We ain't sayin' he's an attention-digger, but Kanye West has never been the most reticent of celebs.
That's why it was all the more puzzling when his bodyguard and then Kanye himself went ballistic on our cameraman yesterday in SoHo. Our guy was filming him as he emerged from a nondescript office building on Houston Street -- when his security guy ordered the camera turned off, even though he let the photographers snap away.
Seconds later, Kanye stepped right in, telling us that there would be "a problem" if we didn't stop rolling, alleging an invasion of privacy on his residence. Sure, except the place he stays when in NYC ... is actually a few blocks away.
11/1/2007 9:30 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Kanye -- Camera Shy?
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I can't stand this lame jerk who in his own mind is the biggest thing in music, when I hear any of his songs on the radio, I CHANGE it. He is the biggest wanking whiney baby, he wins the award out of all the fame whores in Hollyweirdy
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To those commentors judging Kanye's charitible contributions. Ummm damn He was invited by the Princes of Wales to perform in a Charitible Concert on Princess Diana's birthday. The list is long of his contributions to numerous charities. But he doesn't have to speak on the good ish that he does. Charitible contributions aren't always supposed to be publicized all the time. But the problem is...White people do not like Confident, educated, well spoken, opinionated black men. Y'all want our men to Yessa Massa your asses and fade to the background...MTV ain't never been our network and Bob Johnson's silly azz sold Our network to the Viacom so it ain't about ish anymore. Kanye says a lotta things black people think, but would like to keep their jobs so they won't say it. Especially that George Bush doesn't care about black people. That was evident when his azz set foot in California in record flippin time during those wild fires. Anway...Kanye you can say whatever the hell you want to as long as you keep makin that good music that keeps my azz awake all day at work..I'm cool.
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wouldn't it be dreamy to stick kanye,britney & sharpton in a pressure cooker & watch their heads explode..................
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I could care less if Kanye is black, white, pink or blue. He is not a well spoken human being at all. He may be well educated but, the man has NO common sense as far as the right thing to say and the wrong thing. I was a HUGE fan of his until he started whining about the Awards he should have gotten. That is just wrong. He should appreciate the money he is making and the good music he makes instead of jumping on stage and whining. A lot of people who are struggling to make it big in music would give their eye teeth to have some of his 'fame' and not complain and whine about what they think they deserve. Blah on Kanye
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What a diva. Noone likes that jack off racist piece of crap anyways!!! Please put the barrel in ure mouth and pull the trigger... Yay that would make us ALL soo HAPPY!!!!!
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fyi,
he is a college dropout--not college educated... dont confuse the two
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Ever since I found out this guy charged a church $50K to appear/perform, my opinion of him went down the tubes.
And my feelings about a church that would pay that kinda of money for someone to appear/perform went down the tubes too.
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Over the past year our lives have been torn apart. Me and my three children went through a custody battle. My ex-husband started contacting DHR when he couldnt win in court. Its a very common practice i was told by the DNR worker. I submited to the drug test,and home vists once a week, nothing ever being found agianst me. Ive been a mother for 15 years and she told me everything was great..until my ex made so many reports to dhr he finally hit on something that couldnt be ignored, after the 5th false report they alleged that i was giving beer to my 15 year old daughter. Not true and the dhr workers had never see or noted beer ever being in my home.I had private investigators parked in front of my home with video thanks to my ex-husband. I was being driven crazy by him... None of that matterd. With nothing to go on they still found me guilty. Now my ex-husdand has the fire power he couldnt get on his own. Just a few false report and now a dhr report to back him he gained custody of my 12 year old son. It tore my heart out..The people i always thought were there to protect me are nothing more then pawns in the court system.. of who has more money and can camp the system out. I feel sorry for single mothers.... you dont have a chance in court if you dont have the money to fight. DHR didnt even talk to the people i knew..only my ex and his new wife. Who had never been in my home and had everything to gain.
Truth is - this is all a BIG lie posted by a perjuror
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I'm starting to like this guy.:
Kanye West doesn't care about fat white photographers.
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If Kanye didnot hav body guards he woul have had his ass kckd from L.A.. to NYC. #1 and #7 nailed it he is a piece of crap. He and Brit would make a great couple. They both SUCK
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2 points:
1. While Kanye is not a thug, he is also not a college graduate. Some of us black men go to college and finish.
2. That guy is not his bodyguard. Its his gay lover. Thats why he was saying he doesn't want to be taped with the guy coming out of the "place he stays" which happens to be in SoHo. Listen to the guys voice. Everyone can front but its clear Kanye is a downlow brother.
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...." invasion of privacy" or " illegal"..I thought there weren't laws abt that yet??..just curious..
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