Kanye West Rains On Taylor Swift’s MTV Video Music Awards Parade

LiciMama
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:09 am: [report]

I dont think it was a setup. Kanye west has been known to be erratic and state his opinion at inopportune times.

Correct me if im wrong but wasn’t Kanye the one on that Ktrina fundraiser with Michael Myers where he spouted his opinion unscripted and unbeknownst to the producers? I just remember Michael Myers looking very, very confused.

maroon
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:11 am: [report]

I didn’t think it would be possible for Chris Brown to have any remote competition for the Douchenozzle of the Year award, but Kanye never ceases to amaze.  Why do we give this guy the opportunity to do things like this?  Oh right, because we continue to support his music and entertainment.  I know I certainly won’t after last night.

Keesh Mia
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:14 am: [report]

If it were a setup, Kanye would be kind of not smart to take the roll of the idiot man.  If it were not a setup, Kanye is truly a male nut.  He has been on the down the Greek tragedy the-down-fall-of-a-hero ramp for awhile now.  He is going down, down, down.

Too bad. I do like his music.

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:15 am: [report]

Either way, what a D-bag.

Do you like fish sticks Kanye?

Jamie Lee
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:18 am: [report]

Yes kanye said ‘george bush doesn’t care about black people’ during the fundraiser…this also isn’t his first awards show outburst, I believe he has pulled similiar stunts at the mtv europe awards and the grammy awards…

basically kanye west is a completely classless, self involved jerk. but, even though there is all this backlash against him right now, give it a couple weeks, people will be back to kissing his ass again just like they do with most other celebrities. ughhh…

Jamie Lee
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:19 am: [report]

kanye is also supposed to be LIVE on jay lenos new show tonight with jay z and rihanna…so will be interesting to see how that pans how…how lucky is jay leno that this happened right before his new show was set to debut…

spatula
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:19 am: [report]

What an ass. The Beyonce part totally made me cry.

xifeng882
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:22 am: [report]

MMM. Seriously, what the f@#*?!

LiciMama
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:24 am: [report]

I would never kiss his ass. I don’t care how much money he has. Its not worth it anything if you treat people badly. If anything, my mom voice would come out and tell him to go apologize to that girl and beg for her forgiveness like a man.

ccal
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:29 am: [report]

Beyonce showed amazing class, while Kayne was just being an ass.  No she didn’t win best female video, but she won video of the year, so Kanye can suck it because in my book Beyonce got the award that showed that her video was amazing.

Brooke
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:30 am: [report]

This was absolutely staged.  During these award shows, something controversial ALWAYS happens- be it an outburst by Kanye or a scandalous makeout with Britney.  Why else was Taylor Swift waiting backstage when Beyonce called her up? 

MTV is losing relevancy and needs to stage these outrageous stunts to keep viewers watching so that advertisers keep paying for commercials during the reruns.  It’s brilliant… it was the first thing I heard my coworkers talking about this morning.

tabby
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:34 am: [report]

Kanye is always a jerk, prompted by “stunts” or not. He has no concept of reality and how people are supposed to behave in public. So if it was a stunt, then Beyonce gets to be a class act and Taylor gets to be charming and good for them. If it wasn’t a stunt, then I hope Kanye gets a bunch of backlash for being a big jerk.

Since1981
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:35 am: [report]

I will be seriously surprised if this is staged as it completely fits his arrogant, condescending, a**hole history.

Riley
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:37 am: [report]

@Brooke - I agree.  I don’t watch the awards, but a large chunk of my friends have Kanye-related status updates on facebook.  My co-workers are out of the MTV viewership age-range.  A publicity stunt that will end up win-win on both sides, all it was.

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:46 am: [report]

@Riley: What is this “Book-of-Faces” you speak of?

