Vince’s Kanye crack: Not an ‘ounce of ill will’
Vince Gill tells me he didn’t mean anything by it when he zinged Kanye West at the Grammys.
See Vince’s crack and his reaction by clicking HERE.
If you missed it, Ringo Starr handed Vince a trophy, for best country album, and Vince said: “I just got an award given to me by a Beatle. Have you had that happen yet, Kanye?”
The crowd went bonkers, and Kanye smiled.
Vince said it was a response to something Kanye said earlier in the show when Kanye won best rap album.
Vince and Kanye were both up for the all-genre album of the year Grammy, as were Amy Winehouse, The Foo Fighters and Herbie Hancock.
When Kanye won for rap album, he said, in part: “For (Winehouse producer) Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse, if I don’t get to get up here for album of the year, you deserve it just as much as me. I deserve it too.”
That didn’t sit too well with Vince.
“I felt like that kinda slammed me and Herbie and the Foo Fighters,” he said.
But Vince said he wasn’t stewing about it, and Vince’s retort was “off the cuff” and meant to be funny.
“I saw that he was laughing after I said it. So I was grateful I wasn’t gonna get my butt whupped,” he said, laughing.
Vince said he went to find Kanye at an after party to “hug his neck,” but they never found each other.
“There wasn’t an ounce of ill will,” Vince said.
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