What’s up guys, it’s Emile ENnis Jr. with
Clevver News, and it’s never too late to
get even more answers to some of life’s
biggest mysteries, so prepare yourselves as
Kanye West reveals the REAL reason he interrupted
Taylor Swift during her 2009 VMA acceptance
speech.
The 2020 VMAs have come and gone in a shockingly
calm manner this year compared to every other
year, but if you thought we’d go one year
without a wild headline surrounding the VMAs,
Kanye West just dropped in and was all, “Hold
My Hennessey.”
It’s been 11 years since Kanye interrupted
Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for the
coveted Video of the Year award to claim that
Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” music video
was the ‘best music video of all time,’
and to this day, people don’t forget.
During a recent appearance on Nick Cannon’s
podcast Cannon’s Class!, Kanye opened up
about the incident, and this may not come
as a surprise to many, but he revealed that
the sole perpetrator behind his antics that
night were none other than the big man upstairs.
“I’m God”
He said QUOTE, “Right now, God is giving
me the information.
If God ain’t want me to run on stage and
say Beyoncé had the best video, he wouldn’t
have sat me in the front row.
I would’ve been sitting in the back.”
Kanye also revealed that before that moment
when he popped up onstage, he had never even
heard of Taylor Swift before.
He added, “It wouldn’t have made it so
ridiculous of an idea because I had never
heard of this person before, and ‘Single
Ladies’ is, like, one of the greatest videos
of all time.
And I was only drinking Hennessy because I
didn’t want to go to the awards show because
it was a set-up.”
As Jamie Foxx would say, Kanye truly did blame
it on the Henny…
Although this is the first time Kanye has
opened up about his motives, it was only a
year after the VMAs in 2010 when he appeared
on Ellen and revealed that the backlash he
received caused him to leave the country for
about a year.
He said QUOTE, “I literally left America,
I stopped doing music altogether, I went to
Japan, just so I could get away from paparazzi
altogether.
And then in November, I moved to Rome and
just, like, lived there.”
Kanye then revealed that when he came back
to the states, he was living in Hawaii for
six months working on music.
But once again, he DID bring up the elephant
in the room AKA the whole alcohol thing…
Just for your whole world to completely crash
off of a moment of sincerity or alcohol, or
whatever it is… to lose…”
“Those don’t usually go together, but,
yeah
He and Ellen had a good laugh at that point,
but it appears Kanye felt as a “soldier
of culture,” it was his duty to speak out
on “things that really meant stuff to culture
that constantly get denied for years and years.”
So maybe his intentions were there, buuut
good or bad, the 2009 VMAs will forever go
down in history as one of the most pivotal
moments in pop culture.
May we never, but continuously try, to forget.
For more on Taylor, don’t forget to click
right over here to watch another Clevver video.
Then be sure to let me know all your thoughts
on Kanye’s explanation as to why he interrupted
Taylor down here in the comments, and if you
think their friendship can ever be restored.
I’m your host Emile Ennis Jr., bye guys!
