Kanye West has hit back at those who made a big deal of his stopping a concert in Sydney. At last week’s Sydney show, he castigated two audience members for not standing up and dancing, not realizing that one was wheelchair-bound and the other had a prosthetic limb. In a disjointed rant on Monday night that knocked everyone from Ben Affleck to Matt Lauer to Whoopi Goldberg, West lashed out at the media for criticizing his behavior, the Daily Beast reports. The riposte was delivered during his concert in Brisbane, where West is bringing his Australian tour to a close. “It’s like, ‘Welcome to today’s news, ladies and gentlemen.’ We’ve got Americans getting killed on TV, kids getting killed every weekend in Chicago, unarmed people being killed by police officers,” said West to the Brisbane crowd. “It makes you just want to reflect on what are the things that are, uh, a little bit more sensationalized.” Those sensationalized things, he implied, included a big-name rapper mistakenly harassing two disabled concertgoers. The rest of his address went on in rambling West fashion, with the artist claiming that his music transcended mere news. “This is real expression.
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