Kanye West clearly can't take a joke as the rapper admitted he was annoyed about being mocked at the MTV Video Music Awards last month by comedian Jay Pharoah, launching into yet another rant at this year's Made In America music festival in which he detailed his struggles of being in a famous "interracial relationship."
The 36-year-old was in the midst of his headline set at Jay Z's annual event in Philadelphia on Saturday when he stopped his performance of 'New Slaves' to give the audience a lecture on how difficult it is being Kanye - sense the sarcasm - while making reference to Saturday Night Live comedian Pharoah who spoofed him on stage at the VMAs two weeks ago.
Revealing his annoyance to the audience, Kanye said according to the Mail Online: "I called Jay Pharoah right after the MTV awards. I said, 'I appreciate your show, but let me tell you about my story. Let me tell you about what I went through to get to that position. So we ain't gonna have no black comedians going onstage spoofing the people that's working hard, and helping the next man out.' It's fine and all funny and everything, but don't distract from our vision. It's not a joke what we do up here. This music that we do is not a joke. What we do culturally is not a joke," he lamented.
Kim and Kanye got married in Florence, Italy, in May (Renato Marzini/Splash News)
The 'Blood On The Leaves' hitmaker then made reference to his marriage with Kim Kardashian, 33, adding: "For me to be in a very publicised interracial relationship is not a joke. It's something that should be treated with respect cause we're all in this together," continuing of his creativity: "They try to make it seem like a self absorbed thing, but the bottom line is that I want to be able to create more, to create more that can help more people. I know everybody's doing their job. But before we go to the next song, what I want people to realise is what we do we put our love, our heart, our pain, our story, our lives into it."
It's not the first time Kanye has claimed to have been discriminated against for his interracial relationship with Kim, saying during a press conference earlier this summer: "Two years of people not understanding an interracial relationship, two years of people not understanding the idea of the art world meets the pop world, you have to take the lash and be able to swim in the backlash."
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