VIDEO: KANYE WEST INTERRUPTS TAYLOR SWIFT’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH + HIS APOLOGY

September 14th, 2009

It what was the top WTF moment of the night, Kanye West rushed onto the stage and protested country singer Taylor Swift’s win for Best Female Video, proclaiming Beyonce should have won. “I’m sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time,” ‘Ye proclaimed after he pulled the microphone out of the country star’s hands. Beyonce looked stunned and lipped “No, Kanye” as she sat by in the audience.

Word quickly spread on Twitter that the popular star and his girlfriend Amber Rose were escorted out of the venue and a couple of hours later Kanye posted this apology on his blog:

I’M SOOOOO SORRY TO TAYLOR SWIFT AND HER FANS AND HER MOM. 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!…………….. BEYONCE’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 APOLOGIZE TO TAYLOR 2MRW. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!!!! 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 YALL, I’M JUST REAL. SORRY FOR THAT!!! I REALLY FEEL BAD FOR TAYLOR AND I’M SINCERELY SORRY!!! MUCH RESPECT!!!!!

Definitely not a good look for Kanye right now.

  1. 1.
    cali panamami

    uh oh! kanye’s in the dog house again……lol

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  2. 2.
    steez

    no shockin tht kanye did something like tht

    whatta punk!

    still love his music though, \=

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  3. 3.
    NYGritty

    IM GLAD KANYE DID THIS

    WAIT UNTIL YOU GUYS SEE AMBER’S VMA OUTFIT

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  4. 4.
    cali panamami

    now we have yet another unnecessary pop culture trivia question…LOL
    dang, ‘ye.

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    BrittanyBeauty1

    Kanye I love ya to death but you was trippen tonight and what’s up with the apology and all caps it’s killing me lmao it looked like t swizzle was going to cry

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  6. 6.
    Caramel_Cutie

    Was it wrong that I laughed? lol

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  7. OMG. KANYE IS SO CHILDISH AND IMMATURE. I BET HE IS A DAMN MESS WHEN HE GETS WASTED, CRYING AND SHIT. I WAS SO EMBARASSED FOR AMBER. I BET SHE CANT WAIT TO QUIT HIS ASS, HE DESERVES TO BE USED! IT REALLY TAKES A CERTAIN KIND OF WOMAN TO DEAL WITH KANYE, WITHOUT BOPPING HIM UPSIDE THE HEAD. I SEE WHY ALEXIS GOT THE FUCK UP OUT OF DODGE. KANYE ACTS LIKE A CHILD.

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    Giselle

    I just want 5 mins with him so I can kick his ass. That was ignorant!

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  9. 9.
    martinalutherking

    Let him live! It’s an outrage this girl won anything…I’m w/ him 100%!

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    Liya

    Taylor Swift is 5′ll, Kanye is like 4 feet. There would have been a fight if he tried to take the mic out of my hands during my speech!! I love how he gives it back to her, I would have thrown it at him.

    I feel bad for Taylor she looked so sad and she really is a sweet girl, (although she goes in the Cassie category when it comes to actual singing) She looked like someone just stole her cookies from her on the play ground. It was awkward.

    Kanye has about as much class as his little stripper hoe!

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    Natalia

    Kanye is a little BITCH!

    I bet he wouldn’t have grabbed the mic from a black artist. He would have gotten his ass beat!

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    mrs. sk8board p (ak & bk stan)

    Kanye, your impossible.

    I love him to pieces, b/c of his honesty and his fearlessness. But the disrespect he displayed tonight was unacceptable. I felt so bad for Taylor after. I really want to know WTF be going through Kanye’s head, and why he felt it was his prerogative to go up and stage and declare Beyonce’ the one who should’ve won (which is the truth). Bey wasn’t feeling no type of way, so I don’t understand why HE had a problem. That called for a “Kanye who the f**k are you” moment. But as usual when the man knows he’s wrong for his the way he’s behaved he steps up and apologizes. Kuddos for that. I’m just so tired of these antics. Oh the white people are coming for that ass Yeezy.

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  13. 13.
    yup

    Damn Kanye when will you learn not to act on impulse??!!! Taylor Swift can’t sing and her video did indeed suck but that kid did not deserve you being a rude a$$ baby.

    Getting riled up over a Beyonce vs. Taylor Swift video award is sooo damn suspect homie!! I still love you but damn damn damn!!!

    Beyonce has a great PR team behind her. A combination of her being an actual human being and a quick thinking team. Good for her

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    johnosahon

    kanye is suffering from “single child syndrome”. they are known to go into rants when they don’t get their way.

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  15. 15.
    ThisCaliGirl

    Kanye F***ed up.Taylor Swift is like God of the white celebrities. Plus she’s sold over 10 MILLION albums in the last 2 years. He really should have just kept his ass in his seat.