River
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:55 am: [report]

Ooo, can I share my why-I-despise-Kanye-West story? 
Having worked at my university’s radio station, I had the opportunity to be a ‘bouncer’ at a show that Kanye did on his “College Dropout” tour at a small women’s college.  I didn’t know who he was at the time, but I figured I’d sign up for it.  Well, being the shortest gal in the group, I didn’t end up outside, but rather backstage as one of the gophers for Kanye and his entourage.  The man was the most contemptible maniac I have ever seen.  After he through bottles of water at me and another girl because they weren’t what he wanted, I told him where he could stick it because I wasn’t being paid to babysit a three year old with the case of the tantrums… and the other girl and I walked off.  We understood that he refuses to ever perform on our campus again.  The administrators of the yearly concerts would really prefer he never did, so it’s a win-win.
Seriously, he can fade into obscurity any day now.

Riley
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:56 am: [report]

@Cheese - I’m not sure, someone came over to my house and created a Facebook tab on Firefox.  The rest is a blur.  It is the only way I stay in touch with people I never really cared about.

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:58 am: [report]

@Riley: Ahh, so it’s another Classmates.com. Only 1 step away from charging to use it.

Humble Bee
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 08:55 am: [report]

oh I forgot to watch them. I never liked Kanye anyway, since he dissed my high school…

GreenAura
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:16 am: [report]

It wasn’t staged.  Taylor was waiting off stage when Beyonce got her award because the producers of the show asked her to wait there.  She had no clue what was going on.  The producers probably felt bad because she wasn’t able to finish her acceptance speech.  Notice how they quickly cut to Tracy Morgan and Eminems clip when Kanye grabbed the mike?  It was all jumbled.  Besides, Kanye may be an egomanical jerkoff, but he isn’t stupid.  Why would he risk a ton of backlash for the sake of a hoax?  And a stupid hoax at that, if it was.  No, he did it because he can’t control himself.  The look on Taylor’s face alone was enough to convince me it was real.  I’m done with Kanye.  He can disappear for all I care.

BlueVibe
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:18 am: [report]

1) He’s a self-absorbed twit.

2) She needs to EAT SOMETHING.

Riley
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:22 am: [report]

When are people going to get tired of the “Eat Something” remark?  It would be offensive to tell a portly woman to drop the shovel full of Twinkies, no?  Never got why is ok to be catty towards skinnier women, but if the reverse happened the world would implode.

effing hickster
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:22 am: [report]

Kanye’s mother must be *facepalming* in the afterlife right now.

xifeng882
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:29 am: [report]

@River: Are you a Moho?! I heard about what an ass he was being when he came to school. I didn’t go to the concert but uggggggggghhhhhhhh. Thanks for telling him off. Too bad he didn’t actually get the message.

PotteryGirl
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:30 am: [report]

It has to be said.  I think Kanye doesn’t like white people.

writergirl
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:39 am: [report]

@PotterGirl—I tend to agree with you. 

Not a stunt.  Kanye West is an ass.

River
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:41 am: [report]

@xifeng882 Ah, you found me out.

_jsw_
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:48 am: [report]

@River: As I suspect you are not the Mohorovičić discontinuity, the boundary between the Earth’s crust and the mantle, often known simply as the Moho, and since you are not a genus of birds in the family Meliphagidae, what, pray tell, are you?

As to the topic at hand: I think the man simply has impulse control issues that have been made worse by the fact that no one puts him in his place. I feel sorry for Taylor, but, in the end, I think this will be a good thing for her in terms of the goodwill that will come her way.

Jenn27549
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:48 am: [report]

@Riley: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

jimnist10
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:51 am: [report]

Did anyone read his “apology”.  He’s “sorry” but likes to keep it real. It didn’t seem like much of an apology. I mean, telling Taylor Swift you’re sorry and that she’s talented doesn’t really mean anything since he basically then says that he just like to keep it real and point out who’s really the best and that’s just the way he is, blah, blah, blah…He’s such an ass. Indeed, do you like fish sticks, Kanye?

I Go To 11
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 09:59 am: [report]

Kanye West is a grade A jackass. His behavior in general (the Katrina comment, “I don’t read books, but you need to read mine”, now this incident) is indicative that no matter how much money you have, it won’t buy you class…which he sorely, sorely lacks. Nice job making a teenager cry, Kanye. Bet that makes you feel like man, doesn’t it? @@

People should stop reinforcing his behavior by no longer buying his albums. Maybe when he’s facing foreclosure on his “crib” or repossession on his fancy cars, he’ll realize that, “You know, maybe I should start being nicer to people after all.”

