For the thoughtful voice of hip-hop, guns seem to follow Kanye West around quite a lot. Last night at a concert in Birmingham, two security guards were shot by a man who didn’t have a ticket.

Shooting someone just because you can’t see Kanye West seems a little bit extreme. Surely the easier thing to do would be to get down to the local retirement home instead, paint all the old ladies gold and get them to walk around while you ridiculously dress up an old man and get him to repeatedly tell you how brilliant he is at everything. It’d be just like the real thing, and far less violent, too.

Kanye West (CDs) is unusual as a rapper because he doesn’t brag about guns
in his songs. And he certainly hasn’t had his arms shot in a botched carjacking
incident like Cam’ron. But that hasn’t stopped gunplay from following
him around willy-nilly. After all, it was at a Kanye West party that
Suge Knight ended up with a bullet in his leg last year, and now there’s been a
shooting at one of his concerts, too.

Last night was the final concert in Kanye West’s jaunt around the UK
- a trip which saw him prance about with a bunch of gold ladies while
wearing Cliff Richard’s glasses from the Wired For Sound video at the
Brit Awards, and manhandling the new Sugababe at the NME Awards. But
what should have been a celebratory concert was marred by violence.
According to Reuters:

The shootings occurred at the front entrance
of the NEC Arena at
about 10 p.m. on Tuesday during an altercation between the guards and a
man who was refused entry to the Grammy-award winner’s show, West
Midlands police said. Detective Inspector Ian Grant said several shots,
believed to have been from a handgun, had been fired. One of the guards
was in hospital in a serious condition but the other had been
discharged after treatment.

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Police probe shooting at Kanye West concert – Reuters