He ruined her big winning moment and rained on her parade with a tactless, neanderthal outburst on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards. But now he's sorry, so very sorry. Aren't you,
Kanye West
?
Rapper West remained true to his history of on-stage rants by storming the stage at yesterday's VMAs, rudely interrupting country-pop sweetheart
Taylor Swift
's acceptance speech after she bagged the award for Best Female Video.
The king of hissy fits - who had reportedly
on the red carpet - stopped a dumb-struck Taylor mid-speech, grabbed the microphone from her hand and launched into one of his trademark pussy-bum rants.
He imparted that while he was happy that 19-year-old Swift had triumphed, the world needed to know who he thought should have been handed the award -
Beyoncé
.
"I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time," he blurted before the slack-jawed audience, including Beyoncé whose "I can't believe you just said that" expression was caught on camera.
Cue a sea of boos from the crowd, followed by a dumbfounded and on-the-verge-of-tears Swift being shuffled off stage with her wee moonman. The televised awards show then cut straight to a commercial.
West, on the other hand, was later escorted from the building. Although conflicting reports claim cockahoop West remained as ballsy as ever and flipped the crowd a birdie before retiring to his seat.
Throughout the rest of the ceremony, the mere mention of West's name drew jeers and cheers of "Taylor! Taylor!" from the audience.
'I don't want to start anything'
Thumbs up to Taylor Swift for taking the higher ground and not stooping to West's lower than a snake's belly level. Speaking backstage about the bizarre incident, she told Usmagazine.com:
"I was standing on stage and I was really excited because I had just won the award and then I was really excited because Kanye West was on the stage," Taylor said.
"And then I wasn't so excited anymore after that."
Despite West's meddling, Swift won't be losing any sleep over the incident. She's had oodles of support from all over.
"I've been getting so many text messages. Everybody's been really nice so I've had a really really fun night," she added. "It's been interesting definitely. It's definitely been an interesting night."
But while West is currently as popular as a fart in a phone booth, Swift says she doesn't hold a grudge against him.
"I don't know him and I've never met him," she said.
"You know I just... I don't know him and I don't want to start anything because I just, you know, I had a great night tonight."
Saint Knowles
But every cloud has a silver lining. Swift got a second chance at her winning moment when a gracious Beyoncé Knowles accepted her Video of the Year award at the end of the evening.
While acceping her Moonman, Knowles invited swift on stage so she could finish her speech.
Awwwwwwww.
"This is amazing," Knowles said. "I remember being 17-years-old, up for my first MTV award with Destiny's Child and it was one of the most exciting moments of my life, so I would like for Taylor to come out and have her moment."
Taylor tottered on stage in a red dress similar to Knowles' and thanked her fans.
"Maybe we could try this again?" a nervous Swift said, before launching into her acceptance speech.
Mea culpa
Moments after his brain fart, a sheepish West grabbed '
' and gal pal
Amber Rose
and hot footed it from the ceremony. Swiftly followed by one of his trademark verbal diarrhea,
which addressed the stage-stomping incident.
(Blog entry edited for clarity)
"I'm sooooo sorry to Taylor Swift and her fans and her mom," he wrote.
"I spoke to her mother right after and she said the same thing my mother would've said. She is very talented! I like the lyrics about being a cheerleader and she's in the bleachers! I'm in the wrong for going on stage and taking away from her moment!
"Beyoncé's video was the best of this decade!!!! I'm sorry to my fans if I let you guys down!!!! I'm sorry to my friends at MTV. I will apologise to Taylor 2mrw."
And at that point West put the kibosh on his act of contrition and showed his true colours, rather like a narcissistic peacock with only vainglorious, selfish strutting in mind.
"Welcome to the real world!!!!," he added.
"Everybody wanna booooo me but I'm a fan of real pop culture!!! No disrespect but we watchin' the show at the crib right now cause ... well you know!!!! I'm still happy for Taylor!!!! Boooyaaawwww!!!! You are very very talented!!! I gave my awards to Outkast when they deserved it over me ... That's what it is!!!!!!! I'm not crazy y'all, i'm just real. Sorry for that!!! I really feel bad for Taylor and I'm sincerely sorry!!! Much respect!!!!!"
West's post has since been removed from his blog. Chicken.
Photos: The MTV Video Music Awards (16 pics)
And no, boys and girls, we're not the only ones gum-flapping about Kanye Pest's Idiot Island antics. Here's what some celebs are saying about the incident on Twitter:
Pink:
"Kanye West is the biggest piece of s*** on earth. Quote Me,"
Pink:
"My heart goes out to taylor swift. She is a sweet and talented girl and deserved her moment. She should know we all love her."
Carey Hart:
"@Kanyewest you are a piece of f*ckin sh*t. If @pink had won and you did that I would have beat your f*ckin ass. Sorry piece of sh*t."
Joel Madden:
"All i'm saying is Taylor Swift is a young chic and you just walk up and grab the mic."
Katy Perry:
"F*** you Kanye. It's like U stepped on a kitten."
But the biggest vat of vitriol came from
Kelly Clarkson
, who penned an open letter to the rapper. And it's all shades of deliciously nasty:
"Dear Kanye," she said.
"what happened to you as a child?? Did you not get hugged enough?? Something must have happened to make you this way and I think we're all just curious as to what would make a grown man go on national television and make a talented artist, let alone teenager, feel like sh*t.
"I mean, I've seen you do some pretty shitty things, but you just keep amazing me with your tactless, a***** ways. It's absolutely fascinating how much I don't like you. I like everyone. I even like my a****** ex that cheated on me over you...which is pretty odd since I don't even personally know you.
"The best part of this evening is that you weren't even up for THIS award and yet you still have a problem with the outcome. Is winning a moon man that much of a life goal?? You can have mine if it will shut you up. Is it that important, really??
"I was actually nominated in the same category that Taylor Swift won and I was excited for her...so why can't you be?? I'm not even mad at you for being an a**hole...I just pity you because you're a sad human being.
"On a side note, Beyonce has always been a class act and proved again tonight that she still is. Go TEXAS!!
"Taylor Swift, you outsell him ....that's why he's bitter. You know I love your work! Keep it up girl!"
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Take a leap off ego rock, West. You may be talented, but the way you behaved was tactless and totally inappropriate.
Tell you what, had that been us up there on that stage drinking in our special moment, slipping into a celebratory monologue, only to be rudely interrupted by a 'comedian' who proclaims to be pop's messiah, we'd have shoved that microphone...
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