{"id":53482,"date":"2015-06-29T01:24:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53482"},"modified":"2015-06-29T01:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:29:44","slug":"prankster-invades-kanye-west-stage-at-glastonbury-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/29\/prankster-invades-kanye-west-stage-at-glastonbury-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Prankster invades Kanye West stage at Glastonbury Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I Kanye&#39;d Kanye. That was for you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taylorswift13\">@taylorswift13<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Leezus?src=hash\">#Leezus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EQJtZUJqhS\">pic.twitter.com\/EQJtZUJqhS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lee Nelson (@RealLeeNelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealLeeNelson\/status\/615105687681691648\">June 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LONDON &#8212; Kanye West declared himself &#8220;the greatest living rock star on the planet&#8221; at Britain&#8217;s Glastonbury festival. But that didn&#8217;t prevent a prankster from invading the rapper&#8217;s performance and upstaging him.<\/p>\n<p>West&#8217;s headline set Saturday night was briefly interrupted when comedian Lee Nelson stormed onto the stage, rapping along with the star. A security guard quickly bundled him offstage.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Nelson &#8211; whose real name is Simon Brodkin &#8211; tweeted: &#8220;Some people were saying Kanye shouldn&#8217;t headline Glastonbury so I thought I&#8217;d give him a hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s prank amused many fans, who recalled how West crashed Taylor Swift&#8217;s 2009 acceptance speech at the Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The star also gushed over his wife Kim Kardashian, saying she &#8220;brought this poetry out of me.&#8221; The couple arrived at the festival by helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Kanye&#39;d Kanye. That was for you @taylorswift13 #Leezus pic.twitter.com\/EQJtZUJqhS &mdash; Lee Nelson (@RealLeeNelson) June 28, 2015 LONDON &#8212; Kanye &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}