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    yup

    Waiting for the Beyonce haters to say it was all staged and that “Daddy Knowles” set this whole charade up. You haters are just as bad as the stans. You both worship her.

    3,2,1 Let it begin

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  17. 17.
    OUTLOOK

    THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE NOT ONLY DID U HUMILATE HER ON LIVE TV TOTALLY DISRESPECTED HER UNCALLED FOR NOTHING WAS REAL ABOUT VOICING AN OPINION THAT COULD HAVE BEEN KEPT AMONGEST YOURSELF HE IS BEYOND CHILDISH AND ARROGANT THINK BEFORE YOU ACT GROWN ASS MAN GROW THE FUCK UP NOTHING MORE THEN A BITCH WHINNING ALL THE DAMN TIME BE HUMBLE FOR ONCE ….

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  18. 18.
    eagle.

    My God, WTF does it have to do with anything if you feel she should not have won?

    She won and that’s all that matters; Kanye was soooo disrespectful.

    Funnily enough, if ‘Ye was in Taylors shoes homie would have burned down all of Radio City Music Hall, smh.

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    MADVILLIANY

    NIGGA SHYT! THASS A DAMN SHAME

    HE CAN’T BE PROFESSIONAL ENOUGH TO LET THAT LIL GIRL HAVE HER MOMENT

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    Jvixen

    It doesn’t matter if Beyonce should have won, his actions were very disrespectful! You cannot do the whole “im doing it for popular culture” crap to justify that inappropiate stupidity. This is how award shows work – u win some, u loose some!! Couldn’t he have waited til he got home & wrote it in his blog or something?! Kmt.

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    GOOD GRIEF

    ……What really broke my heart, was the expression on Taylor’s face right after it
    ……happened. She looked shocked, sad & embarrassed. I felt so sorry 4 her.
    ……I was so heated at Ye……..I almost jumped through the Television Screen.

    ……I don’t know what I’m more pissed at……….his behavior, or his whack apology.
    ……Lord please forgive me, but now I really truly hate Kanye.
    ……I am so over his conceited, arrogant, disrespectful *bleep*!!!!
    ……He’s pulled his last string with me.

    ……SHAME ON YOU KANYE PEST!

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  22. 22.
    Caramel_Cutie

    Kanye better stop before they start making his ass sit in the far back next to the manager…by the closest exit…

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  23. 23.
    wattsroit

    Kanye is an AZZZZZZZZhole!!!!!!!! I hate him, never liked him and I sold his first CD I purchased unopened and for the same price I bought it for, happy I got my money back. He’ll learn he’s not God and he’s gonna end up just like R Kelly, a musical genius but nobody will want to work with him, he’ll soon be forgotten, and won’t be missed by many. If he wants to be remembered for his music, he should quite acting like an idoit and focus on the music, his music and not Beyonce’s video’s she has plenty of awards, she’ll be ok!

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  24. 24.
    BEYDABESS

    DIS DUDE DONT GOT NO HART N HE THINKS ITS ALL ABOWT HIM!!

    KANYE U NEED TOO BE MORE LIKE BEY.
    BEY IZ A HUBLE SWEAT PERSIN UNLIKE U.

    BEY LUV HER FANS N SHE IZ PERFECT UNLIKE U.

    DAT WAZ SO RUDE N UNCALL FORE

    WE NEAD TOO BAN DIZ MAN FRUM DA AWARDZ FRUM NO ON!!!

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    Sexy

    I am embarrassed to say I am a KW fan. He gets no more support from me. This was beyond stupid. And he had the nerve to say it’s the best vid of the decade?! Jay-Z is straight up putting his wife’s pu**** in his drinks.

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    Lovely Posture

    Please that was completely staged!!! And people need to realize that…all the sudden Kayne comes and snacthes the mic…Beyonce acts surprised…performs….wins…and let the girl talk on her time yea right …her imaged was sooo damaged she had to come up with something…there is nothing classy about her

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  27. 27.
    FancyFace

    he’s too damn fine to be acting like that.

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  28. 28.
    Milzy

    Straight ignorant & disrespectful!! Regardless of whether Bey should have won; fact is she didn’t! Ye embarrassed himself, Bey & Taylor. I felt bad for her…she looked like she was about to cry! Ye’s ass was prolly drunk of all that Hennessy! What a punk!

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  29. 29.
    LOL

    HEY NOW AT LEAST THE MAN DID APOLOGIZE. NOW LET’S FORGIVE AND FORGET (RIGHT CHRIS BROWN STANS??)

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  30. 30.
    No Shade

    Y’all know damn well ain’t no Taylor Swift deserve to win sh*t. Give me a break! Kanye was right! Matter of fact I say retract that apology Yeezy! You have nothing to be sorry for. You and Serena both need to stick by what you said. NO apology necessary! Who cares if the public is mad? Y’all was both right!

