Between the time Katrina smashed into Florida and the time it devastated the Gulf Coast, Kanye was livin' it up at the VMA Awards in Miami, granting an interview with MTV in which he talked about his wardrobe, his shoes and his success in the music industry.
Maybe Kanye could've been filming public service announcements instead to try to convince all of "his people" to get their asses out of their low-lying homes that were in the path of a Cat5/Cat4 monster of a storm.