Kanye West: Radiohead tirade cut from VH1 show

Kanye West: Radiohead tirade cut from VH1 show

Hip-hop singer Kanye West trashed Radiohead and also added that the public should give Chris Brown "a break." He did so while recording of VH1's "Storytellers."

However hias comments will not come to air when the episode is going to be premiered on the lifestyle cable network on Saturday.

The taping, which took place on 13th February at Sony Studios in Los Angeles, lasted three hours. The producers of the show cut it to ninety minutes, after getting network approval for expanding the episode from its usual one hour.

On Thursday executive producer Bill Flanagan told Reuters, "A lot of the stories that Kanye told went long,"  "I tried to get to the essence of his comments."

One of hip-hop's most intriguing and outspoken stars, Kanye West appears to tailor-make for "Storytellers," in which the artists play their songs in an intimate setting and share tidbits with the viewers about how they were written.

According to Flanagan the idea behind "Storytellers" is that VH1 encourages the artist "to just keep talking," and producers in turn will "eliminate any 'gotcha' moments" that don't work.

It is reported that during the taping West was aggrieved that Radiohead singer Thom Yorke had allegedly snubbed him backstage at the Grammys almost 5 days earlier. That hurt was caused since he idolized the British band, and considered it to be one of his few creative rivals.

"So when he performed at the Grammys, I sat the f--- down," added Kanye West.

A little later, West asked the crowd, "Can't we give Chris a break? ... I know I make mistakes in life." He was referring to R&B singer Chris Brown.

In the same context, West earned loud applause by saying, "Michael Jackson, amazing. Michael Phelps, amazing ... He's a real f---in' person; he makes mistakes," referring to the champion swimmer's recent bong pipe brouhaha.”

VH1 has cleaned up those comments a bit, and it also included West's less-popular follow-up observation: "O.J. Simpson, amazing. Is he not? What he did, when he did, what he did. Was he not amazing though?"

In between his speeches, West found time to sin nearly fourteen songs. Some of theses songs namely "Go Hard" and "Street Lights," will not appear on the episode. The final set list combines older tunes like "Touch the Sky" and "Stronger," and tracks from his new album "808s and Heartbreak," including "Amazing" and "See You In My Nightmares."

According to Flanagan he was "pretty delighted" with the way Kanye West has opened up to the crowd and took the whole project in such a serious manner.