stage is almost setup and ready for the artist, they generally grab them via a golf cart and run them over to the set. Kanye was probably waiting and angry at the wait as well.

I'm not a fan of his work, but I feel like you can't talk S&*t if you have no idea how festival setups or stage management works, or were there to witness and understand everything that led to his delay.

ooooh i'm just sooo ungry i'm going to break my computa!!! Kanye the Clown once again proves why he's more of a diva than an artist. I could understand his argument about wanting to start the set when it was dark out, but to all those that were there, he didn't actually get on stage until after 4 a.m. and the sun was coming up ... about halfway through his set it was light enough that he likely would have been playing at dusk if he got on stage when he was actually scheduled to.

Kanye continues to show why this is really just all about him. It's all about his inflated ego, it's all about what he wants to do ... He's not hip hop. J-Dilla, Jay Z, Guilty Simpson, Madlib, Black Thought, etc. that's hip hop. Kanye's a fucking clown, a fucking show and the ego trip ends here. That NIN set Sunday night at Lolla keeps looking better and better.

Oh sorry, dating a musician does make you an expert on the production of a large music festival. But, no honestly, I'm not trying to be snarky or snobby towards you. I'm just trying to defend something based upon what I know of large scale festival organization, and I'm by no means any expert on the matter.

Frankly, the organizers would have the stage setups, rider, production staff to execute stage setup, etc from Kanye's team, so if the setup didn't fit the requirements, its most likely a fault of a lack of communication between the organizers and Kanye's management team. Perhaps his team is at fault, perhaps the production company, who knows really, we weren't there.

I was just trying to say that at these concerts, the way things run are coordinated by the organizers and production staff, and our generally out of the artist hands. The artists play when they are told to for the period of them time they are told to, or they don't get paid. This is why Broken Social Scene couldn't play one more song two years ago, though they were DIEING to at Lollapalooza. I've been backstage at several of these festivals (as a part of the production crew (photography) in some cases) to witness how it all works and have many friends that work on production organization.

I understand, and also agree that this wasn't the best verbiage to use for Kanye, but it is in fact a blog. . .Take it for what you will. Probably would have been the best for him just not to comment on it at all.

I'm just trying to say that I think it is unfair to place all of the blame for the tardiness on Kanye and defending that it was most likely not his fault. He was most likely wanting to play, on time, to his fans, just as much as his fans were wanting to see him perform.

I think a lot of people are taking their own angst against disliking his music or overall demeanor and turning it around to finding an issue with his performance. If you weren't at the festival waiting for him to play even (which I'm assuming most of you weren't as you arent' fans), then why proclaim that he owes an apology? Even more so, why do we all even care? We really shouldn't. I guess you are a fan, or you're not, and this event should not effect that.

How did I contradict myself?

I didn't say I didn't know, I just didn't claim to be an expert in the matter. For instance, I am no residential expert on bees, but I know they do not have knees. That's not a contradiction. That said, I do not know the ins and outs of every organized music festival, nor have I planned one, but I explained what I have witnessed, in person, not by hearsay or conjecture.

How do you know that he didn't go on when he was told to? Were you there? Did you tell him when to go on? Were you running the show?

Doubtful.

You don't know who's fault it actually was, you just assume.

I think its absurd for people that weren't even at the stage waiting to watch Kanye to comment on how he owes the world an apology.

Why don't you nag CSS for an apology for bailing on Lollapalooza last year by simply not showing up and placing a last minute call as well?

I think IAMGAY is Kanye West incognito.

That was pretty funny lamgray, but seriously, do you wear those white sunglasses popularized by Kanye? Are they going on today?

Lamgray, don't try to out clever me or I will do to you what ever Margaret did to Spav1. Not that I know exactly happened or that I have the deep pocked resources that Margaret has due to her ties to Oprah, where she is able to make folks just vanish with out a trace