Troubled producer/rapper Kanye West went live on Ustream last night to promote his upcoming album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

West — whose career abruptly vanished after a televised publicity stunt went horribly wrong — is still blaming others (especially the media) for his failures.

It’s pathetic to hear a 33-year-old man constantly go on about how others misunderstand him, when he’s the one who laid the groundwork for that to happen.

In an interview with Hot 97 in NY last week, West said:

“For people to take anything that I’m doing with a negative connotation, people need to look: The glass is half-full or it’s half-empty. Look at what’s his reason behind that. If people can look past what the media presents — the media is scared of me. They’re scared of a black man with this taste level, [yet] this connection with [rappers] like Pusha T, [Young] Jeezy, [Rick] Ross. So what they’ll do, in order to take that power away, they try to turn me into a demon. It happens so many times in history.”

This is so typical of a man with a personality disorder, to insist that others are to blame for his wrongdoings.

Dr. Sam Vaknin, a renowned expert on narcissism, writes that the (average) narcissist is unable to answer the question: “Why did you do what you did?” Or “Why did you choose this mode of action over others available to you under the same circumstances?”

They don’t know the answer because their decisions are made unconsciously.

When Kanye grabbed the mic from Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs last year, he considered himself to be the most important person in the room. It wasn’t about Beyonce or Taylor — it was about him grabbing the spotlight from an up-and-coming superstar because, at that moment, he decided he deserved it more.

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Since that night, Kanye has built up a wall of defenses to counteract his shame and guilt. His therapy is to blame everyone around him for his failures.

Dr. Vaknin recalls the day he realized he was a narcissist himself. He sat in jail and penned his groundbreaking book on narcissism, “Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited“.

“I was sick and needed help penetrating the decades old defences that I erected around me,” he wrote. But he said the “painful process” of writing his book led nowhere.

“I am no different – and no healthier – today,” he says. “My [narcissism] is here to stay, the prognosis is poor and alarming.”

Sadly, Kanye West is no different – and no healthier – today than he was when he tried to steal Taylor Swift’s shine.