2008 American Music Awards: Just The Good Parts

Good being relative, of course. AMA stands for Auto-Tune Music Award so it wasn't long before Kanye was onstage. Upon accepting his first ever AMA, for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album, Kanye urged his contemporaries to join him in pushing the pop music envelope, a la the Beatles, Hendrix and Zeppelin. "In any other industry, you're supposed to do better than the past, like computers should get smaller and faster," he said. "Whenever you say, 'I wanna be Elvis,' they say, 'What's wrong with you?' Wel...

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