Kanye West performed at the closing ceremonies of the Pan Am Games in Toronto yesterday. After some technical difficulties he entered himself into the new mic tossing competition. WATCH IT HERE
Welcomed with a hearty roar, Kanye West ran through a career-spanning collection of his hits to close out a Pan Am Games headlined by a harder, better, faster, stronger Canada — until a faulty microphone didn’t let the rapper finish.
Nearly 40,000 spectators packed Toronto’s Rogers Centre to raise a toast to Canada’s athletes — and their record-setting 217-medal haul — at the Pan Am Games closing ceremony, and West’s surprisingly long performance would have put an exclamation point on the evening, already marked by a flamboyant fireworks display lighting up the CN Tower like a rainbow-leafed palm tree, if not for the sound gaffe.
West tried in vain for a period of time to overcome the error, before tossing his mic high into the air and letting it smash while he stalked offstage.