Kanye West refused to continue performing Friday night, Sept. 12, at Qantas Credit Union Arena in Sydney, Australia until every audience member was on their feet. The only problem was, one of the concert-goers was in a wheelchair and another one was using a prosthetic leg.
"I can't do this show until everybody stand up... Unless you got a handicap pass and you get special parking and sh-t," the 37-year-old rapper said, according to The Daily Beast. "Imma see you if you ain't standing up, believe me, I'm very good at that,"
Shortly after, most of the audience members stood up, but the21-time Grammy-winning recording artist noticed a pair of concert-goers who still remained on their seats. "[There are] two people left who don't want to stand up," said the rapper, causing majority of the crowd booing and jeering at the unknown people, according to Yahoo! Celebrity.
One of those two singled-out fans waved her prosthetic limb, proving that she could not stand up and dance to his music. Kim Kardashian's husband acknowledged her, saying, "Okay, you fine," according to Daily Mail.
But when he saw the other fan still on his seat, the "Bound 2" rapper said, "This is the longest I've had to wait to do a song, it's unbelievable."
Concert-goers surrounding the seated person eventually shouted to the stage that the fan was in a wheelchair. But West still sent his bodyguard Pascal Duvier to find out whether the seated fan was, indeed, in a wheelchair. When it was confirmed, West said, "He is in a wheelchair? It's fine!" Then, he just went straight back into his performance of "Good Life" without giving an apology.
North West's dad was criticized for his behavior on social media. "i know Kanye west likes to think he's Jesus, but telling a wheelchair bound kid to stand up and dance won't help him," wrote @kimmie244 on Twitter.
A concert-goer told TMZ that West "clearly did not mean to offend -- the whole thing is just being blown out of proportion."
The uploader of the video of below said he saw the man in the wheelchair after the show, "very happy, even more stoked that Kanye had spoken to him directly."
Earlier this summer, the rapper even gave his microphone to a wheelchair-bound audience member as a gift, proving that he has no problem with persons with disabilities.