“I was just so excited he was coming up. He deserves to be on stage as much as anybody,” Beck said when asked how he felt about West crashing the stage. “How many great records has he put out in the last five years right?”
Even though he said Beyonce should have won? “Absolutely,” replied the humble musician. “I thought she was going to win. Come on, she’s Beyonce!”
And what about his diss that Beyonce is true artistry, and you’re not? “You can’t please everybody, man,” he replied. “I still love him and think he’s genius. I aspire to do what he does.”
Beck, responding to Kanye’s reaction to the Grammy results.
So can all the white boys champing at the bit for some kind of beef between Beck and Kanye chill? Each thinks the other is a genius and loves the other’s work, and both think Beyonce should have won. This is not a conflict between artists. This is Kanye being upset at the entertainment industry as an institution and a system.
(via emomoz)