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  31. 31.
    yup

    @Lovely Posture

    Get your old conspiracy theory a$$ out of here. Get back on your meds homie!! Ppl already have their minds made up about Beyonce. I doubt this whole little ordeal will change that. “OMG Beyonce was so nice to that Taylor chick I’m gonna start liking her now”. SMH

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  32. 32.
    AG

    What an ass!!! He’s not sincere! He’s done it before and he’ll do it again! No award show should EVER invite him! If you win that’s because you deserve it. And him complaining why he didn’t win (past awards). Abviously he wasn’t good enough. He’s cocky and cries a lot! GROW UP KANYE!!!! IF YOUR MOTHER WAS STILL ALIVE SHE WOULD WOOP YOUR ASS!!!! YOU COLLEGE DROPOUT SHITHEAD!!!

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    GOOD GRIEF

    …….By the way,

    …….Yey Janet…….babygirl, that tribute was beyond fiyah, you go girl :) !

    …….Besides Michael, can’t nobody touch Janet,

    …….NOBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  34. 34.
    NoMoSoul

    KANYE MAN WTF were you thinking?????? You know that girl is just 19. You KNOW that girl sings COUNTRY MUSIC. YOu know Country Music fans DONT PLAY. THey support the hell outta they office.

    I missed the whole Kanye incident when it happened so my a@s was confused as hell when everyone started Booing him whenever his name was mentioned (Ex. Diddy making a joke out of it) So then I saw it over, saw Taylor swift’s horrified kindergaten face and LAUGHED MY A@S OFF. Kanye is a str8 up @sshole. Gonna keep illegally downloading his sh!t!

    Oh damn…I feel the worst. Kanye them white folks are COMING FOR YO ASS!
    It’s inevitable.

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  35. 35.
    G

    shit was funny!

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  36. 36.
    ummm..

    oh you know all them white people that actually listen to taylor swift are PISSED!

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  37. 37.
    The Undead

    For the people who say things like, “Aint no Taylor Swift supposed to win shit anyways”.. or whatever your buffoon ass comments are….

    Apparently you have no idea who this young lady is and how popular she is with the pop/country crowd. She was voted for by the majority and won. Plain and simple. Regardless of how he felt when Taylor’s name was called, he should have sat his ass down and discussed his disappointment with his friends. (Or drowned his anger in that bottle)

    I love Beyonce. She stood in the shadow of her own win and let Taylor thank the fans who voted for her. I was on the phone with a friend and all we could do was praise her for that!

    To Ye’: You talk so much about being the icon and face of your generation and culture. In reality you’re the face of every arrogant asshole and idiot who breathes. Congratulations, King Tool.

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  38. 38.
    ~*Just Rayne*~

    Kanye was DEAD WRONG! He picked the WRONG white girl cause EVERYBODY loves Taylor. That was just sooo uncalled for! Poor thing, didn’t know what to do. I felt so bad for her….hello kanye wake up and look around @ where you are! This is MTV jackass! Of course yo black ass is gone get boo’d the rest of the night and rightly so…. Uuugh just pure coonery!

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    sweetme01

    WOW! Evertytime I think KANYE can not up the shock value he proves me wrong.

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  40. 40.
    YOYO

    THIS IS SO SAD…THE VIDEO CAN’T BE WATCHED IN MY COUNTRY..AND BESIDES THAT: IT DIDN’T EVEN AIR ON MTV IN HOLLAND..I WISH THEY PUT THE SHOW ON SOON, SO I CAN RELATE TO EVERYONES REACTIONS…

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  41. 41.
    SLICK1HIT

    DAMN and ima kanye west fan 2,ye is too old to be doing sh!t like that,thats was so disrespectful in so many ways,it was very ignorant and stupid,and what kills me is that it was taylor swifts first vma award,dude lacks common sence seriously,all i kno is if i was receiving an award,and kanye interupted me i would of knock his ass out cold.

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  42. 42.
    CocoChanel

    Once upon a time, Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal lost an MTV award to Paula Abdul’s Straight Up. Was Paula doing her thing back then, yes. Was it better than Michael, not even close. There’s always going to be someone that people thought should have gotten an honor that didn’t. It’s all in how you handle things and there’s no excuse for how Kanye did that. It was bad enough when he did it a few years back for an award he lost, but he didn’t even learn from that, then he follows up with a apology that barely drips sincerity. He’s too grown to lack that much tact. He wouldn’t have pulled that BS on Pink though. Pink would have dug in that ass.

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  43. 43.
    What?

    #16 “yup”

    STFU!!! You were the only one to bring Beyonce name up so ur the one who is obsessed with her, dumb h**!

