In September 2009 Kanye West famously snatched the mic out of Taylor Swift’s hands during her acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Taylor had won the award for Best Female Video for “You Belong To Me,” beating out Beyonce‘s “Single Ladies,” West thought Beyonce should have won and let Swift and the world know how he felt.
“Yo Taylor. I’m really happy for you, I’m going to let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time,” West said at the time, before walking off the stage.
The “Jesus Walks” rapper would later apologize to Swift via his Twitter account.
“She had nothing to do with my issues with award shows,” he wrote. “She had no idea what hit her. She’s justa lil girl with dreams like the rest of us. Beyoncé didn’t need that. MTV didn’t need that and Taylor and her family friends and fans definitely didn’t want or need that.”
Apparently the Louis Vuitton Don isn’t over Swift’s win because minute’s after his epic rant in London the other night against Justin Timberlake and the Grammys, he brought up Swift again.
“Taylor Swift beat Beyoncé at the Grammys? Beyoncé be dancing in heels and sh*t,” he said. “And they think they can sweep the sh*t under the f*cking rug. The audacity, the audacity! And everybody thought I was so crazy. Am I the only one that’s not crazy? Because what happens with the bullsh*t like the Taylor Swift beat a Beyonce is that 6-year old that’s dancing hard as hell. She be like ‘f*ck it.'”
West later screamed several times into the mic before throwing it and walking off the stage.
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