Kanye West’s performance at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center on Saturday night (Nov. 19) was cut short after just 30 minutes following a lengthy, now-standard monologue from the MC — who was reportedly an hour-and-a-half late — that targeted Beyonce, Jay Z, Hillary Clinton, Taylor Swift and the radio industry. Kicking things off by teeing up radio, he accused the “real people that gotta feed their kids” of not playing artists like Frank Ocean and Kid Cudi because they get paid to play the same songs over and over again. (He peppered in plenty of “Radio, f— you!” sound bytes as well.)
It would be his last show of 2016 — a rep for West confirmed to Billboard yesterday (Nov. 21) that the remaining 21 dates of his Saint Pablo Tour are canceled. It also proved to be the last time West’s music would be played on Sacramento’s KHHM Hot 103.5 for “a very long time,” according to the station’s music director, Justin “JayMarzz” Marshall, who went on a lengthy monologue of his own yesterday morning on Hot’s Sugabear in the Morning a.m. show.
In a YouTube clip uploaded by the radio station called “WTFNEWS: JAYMARZZ GOES IN ON KANYE WEST!,” the three morning show DJs begin by playing West’s “Fade” before Marshall stops the record. “That’s the last time you’re going to hear Kanye West’s ‘Fade’ on this radio station — also the last time you hear any Kanye West song on this radio station for a very long time,” he begins, before addressing the Sacramento show and laying out a few reasons for the ban.
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