Kanye Booed at Bonnaroo

06/16/2008 5:00 AM, E! Online
Josh Grossberg

The Bonnaroo boobirds were out in full force for Kanye West this weekend.

The Grammy winner walked onto the festival stage nearly two hours past his scheduled 2:45 a.m. performance time Sunday morning and was greated by bleary-eyed fans' chorus of boos and chants of "Kanye sucks."

West was originally set to kick things off at 8:15 p.m., but because he wanted to make the most of his Glow-in-the-Dark Tour's lighting show, the hip-hopster's camp asked to push back the gig to 2:45 a.m. following Pearl Jam's show.

However, the Seattle grunge rockers' gig lasted an hour longer than planned, with Eddie Vedder and bandmates not wrapping until 1:15 a.m. Then there was an extended break while Pearl Jam's roadies disassembled the band's stage and West's crew set up his own elaborate backdrop, a glow-in-the-dark spaceship along with undulating black platform and raised video screen.

Organizers posted a message via Jumbotron that the "Can't Tell Me Nothing" rapper wouldn't be taking the stage until 3:15 a.m., then 3:30. When 4:15 a.m. rolled around and still no West, the antsy crowd began hurling glow sticks at the stage and screaming anti-West sentiments. Bonnaroo officials didn't help the matter, not informing festivalgoers why the changeover was taking so long.

West finally made his entrace at 4:30 a.m., but by then, many exhausted attendees had had enough and returned to their tents.

Apparently, they didn't miss too much.

Judging by online reviews, West's performance didn't stand out from the 150 acts performing at the four-day musical campout. In fact, it was a yawner.

"He was two hours late, cut his show short, didn't once acknowlegde the crowd that waited two hours on an already late show, not even a wave goodbye...I'm no longer a Kanye fan, huge disappointment," one fan wrote at the music blog Stereogum.com.

"It's not the stage hands' fault; that stage was set up for well over an hour before Kanye decided to grace us with his presence," wrote another attendee on VillageVoice.com. "The next time he holds that finger up and proclaims himself as #1, I hope someone tells him what he can do with that finger."

Per festival reports, West failed to even acknowledge his tardiness.

The bad vibes carried over to Sunday's daytime slate, when during his set pedal-steel guitar virtuoso Robert Randolph groused about West's behavior, prompting fans to reprise the "Kanye sucks" chant.

There was no immediate comment from the West camp.

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Well, it was no Goodburger.

what a cunt of a thing to do.
i hate when schedules get all messed up, especially if it's on purpose. people pay a hell of a lot of money to get what they paid for.

i was at a festival kind of recently where the acts were about 2 hours late, but they'd been scheduled up until about 2am, even on the first night. there was only really one stage by that time, luckily. so i didn't get to see girl talk and a few bands that i really would have liked to. to top it off, our tent was CLOSE to the main stage, so it was still pumping out at 5am while i was trying to sleep

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regard and regard for the inverse and perverse and obverse, and diverse, of reverse and reverse

I can't stand his ass. He thinks he is God's gift. Yea he's had a few hits, but the last major hit was a sample. From what I hear a lot of his recent album samples other atrists' work.

Whatever. He's not all that great. He needs to stop acting so cocky. Making people wait that long is just uncalled for, and if you ARE going to make them wait, make it worth it.

those promoters are dumb to let PJ play for an extra hour knowing that they have massive takedown and Kanye has massive set up.

Dumb dumb all around

That Diva totally deserved it.
I mean, at post 2am you gotta give the crowd some extra love
Not to mention just play the stage you are delt and never mind this fancery with glow shit.

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