Kanye’s On-Stage Auto-Tuned Rant About Michael Jordan Lasts Three Whole Minutes, Is Perfect
"I'm talking about one of the most important people in our civilisation."
In a world almost suffocated by the posturing God-complex of Kanye West, it’s easy to forget that the man might be having a bit of fun with it all. Maybe that’s why moves like the ‘Bound 2’ clip — in retrospect, a fairly obvious and self-aware attempt at Mills & Boon kitsch — land online with such a thud.
It also explains the beauty in moments like this: Kanye’s heartfelt, three-minute Auto-tuned rant on stage in Chicago, in which he laments the city’s loss of Michael Jordan to the Washington Wizards in 2001 — a team Jordan bought in 2000 following his second retirement from the Chicago Bulls.
“We shoulda never ever let Michael Jordan play for the Wizards / We shoulda never ever let Michael Jordan play for the Wizards / Why did that happen? Why did that happen?”
“When a player wants to become an owner / When a player that’s done more for the league than the league could have done for him / When a player that made the NBA wants to become an owner of a team he brought so much glory to / A team that has his statue on the front of the motherfucking building.
“But do you know what the owners of that team told MJ? / ‘You’re just a player my boy, you can’t get no pay, you can’t own shit.’ / They told Michael Jordan that he couldn’t own shit!”