Oh, The Lawsuits Kanye Avoided By Preventing This Fan From Climbing Onto His Floating Stage

Carl Williott | September 13, 2016 10:09 am

Kanye West‘s Saint Pablo tour presentation is insane. It’s a Ridley Scott-inspired mobile rig of steel and light, with Kanye himself on a suspended stage that floats over the pit. There’s a legitimate sense of awe, and danger — what if it falls onto the floor crowd, what if Kanye slips? West himself is tethered to the center of the stage so that he doesn’t go tumbling off the thing for a 12 or so foot drop. And that 12 feet also separates him from any fans’ outstretched hands. But we were bound 2 see a fan try to get up there.

At one of his Madison Square Garden shows last week, Kanye stretched out his hands from the ledge and managed to touch a fan who was being hoisted up on someone’s shoulders. At his Atlanta concert last night (September 12), a fan upped the ante by getting the crowd to help lift him up so he could grab onto the rig. Once it looked like the guy was going to actually climb onto the stage, Kanye waved him off.

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West was probably thinking of how the moment would’ve taken away from the elevated, singular Kanye spectacle that is the Pablo show, but he was probably also thinking about the lawsuits that would’ve rolled in had this dude fallen off. That setup’s expensive enough as it is.

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