Kanye West defends wheelchair scandal

Kanye West performs live. Photo / Getty Images

Kanye West has come up with his defence for asking a wheelchair user and a concertgoer with a prosthetic leg to stand up during his concert in Sydney on Friday.

The clip, in which West insists he can't continue until everyone is standing, has blown up online and West has been called out for insisting two disabled people needed to stand up - before he realised they were disabled.

"There's two people left they don't want to stand up," West said, looking out into the crowd at Sydney's Qantas Credit Union Arena.

"This is the longest I've had to wait to do a song, it's unbelievable".

"If he's in a wheelchair, then it's fine," he said.

Gossip website TMZ is running a video filmed at one of West's recent concerts where he defends the gaffe.

While it's hard to make out exactly what West is saying in the fan footage, his point is clear: he's a good guy so please pick on someone else.

"Look at me for a second. Take a step back and look at this, I'm a married Christian man with a family," he says to the crowd.

"At my concerts I make sure everybody has as good a time as possible ... pick a new target," he says.

West played a second gig in Sydney on Saturday night and his final Australian concert at the Brisbane Entertainment centre on Monday night.

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- AAP