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Lee Nelson Kanyed Kanye West at Glastonbury 2015, Avenged Taylor Swift

Almost 140,000 fans had signed a petition demanding that rapper be removed as headliner for the festival

Jun 29, 2015 11:20 GMT  ·  By
Lee-zus vs. Yeezus: comedian Lee Nelson stage-crashes Kanye West at Glastonbury 2015
   Lee-zus vs. Yeezus: comedian Lee Nelson stage-crashes Kanye West at Glastonbury 2015

Kanye West headlined the 2015 edition of the Glastonbury festival in Somerset, despite protests and an online petition with almost 140,000 signatures demanding that he be removed. However, his performance didn’t go off without a glitch, as you can see in the video below.

Kanye West got Kanyed. Comedian Lee Nelson took it upon himself to show the rapper that he was a persona non grata at the festival and, at the same time, to avenge Taylor Swift, so he pulled a typically Kanye move on Kanye.

Kanye gets Kanyed

As you can see in the video and the tweets below, the interruption was planned in advance. Nelson was probably one of the thousands of festival goers who believed Kanye did not deserve to be a headliner, so he equipped himself with a Lee-zus T-shirt (a spoof on Kanye’s Yeezus merchandise) and lots of guts to get past security.

So as Kanye was about to launch into a new song, Nelson strolled on stage and gave him a taste of his own medicine: here’s how it feels like when someone tries to steal your thunder on what it’s supposed to be your big night.

Nelson didn’t touch the rapper or even come too close to him, sticking to just mimicking his moves and mouthing to the words. A visible confused Kanye motioned towards security and then watched as the intruder was escorted off stage.

He picked up the song from the top once Lee-zus was gone.

Kanye proclaims himself “greatest living rock star on the planet”

And then, this happened: Kanye closed his show by proclaiming himself the greatest living rock star on the planet, much to the amusement of commenters on Twitter.

Kanye may be a lot of things and he may say he’s even more things, but a rock star he is not.

“I’m going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight… You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet!,” Kanye informed festival goers.

Reactions on Twitter ranged from “what?!,” to a more direct “lol, sit down Kanye, you are not,” and to complete outrage at having someone who uses Auto-Tune and doesn’t play a single instrument claim he’s the best.