During the taping, according to a Reuters reporter, West was aggrieved that Radiohead singer Thom Yorke had allegedly snubbed him backstage at the Grammys five days earlier. That hurt, West told the audience, because he idolizes the British band, and considers it one of his few creative rivals.
“So when he performed at the Grammys, I sat the f— down,” West said.
A little later, West asked the crowd, “Can’t we give Chris a break? … I know I make mistakes in life.” He was referring to R&B singer Chris Brown, who was arrested on the night of the Grammys on suspicion of beating his girlfriend Rihanna.
In the same context, West earned loud applause with his declaration: “Michael Jackson, amazing. Michael Phelps, amazing … He’s a real f—in’ person; he makes mistakes,” referring to the champion swimmer’s recent bong pipe brouhaha.
VH1 has cleaned up those comments a bit, and it also included West’s less-popular follow-up observation: “O.J. Simpson, amazing. Is he not? What he did, when he did, what he did. Was he not amazing though?”
In between his speeches, West found time to perform 14 songs. Some, such as “Go Hard” and “Street Lights,” will not appear on the episode. The final set list combines older tunes like “Touch the Sky” and “Stronger,” and tracks from his new album “808s and Heartbreak,” including “Amazing” and “See You In My Nightmares.”
The taping of the show, which premieres on Saturday night, reportedly lasted three hours, and producers will be cutting it down to 90 minutes for air. The typical “Storytellers” is one hour long, so the editing out of some of West’s comments is not a conspiracy to silence him, according to a rep for VH1.
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