Leave it to Kanye West to upstage pretty much any major music industry event, which he did again last night (June 26) during a Lifetime Achievement award presentation for Sean “Diddy” Combs. West delivered an unannounced five-plus-minute speech at the show while wearing a heavy leather jacket, baseball cap, sunglasses and a black mask covering his entire face, a bizarre look he began sporting in public last year. [embedded content][embedded content] West, who legally changed his name to Ye last year, mentioned Combs’ penchant for altering his nom de plume and saluted his influence on his own music. He recalled being present while Combs filmed the video for his hit 1997 song “I’ll Be Missing You” and said Combs was his “favorite artist at the time.” “Back then, there was so many rules to hi...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gotham / Getty Kanye West was the hottest rapper in the building at Sunday evening’s (June 26) BET Awards. Wearing a jacket, full face mask, dad hat and sunglasses, despite it being 80 degrees in Los Angeles, Ye was on stage to present Sean “Diddy” Combs with his BET Lifetime Achievement Award. But while making sure to give the man formerly known as Puff Daddy (he started by asking, “How do we crown our kings? How do we appreciate our kings?,”), you knew Yeezy had to make it about himself, at least for a bit, along with some head-scratching commentary. “To see Puff in real life at the ‘Missing You’ video, just like me tapping free like a little kid… I just need to meet this man,” said Ye. “This is my favorite artist. You see I’m saying favorite artist, ev...