Kanye on Taylor

KANYE COMES CLEAN: Kanye West spent a good part of election night not tweeting but communicating the old-fashioned way, talking on N.Y.’s Hot 97 with Funkmaster Flex, who naturally brought up Yeezy’s “oops” moment with Taylor Swift duing the 2009 VMAs. During his rambling and intermittently revealing response, Kanye made reference on-air to his statement during the September 2004 Concert for Hurricane Relief, that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," Dave Itzkoff notes in the N.Y. Times. “It’s an amazing, compelling situation,” said Kanye. “The situation is bigger to me than the Bush moment.” He then admitted he’d shirked his responsibility as a high-profile black artist during that moment. “That’s why so many fans of mine were upset,” he explained, “because they’re like: ‘Man, you’ve got a powerful situation where you can put your music out like that and do award shows and everything. You can’t be so reckless with your opinion. Like, we can agree with you, but you’ve got to play it in another type of way, because you can’t throw away the opportunity.’” Some of that power was taken away with that moment.” (11/3a)