Kanye West graced the 2015 Billboard Music Awards with an elaborate performance Sunday night.
Too bad we could barely hear or see him the entire time, thanks to some heavy profanity and a lot of pyrotechnics.
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"Takes you to get this fly? All day, all day. How long you been high? All day, all day. You already know I'm straight from the Chi. All day, all day." (Video via dick clark productions)
Kanye's performances of "All Day" and "Black Skinhead" were so censored, it was like ABC was screaming, "Kanye, I'mma let you finish, but …"
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Case in point: almost 10 seconds of complete silence. (Video via dick clark productions)
Rolling Stone did the math — Kanye was on stage for 5 minutes and 18 seconds, but viewers at home could only hear him for 4 minutes and 16 seconds. Yeezus!
The dramatic performance didn't seem to mute the audience one bit. (Video via dick clark productions)
But for fans at home, it was a completely different story. Kanye received a lot of backlash on Twitter for his "hell set."
But as a writer for The Huffington Post so perfectly pondered, should we expect anything less from Kanye at this point? "It was intense, in true Kanye West fashion."
Well, if we know Kanye, he'll have at least something to say about getting bleeped for more than a minute. And we can't wait to hear it … well, unless that gets censored too.
This video includes images from Getty Images.
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