Audience member in wheelchair crowd surfs at Kanye West concert
A week after instructing two handicapped audience members to stand up during concert, Kanye West watched a man in a wheelchair crowd surf at his concert last night, in Chicago.
Kanye West at Øyafestivalen, 2011
Flickr user NRK P3
The act of redemption, where the man in the wheelchair crowd surfed at the West performance, took place at Common's AAHH! Festival, according to
Gawker. Video footage doesn't display West acknowledging the fan, but the connection between the earlier incident and the crowd surfing incident remains irrefutable.
At his performance in Australia, earlier this month, West paused his show, in order to tell two handicapped audience members to stand up. The incident occurred while West was performing a show at the Quantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney, according to an earlier Digital Journal
article.
As soon as the online community took hold of and noticed the incident involving West, he didn't offer an apology, but rather took it as an opportunity at his following performance to subsequently rant about the media. When responding to the wheelchair incident, West
revealed, "Because they've got this thing where they want the masses—people who've never heard my albums—to somehow read a headline that reads negative, and think that I'm a bad person or something. I'm not judging, I'm just going to tell you who I am. I'm a married, Christian man."
The rant in its entirety can be viewed
here.