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15th Sep 2014

Video: Kanye West stops gig because wheelchair-bound fans won’t stand up

The man is a pioneer for d**kheadedness.

Tony Cuddihy

The man is a pioneer for d**kheadedness.

Kanye West caused outrage in Australia this weekend when he stopped a performance because some fans were seated, insisting he’d only play when everyone was standing.

The two seated fans were in wheelchairs. Nice one, Kanye.

“I can’t do this song, I can’t do this show until everybody stand up. Unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and s**t,” he charmed.

When one of the audience members waved a prosthetic leg, he said, “okay, you fine,” before sending a bodyguard into the crowd to see why the other fan was still sitting down in the Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney.

According to witnesses, he asked his bodyguard, “He is in a wheelchair? It’s fine!” before continuing his song Good Life.

What an c*ck.

***UPDATE***

Video footage of the incident has surfaced online this morning. It makes for pretty awkward viewing…

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