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It's been a ridiculously newsworthy couple of days for Kanye West: He unveiled a collaboration with Steve McQueen in Los Angeles on Friday night, then grabbed some more attention when he appeared on the Sunday-night premiere of Caitlyn Jenner's reality show I Am Cait to meet its leading lady and talk about his shoes.
And on Sunday, he closed out the Pan Am Games—the international sports competition of the Pan American Sports Organization, in which the United States has, uh, been participating for the last two weeks—with a 13-minute set at its Closing Ceremony in Toronto. Before he could perform “All of the Lights” and “Good Life,” however, his mic cut out.
Never one to express himself in traditional or familiar ways, West decided to end his set abruptly and walk offstage not with a mic drop, but with something more like a mic launch: He tossed his handheld microphone up into the air and out toward the audience rather than down toward the stage.
What might we call this newly coined gesture of done-with-this-shit-ness? A mic toss? Mic heave? Mic chuck? Let's assume this watchful guy in Team Mexico gear narrating for his friends in the foreground of this video is saying mic chuck. All hail.