This is actually a really sweet and touching video if you stop watching it around :35. It's like Freddie Mercury is in skeptical disbelief that one of today's most prominent musicians would pay tribute to him, and that disbelief turns into tickled flattery as the crowd joins in singing one of his songs so long after he's been gone.

So many of yall are missing the very point of music. It's not some pissing contest where musicians are trying to shit all over their counterparts and tear each other down. At the end of the day, musicians, regardless of genre or time period, are trying to connect their art with people and connect people with each other. Whether we're talking about Queen or Kanye, Beethoven or Carly Rae Jepsen, that's the point of music, to reach past the ugly divisiveness of the world and unite in some kind of human beauty.

Kanye isn't taking a great song for his own personal glory. He knows he can't even almost sing like Freddie Mercury. But he's pushing his own personal glory aside and risking criticism like the stuff in this thread in order to say, I have a huge amount of respect for this man who has brought me a huge amount of enjoyment. Let me share that with you. In hip-hop the saying goes, "Real recognize real," and in rock the saying goes, "You gotta pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues."

This tribute is especially meaningful because like Kanye, Freddie's critics said he was too flashy, too full of himself. Rather than writing off another great because they're not what we want them to be or what we're used to, let's appreciate them the way they appreciate each other.