Kanye West grabs the microphone on stage from Taylor Swift and, right, with bottle and
girlfriend Amber Rose. Pictures: AP and Getty Images
Kanye West took to his personal blog Sunday night to issue a quick apology to country-pop sweetheart Taylor Swift for interrupting the singer's acceptance speech in front of the entire music industry at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. Moments after Swift won the MTV VMA for best female video for "You Belong With Me," Kanye West, in a masterful ultra-douche move, hijacked Swift's moment of glory on stage by snatching her microphone and declaring that the award should have gone to Beyoncé for her "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).
"I spoke to her mother right after and she said the same thing my mother would've said," Kanye wrote in his lame explanation that also included an apology to his fans for letting them down.
The most delicious part of of Kanye's fantastical ALL-CAPS beg-a-thon for peace, was when the rap singer referenced lyrics from Swift's winning song (below). As if to acknowledge her talent for spitting catchy prose. "I like the lyrics about being a cheerleader and she's in the bleachers!" That awkward compliment was quickly followed by a rare public admission of wrong doing by West along with other ramblings. "I'm in the wrong for going on stage and taking away from her moment".
Shortly after 11:25 Pacific Time, the Kanye West blog was pulled down for site upgrades, making access to his very public mea culpa temporarily unavailable. When the blog came back less than ten minutes later, West's apology post was nowhere to be found. It was apparently taken down from the website. How could he be so heartless?
I would like to sum up Kanye's pathetic performance at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards with the immortal words of mister Jamie Foxx; "Blame it on the vodka, blame it on the henny... Blame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol, blame it on the ah-ah ah-ah ah-al-co-hol." (watch video below)
KANYE WEST IS A LEGEND - Leg-end ya mean. The guy is a tosser.
Posted by: Christo | October 05, 2009 at 07:10 AM
KANYE WEST IS A LEGEND
Posted by: John Smith | October 01, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Did kanye kill any one? No. Did he hit somebody? No. Did he apoligize? Yes. Several times. If there is any good left in any of you people, you would forgive and 4get. How would you want 2 be treated if you were in kanye's shoes.... Yeah, I thought so
Posted by: Anonomyous | September 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM
I hate to make it a race thing, because I'm sure there's other trash out there doing the same thing in less public ways, but trash like Kanye and Michael Vick who do nothing but disgrace their profession should be removed from the public's eye.
Posted by: Jeff Miller | September 15, 2009 at 11:54 AM
I find this to be very entertaining and Kanye entertains me as a court jester would, although he is serious. I just think all awards ceremonies are just like circuses in a way. Think about it there all in the entertaimment business to make us lose focus on the real issues in life.
Omar.
Posted by: Omar | September 15, 2009 at 05:44 AM
Kanye was just voicing his opinion, and thats fine. But that was not a good time to say that! I mean really, how rude of him just to grap the mic and completely shatter the moment. She was sooo happy and then, it was so embaassing for her. Kanye has problems. Now he has totaly distroyed his reputation. Im sorry Taylor!!
Posted by: Autumn Meierle | September 15, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Kayne is a jerk, now that Bush is out, he has nothing political to say. I do have to say, it was very classy of Beyonce to give that moment back. That is truly a class act.
Posted by: Patty | September 14, 2009 at 04:52 AM