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KANYE BOOED AT BONNAROO: Crowd turns on rapper after he takes the stage some 2 hours late.
*Kanye West's performance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival early Sunday was preceded with lots of boos from the crowd and periodic chants of "Kanye sucks" because his performance was delayed for nearly two hours.
The set was supposed to begin at 2:45 a.m. Sunday morning, but West didn't take the main stage until 4:25 a.m., according to the Associated Press. The holdup was blamed on problems setting up his elaborate stage set, which included an interplanetary landscape of a wavy black platform with a slanted floor in the middle and a video screen above.
Ken Weinstein, a spokesman for the annual festival held on a 700-acre site south of Nashville, also points a finger at the band Pearl Jam, who went an hour past its scheduled end time, playing until about 1:15 a.m.
Thousands of sleepy fans tried to hang in there until 2:45 a.m. But when a message on the jumbotrons told them his show would be delayed until 3:15 a.m., and when that didn't happen, that he would start at 3:30, audience members became restless and began booing. Some displayed their frustration by pelting glow sticks at the empty stage.
Midway through his performance, the morning light showed that the crowd had dwindled substantially. According to the AP, West had originally been slated to perform at 8:15 p.m. Saturday night, but requested a late night performance. At least in the first hour of his performance, West didn't address the crowd regarding the delay.
Later Sunday, the Bonnaroo crowd was still upset. Pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph led a "Kanye sucks" chant.
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