In an incident unbefitting of a festival named 'Big Chill,' Kanye West delivered a long, winding rant and claimed that people's perception of him rivals that of Adolf Hitler during a headlining set at the U.K. music fest on Saturday (Aug. 6).

After apologizing to the crowd for starting his set late, West delved into the reasons why he remains misunderstood, all over a piano loop. "I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm f--king insane, like I'm Hitler," he says beginning at the 6:40 mark. "One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did, ever said, was to throw myself on the blade for the sake of someone else."

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The rapper blamed the media for portraying him as unreasonable instead of a perfectionist who wants to "make a better product for y'all." He specifically discussed the 2006 incident in which his clip for "Touch the Sky" lost Video of the Year at the MTV Europe Music Awards, causing the rapper to deliver an onstage outburst. "I just wanted to stand up and look at everyone and say, 'Am I the only one here who's NOT crazy?'" he told the crowd.

West also defended his controversial "Monster" music video, claiming that the dark clip that featured lifeless white women was not misogynistic but "completely artistic… They couldn't understand how a rapper can have a taste or sensibility high enough to do something like that without it being misogynistic."

West's Big Chill speech is the latest outburst for the rapper, who famously spouted that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" during a 2005 Hurricane Katrina telethon and interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. "Watch The Throne," his highly anticipated joint album with Jay-Z, was released digitally today.

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