WATCH: Kanye West throws away microphone after technical problems hit gig
He was performing at the Pan Am Games Closing Ceremony
Kanye West threw away his microphone in frustration after sound problems blighted a gig in Toronto last night (26th July).
The rapper was performing at the live televised Pan Am Games Closing Ceremony when technical difficulties affected the sound.
Shortly before he was due to sing ‘Gold Digger’, a clearly irked Kanye lobbed his microphone sky high before it hit the stage and smashed to smithereens. He then proceeded to walk off without saying anything to the crowd.
Watch the moment here:
Kanye had previously performed 'Stronger', 'Power', 'Black Skinhead', 'Can't Tell Me Nothing', 'Touch The Sky', 'The Good Life' and 'All Of The Lights' in front of an estimated global audience of 400million.
Echoing the infamous Glastonbury petition, prior to the event over 50,000 people had signed a similar online petition to remove him from the Pan Am Games Closing Ceremony as he’s not Canadian.
The petition blurb read: “The Toronto Pan Am games have proven to be very important for Torontonians this year and have triggered a unified sense of pride in our city.
“It would only be just to ask a proud Torontonian (or even a Canadian for that matter) in the music industry to perform, such as Drake, Walk Off The Earth, Feist, Metric, Shania Twain, deadmau5, Crystal Castles, Zeds Dead, The Weeknd, Peaches, K'naan, and many many more!"