VATICAN – Kanye West has sparked more controversy after interrupting the Pope Francis’ acceptance speech for the Person of the Year award.
The 77-year-old pontiff, collecting his award at the Vatican, was left humiliated as West appeared to grab the microphone and launch into a passionate diatribe.
Though not even short-listed for the Time award, West told Time Magazine the that the award should have gone to him for his work on being continuously awesome.
‘Imma let you finish’
Francis had begun his acceptance speech by thanking God, but before he could finish West had jumped onto the stage to announce that “everyone knows I should have taken home Person of the Year.”
He continued: “Yo Francis, I’m really happy for you and I’m going to let you finish but I had one of the best albums of all time. In the world.”
Kanye West admitted that the new Pope had done “decent work” in just nine months to bring forward thinking, progressive reform to the Catholic Church, but doubted Francis’ ability to deliver a transcendent hip hop album with as many layers as Yeezus.
“I made the biggest album of all time yo. ALL TIME!” Shouted West. “Don’t that count for nothing?”
“I produced all the tracks on that bitch. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Charts.”
“I did a collabo with God. The Pope ain’t done that!”
Adding to his argument, West claimed he could have won just for the fact his Bound 2 music video featured Kim Kardashian and cost over $1 million.
“I did a video with my girl on a motorcycle. Come on yo! How is that not the greatest thing anybody has done this year?”
He went on to randomly shout: “Bound!”
Sour grapes
The controversy was the biggest since 1942 when Adolf Hitler interrupted Joseph Stalin’s Man of the Year speech claiming he should have won it a second time for his work on World War II.
Speaking after the incident, Pope Francis insisted he didn’t hold any ill will towards West, though did admit he was “being a bit of a dick”.
The reaction from archbishops was not as understanding however. Archbishop Luigi Napoliello took to Twitter to voice his outrage, calling West “the biggest piece of sh*t” he had seen.
Napoliello later deleted the tweet and replaced it with one that warned he “better not see Kanye alone on the street or so help me God #amen”.
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