(From Ultimate Classic Rock):
 
 

 
Kanye West is apparently lucky he interrupted alternative hero Beck instead of Kiss star Paul Stanley last night at the Grammys.
 
“Beck should’ve kicked Kanye right in the nuts and said, ‘Get the f— of MY stage!,’” Stanley declared on Facebook. West — who famously interrupted Taylor Swift’s win at the 2009 VMAs to declare that Beyonce was more deserving of an award — pulled a similar stunt during Beck’s Album of the Year acceptance speech last night. Although it seemed like a lighthearted joke or self-parody at the time, with West offering a sly smile and not actually speaking, later on he made it clear he had problems with Beck winning the award over Beyonce:

I don’t even know what [Beck] said. I just know that, the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. … And Beck needs to respect artistry, he should have given his award to Beyoncé. At this point, we tired of it. What happens is, when you keep on diminishing art, and not respecting the craft, and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration. We, as musicians, have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyoncé album, and they feel like it takes them to a different place. … I am here to fight for creativity. That’s why I didn’t say anything tonight, but you all knew what it meant when ‘Ye stepped on that stage.

For his part, Beck seems to be taking the whole thing in stride, saying “I was just so excited he [West] was coming up. He deserves to be onstage as much as anybody … How many great records has he put out in the last five years, right?”
 

West must be on Beyonce's payroll........
 
 
Speaking of which, I never care for the movie Dumb & Dumber. 

I did listen to a few excerpts of the Beyoncé album. It's very run of the mill chart fodder. To call it a monumental feat of music is like giving 3 Michelin stars to a bowl of Ramen noodles.

K. West's nutz are made of brass. Wouldn't have affected him.

Good lord. I haven't listened to much Beck in recent years but that dude IS a real artist/musician/producer. Granted I am not familiar with Beyonce's stuff but does she actually do all the grunt work or is there some epic R&B/spin masters making the actual music? I'm going to have to assume the latter.
 
Beck ain't the greatest singer, guitar player or whatever but what he does he does well and there is some serious "overall" perspective to the final creation and it translates well to the listener. I've always considered him very unique and artistic even on tracks I didn't care for. That's art.
 
Someone who may be a great singer... well that's great and that is still artistic but to state that a guy who does it ALL, broke about a million molds and manages to still be successful in a highly vapid and plastic pop industry against all odds is somehow a lesser artist than somehow who what? Just sings and shakes it well?
 
Sorry... I said it in the other thread. This guy is just an attention seeking clown who makes these "profound" proclamations to stay edgy and in the TMZ columns.
 
And here I am wasting bandwidth and brainspace on this CLOWN.
 
Well played, Fishsticks. Well played.

K. likes fishsticks?

There is no such thing as bad publicity.

P.T. Barnum
 
 
Why are people continuing to fall for this and keep talking about this idiot?

Beepster
Granted I am not familiar with Beyonce's stuff but does she actually do all the grunt work[?]

Hehe...  That about sums it up right there.

bapu
K. likes fishsticks?

Yes, but they seem to send him into a flying rage all at the same time.
 
Love is a strange and complex matter.