Kanye

plural Kanyes

1. A male given name.

   Kanye West took to social media to speak about mental health after a fan claimed that the rapper was “off his meds”.

   2022 February 11, Peony Hirwani, “Kanye West tells fan who suggested he’s off medication to ‘be more conscious’”, in The Independent

present singular third person Kanyes · participle present Kanyeing · participle past Kanye'd · past Kanye'd · participle past Kanyed · past Kanyed

1. slangTo interrupt the speech of (someone).

   You Got Kanyed: Seen but Not Heard

   2014, David J. Leonard, “You Got Kanyed: Seen but Not Heard”, in Julius Bailey, editor, The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 45

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   Taylor sings her monologue song on Saturday Night Live with Bill Hader (left) and Jason Sudeikis (right) making sure she doesn’t get Kanye’d again.

   2010, Liv Spencer, Taylor Swift: Every Day Is a Fairytale – The Unofficial Story, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 146

   In what probably put his film on the map more than winning the Oscar itself, the short documentary winner Roger Ross Williams got Kanye’d when accepting his award for “Music by Prudence.” As Mr. Williams, the director, was making his speech, Elinor Burkett, the producer, jumped onstage with him and began talking over him, shades of Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards last year.

   2010 March 8, Melena Ryzik, The Carpetbagger (The New York Times), archived from the original on 17 Mar 2023

   Author’s note: Possibly one in the form of a very short rapper with extreme attention and small man issues who interrupts and insults you during high points of your life, ruins your train of thought, accuses some white guy of not caring about black guys, yells “YOU’VE JUST BEEN KANYE’D!” laughs maniacally, and then scampers off to create more havoc elsewhere.

   2011, Nathan Andrew Roberts, “The Perfect Chapter”, in Randomedy: Novels with Structure, Organization, Fluidity, Cohesion, and Clarity Are for Losers, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 43

   Kanye’d from Kanye West (b. 1977) meaning to have a speech interrupted.

   [2015, Bruce M. Rowe, Diane P. Levine, A Concise Introduction to Linguistics, 4th edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, page 98

   To Swiftly tackle the Taylor debacle / What if he had tossed her a $mirk / When he hi-jacked the VMA mic on that historic MTV night? / Even President Obama said that he behaved like a jerk. / But was Kanye right for saying what he had said? / What if he had simply flashed her a Kanye smile instead? / Mollified Molly with it like a pillow on a bed / Hypnotized her / Kanyed her / Got in her head, / Simply slipped her a Kanye smile like a micky among her meds.

   2018, Nadine Judith Lynch, From the Mind of the Supermassive Black Hole, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN

2. slangTo interrupt (a speech).

   James Corden took the stage with his team. Naturally, I jumped up, ripped the mic out of his hand, and Kanye’d that shit.

   2022, Randy Rainbow, Playing with Myself, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN

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   Roger Ross Williams hopes "God Loves Uganda" will give him another shot at an acceptance speech after his first was "Kanye'd" by a disgruntled collaborator.

   2013 October 30, Chris O'Falt, “Documentarian Ambushed at Oscars Returns With Film on Africa’s Deadly Anti-Gay Campaigns”, in The Hollywood Reporter, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2021

   The G.O.O.D. Music founder may have had a smile on his face when he almost Kanyed Beck's Album of the Year acceptance speech at the Grammys last night — and Beyoncé was laughing when she said "No Kanye, no" from the audience — but his crashing of the stage was no joke.

   2015 February 8, Evelyn Diaz, “Kanye West Pretends to Storm the Stage at Grammy Awards”, in BET, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2023

   Third, when Jay-Z interrupted West at the 2012 BET Awards, and when West repeated his interruption at the 2015 Grammys, they were enacting memetic performances, referencing, replicating, and escalating an embodied behavior for collective appreciation. Alas, others have not widely joined in, and no “Kanyeing” trend has taken off.

   2016, Ryan M. Milner, The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 18