By: Taren Vaughan
Kanye West explains paparazzi attack and tries to make peace with paps? Kanye West has bumped heads with the paparazzi plenty of times before. And the rapper has been very open with his feeling about them too. Kanye’s run-in with the paparazzi at LAX however turned rather ugly as he reportedly got physical with a male pap. In addition to an ambulance being called to the scene over the incident, Kanye’s attack resulted in him getting slapped with a lawsuit not too mention he is also facing criminal battery and attempted grand theft charges which could put him behind bars for a whole year. Kanye claims his actions were justified and he was merely acting out of self defense. During his recent appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” following his awkward Twitter beef with the late night talk show host, Kanye spoke on the paparazzi again and said he wasn’t afraid to get “Chicago” on them if necessary, a comment lawyer Gloria Allred slammed him for making.
Despite his recent comments, Kanye West looks to be trying to squash his beef with the paparazzi. Stopping at a gas station to fill up his car, Kanye ran into the paps but was much more friendly to them this time around and even offered an explanation as to why he went after the male pap at LAX. Kanye says he lashed out the way he did because he’d just discovered that his grandfather was on the verge of passing away and denies hitting the male pap at the airport:
“The guy set me up at the airport the other day. You know, we was f*cking laughing and sh*t. What I didn’t get to say on Jimmy Kimmel, that’s the day I found out that my grandfather was not gonna make it. He passed two weeks later. But when I’m comin’ out the airport, because it’s Kanye, whatever, ‘We’re gonna [mess] with him. We’re going to antagonize him.’ I tried to stop his camera and stuff. He fell down, faked it. Then people were talkin’ about, ‘Oh. Yo, why’d you hit that guy?’ Obviously [I] didn’t hit the guy.”
Kanye then showed his gratitude towards the paps for helping his family and says he wants to maintain a decent relationship with them:
“We’re in this together. You guys help me influence. You help with the family. You help with Kim’s power and everything, so I’m not trying to…be at you guys in any type of negative way. I don’t want you guys to be negative to me. I would prefer that we just have a decent relationship.”
What do you think? Is Kanye’s long standing beef with the paparazzi about to finally come to an end?
There’s always going to be at least one pap that is going to say something reckless to get a reaction out of Kanye, and he will respond. It is what it is.
Kim’s power? He calls attention whoring and calling the paps wherever you go, and faking everything for a reality show POWER? Oh Kanye…
LOL you know Kanye is impressed by Kim’s “career.” Girl didn’t use not an inch of her brain to get where she is tho. Sad what people like Kanye put on a pedestal.
Big step for Kanye. I hope he learns how to stop reacting. That’s all they want from him anyway.
Well at least he didn’t go off this time. He needs to understand the bigger picture here. They want him to spazz out so they can make him look like he’s crazy and file lawsuits.
He needs to smarten up and stop letting the paps have so much power over him.
Oh he’ll go off again on the right day. Trust.