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February 26, 2009
Kanye West's tirade on Radiohead gets edited from VH1 show... Also adds 'Give Chris Brown a break'...
Hip-hop star Kanye West trashed Radiohead and said the public should give Chris Brown “a break,” during a recent taping of VH1’s “Storytellers.”
But the comments will not make it to air when the episode premieres on the lifestyle cable network on Saturday.
The taping, which took place on February 13 at Sony Studios in Los Angeles, lasted three hours. The show’s producers cut it to 90 minutes, after getting network approval to expand the episode from its usual one hour.
Some of West’s choicer comments ended up on the cutting room floor, but there’s no political conspiracy afoot, said executive producer Bill Flanagan.
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Even without those juicy bits, this Storytellers should be pretty epic. VH1 released this preview clip of Kanye doing "Stronger":
http://gotchamedia.blogspot.com/2009/...
look at all those dumb white folks. might be the most famous shitty rapper of all time.