3 Accidentally Offensive Moments from the 12/12/12 Concert

Don't watch that video expecting your favorite Nirvana hits, though. Instead, the "reunited Nirvana" played one nearly unidentifiable song and immediately exited the stage without saying a word. They didn't follow it up by tearing through "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or anything. They certainly didn't play "Mexican Seafood" or "Negative Creep" like we were kind of hoping they would.

They just left the stage as quickly as they walked on, and Paul went back to playing Wings tunes with his band. And most importantly, they never mentioned Kurt Cobain. Not by name, not even once.

Instead, fans hoping to hear something, anything Nirvana-related were treated to Paul McCartney's idea of grunge. In case you're wondering, the song they played was called "Cut Me Some Slack." It's like they knew that people were going to hate it before they even took the stage.

Kanye West wore a leather kilt and leather leggings onstage during his performance. That information, in conjunction with this photo ...

Why is this happening?

... would totally be enough to fill the comedy requirements of this entry. But it gets better. Take a look at this picture:

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Science, is that you?

That's what's on the back of that sweatshirt he's wearing. Science nerds will recognize that word, Pyrex, as the super durable glass that's used to make beakers and test tubes. The problem is, in rap music, it's also a reference to one of the key materials used in cooking crack cocaine. If you don't believe that the two are intrinsically linked, this Popular Science article about how an alteration in the makeup of Pyrex measuring cups sold at Walmart dramatically affected the production of crack should put your doubts to rest.

Alternately, you could do some poor man's scientific exploration of your own by running the words "rap lyrics Pyrex" through a search engine of your choosing. Here's what you get:

Of course there's a Christmas song!

Every one of those songs listed is by a different artist. We're just saying, as far as references go, Pyrex is a pretty powerful one in rap music, and it refers to a very specific thing. Be it intentional or not, by wearing that sweatshirt, Kanye West was slyly endorsing crack cocaine, which you might recognize as the last thing that destroyed large areas of New York and New Jersey.