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  44. 44.
    FOOT IN THE MOUTH

    Didn’t Kanye learned anything from Jamie Fox… leave these YOUNG WHITE GIRLS alone, because you will end up being sorry.

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  45. 45.
    annie :-) beyoncéstan92

    ugh, they look disgusting… and Amber looks so trashy (and it’s sad that that body suit prolly costs more then my car). eww, i can’t stand these people.

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  46. 46.
    annie :-) beyoncéstan92

    ^oops, wrong post lol^
    Kanye’s an asshole btw. while i agree with him, he shoulda nvr done that.

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  47. 47.
    SJ

    @Giselle saying you need 5 mins alone with Kanye! lolololololol

    My friend and I were on the phone saying we need to go uptown and kick Kanye ass! for real! That punk ass fool had no right to steal someone else shine! I don’t care how real he is! He is a BLACK MAN messing with a WHITE GIRL, and they are going to let him have it!

    I’m no Beyonce fan but, she wanted to win that Video of the year award and she had to step aside and let Taylor make her speech. In away Kanye took away Beyonce shine and he should apology to her also!

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    JESSICA

    KANYE GROW UP AND LEARN SOME MANNERS. THAT WAS RUDE AND DIRESPECTFUL. I GUESS U REALLY ARE HEARTLESS. TAYLOR DESERVED TO WIN THAT AWARD. BEYONCE SINGLE LADIES VIDEO SUCKED. U HAVE OFFICALLY LOST ME AS A FAN.

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  49. 49.
    Shag

    He’s an arrogant ass, who’ll wind-up like Allen Iverson if he keeps it up. On a poor team, making 18 million less than the previous year. Anyone that supports his bullshit can’t be mad at Rep. Wilson calling Pres. Obama a liar, durinr the pres.’s speech the other night.

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  50. 50.
    Jay

    Damn this is going to make CNN

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  51. 51.
    Jay

    he single handily killed have his fan base or more and joined Chris on the boat of shame.

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  52. 52.
    Qudoubleen

    Ye was tripping by storming the stage. But Sen. Joe Wilson just called my President a liar right in the middle of his televised speech and now that chump is on a press tour. I’m just saying, if folks are gonna give Wilson a pass; Ye gets a pass.

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  53. 53.
    sigh

    I don’t understand why everbody is defending Taylor? Kick ‘Ye’s @ss? For real? Over some white chick? I agree with Kanye, Taylor shouldn’t have won, and if he wanted to storm the stage and vent his feelings, then good for him! And I watched her performance afterwards, just shaking my head. That girl has zero talent..!

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  54. 54.
    KD

    Jessica, enough with the many posts under different names. I can see that you are trying to rile up the Beyonce fans, but just as she showed class by giving Taylor Swift her time to shine, I’ll show some class and let your dumbass off.

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  55. 55.
    oooh nasty

    I agree Kanye was wrong. If he had a problem with the voting he should have taken it up with MTV. But some of yall are so simple. Ye apologized, let it be done. Yall will accept whiteys apologies for (400 yrs of) slavery, years of discrimination/segregation & exploitation & many centuries of violence but will turn your back & vow never to buy this man’s music anymore for a mistake he made and apologized for.

    I mean the conversation will still go one this is a hot topic but…to say you’ll never listen or buy his music again is some BS.

    BTW, did yall see on Twitter how quickly he became a N*gga?

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  56. 56.
    Kris in Dallas

    Oh Kanye.. You make it so hard to support you.. Love your passion, but you need a filter… I’m sure he’ll bounce back.. His comment about bush was a bigger deal due to it being about Political issues.. It’ll all be old news soon. Still got love for you ya!
    Go Bey for bringing Taylor on stage.

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  57. 57.
    msblknasty1

    everyon got the award they deserved …… taylor has been outstanding for a 19 yr old ….. bey got what she deserves…. why was jay so late…. bey daddy was there where he been…. kanye aint sorry hes a nigga.. im not getting rid of that word …. look at this shit …. that poor lil white girl was stund….. bey had the nerve to smirk …. she had to save the day … or they would have booo her to ……

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  58. 58.
    thomas

    If kanye didn’t know Taylor is like the Beyonce to the white ppl he need to take that blackberry of his and check the credits ho because taylor is slaying in the charts yes beyonce video was good but Taylors fan base is crazy her first album is still slaying on the billboard charts as yall could tell beyonce was not worried about that damn award and I’m so happy she let Taylor finish her speech. Them Taylor Swift fans is about to let Kanye have it!!

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  59. 59.
    H-TOWN REPRESENTA

    I really like Kanye & lord knows I LOVE me some Beyonce but Kanye was direspectful for ruinin Taylor’s first vma moment. Beyonce was classy as hell for giving Taylor her moment back. Thats a tru southern dime. HTOWN baby follow me @DymeDiva84

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