Kanye West Grammys Speech

I was in a brown motherland, but not THE brown motherland this past Sunday, so I missed the Grammys. I had wanted to watch it since Kanye West had been nominated for a bunch of awards (I think second most nominations while Amy Winehouse had the most). Anyway, Kanye won 4 Grammys, bringing his total to 10 during his “career”. He also did a pretty amazing performance of Stronger with Daft Punk. From there he performed Hey Mama to which he added some new lyrics (his mother passed away recently).

I thought I would post his acceptance speech for Best Rap Album (Graduation). The speech was pretty interesting as he talked about how hip-hop is not dead, and then he spoke about his mother. The “music” (to get winners off the stage) started playing half way through his speech. When he started speaking about his mother, he said, “It would be in good taste to stop the music then”. Amazingly, they stopped the music. Then, people cheered, Kanye continued talking about his mother, then he spoke about how he would make her proud, and ended with “we run this”….

Enjoy…