Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are not going to take heavy criticism lying down.
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"What an amazing Australian tour! It's frustrating that something so awesome could be clouded by lies in the media. Kanye never asked anyone in a wheelchair to stand up & the audience videos show that. He asked for everyone to stand up & dance UNLESS they were in a wheelchair. #JustWantedEveryoneToHaveAFunNight #TheMediaTwistsThings," Kardashian captioned a video of the rapper's concert on Instagram Monday.
During a Sydney, Australia concert on Friday, West was accused of ordering everyone in the crowd to stand up in cheer when two individuals in the audience were disabled and couldn't literally get on their feet. According to Newsday, one person was in a wheelchair and another had a prosthetic limb.
The incident made it on YouTube on Saturday, racking in over 20,000 views. Of the hundreds of comments written under the video, viewers have offered conflicting opinions. Some have criticized West for being very arrogant, while others said the rapper deserves a free pass because he didn't know any better.
"What I want you to do is I want you to run the video everyone's talkin' about where I so-called screamed at somebody and everything. I want you to run that, right, since this is such big media-press-news and everything that obviously they trying to demonize me for," West told the crowd at his show Monday night, according to The Daily Beast.
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"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 somethin'. I'm not judging, I'm just going to tell you who I am. I'm a married, Christian man..."
West continued in his alleged five-minute rant, "At my concerts, I make sure everybody has as good a time as possible. So all this demonizing me, it ain't goin' to work after a while. Pick a new target. Pick a new target. Because I'm not one of these dumbass artists that you're used to. You come at me, I'm going to take my platform and break this shit down for real, intelligent people every night. And then, we'll get back to the music."
West, 37, has been married to the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, 33, for over three months and the couple has one daughter together named North West.
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