Bitsy Ravenclaw
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 10:07 am: [report]

Given his supposed (I only say supposed because I don’t watch award shows) propensity to outburst and other awards shows tendency towards weird controversy, why isn’t there someone to stop fools like him from rushing the stage like that? I mean sure, if there was someone, then he could have stood up on his chair and shouted it, but still…

I’m glad that if it wasn’t a hoax that Taylor handled it with such grace and Beyoncè took the moment to be a classy human being and lead by example as to how to treat others.

CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 10:12 am: [report]

I hope they don’t invite him to the ‘real’ awards shows like the Oscars or Primetime Emmys.

bumbler
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 10:41 am: [report]

@Riley Bravo.

resullins
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 12:18 pm: [report]

@Maroon: Douchenozzle award still goes to Chris Brown, I think… but I’m sure Kanye would jump up on that preverbial stage and protest it.

@Pottery Girl: HAHAHA!!!!! You made me ASNR…

There’s no way this was staged. Most of the ‘stunts’ are amusing… not seriously hurtful! And this is just WAY too like Kanye. I put him in the same category as PETA… the more he opens his mouth trying to be ‘revolutionary,’ the more people hate him! He’ll dig his own grave soon enough!!!

Shriekback68
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 12:48 pm: [report]

Great comments, Riley. THUMBUP.

Casper
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:03 pm: [report]

I doubt it was a set up, he does something like this every so often when god forbid a black artist is trumped by a white artist, and even worse a white country singer. He does seem to have a chip on his shoulder for anything outside his ‘urban, pop culture history making’ genre. He can’t even admit when he’s wrong and properly apologize, Beyonce is an amazing artist but she’s had awards and praise and it’s been proven she’s good so why is it so wrong for a new artist to prove their worth, he wouldn’t have done that had Taylor been black, African American or a minority. I have nothing against African Americans and the minority’s i just have something against him. There are places for people like him and medications to fix it, he needs to check himself in sometime soon. I have no idea how Amber Rose puts up with his ‘you are mine, you have to be on par with my god like status, I AM GOD’ attitude. I’ve never wanted to smack someone so much in my life. The least he could do is shut the #&@$% up, use spell check, turn the caps lock off and apologize properly to the girl. He’d have thrown a hairy fit had someone done that to him after winning something. I think it’s fair to say Chris Brown is out of the doghouse spotlight for a while.

I Go To 11
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:13 pm: [report]

Forgot to mention, good for Beyonce to let Taylor finish her speech! I’m not really a fan of Taylor Swift’s music, but I felt bad for her being so rudely interrupted.

Kanye, how could you be so “Heartless”? Beyonce is a much “Stronger” person than you’ll ever be.

Mariabeth67
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 01:16 pm: [report]

I very highly doubt it was a set-up, he a very similar thing back in 2006 when he lost Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards.

cattgirl813
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 02:11 pm: [report]

I don’t think Kayne’s tantrum was staged, but I do think publicists and managers worked like crazy to coordinate Beyonce calling up Taylor at the end.  After all, she could’ve invited Taylor on stage sometime during or after her performance right?  And note that they both happened to have on beautiful - and beautifully coordinated - red dresses.  Classy move on Beyonce and MTV’s part to salvage the damage done to Taylor’s moment.  Staged, but classy.  As for Kanye, well the less said about him the better.  Let’s ignore him and maybe he’ll go away.

Squidtermz
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 03:47 pm: [report]

what a gay fish!

Isabela Laval
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 07:27 pm: [report]

Kanye’s always quick to take potshots at others, but wait til someone says something about his late mama.  I’m sure the drama queen will be quick to demand an apology!

magenta generation
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 08:32 pm: [report]

“When are people going to get tired of the “Eat Something” remark?  It would be offensive to tell a portly woman to drop the shovel full of Twinkies, no?  Never got why is ok to be catty towards skinnier women, but if the reverse happened the world would implode.”

@ Riley, you basically explained the conundrum I have of why people think Mo’nique is a great comedienne.

@Isabela Laval
I agree with what you said but I think part of the reason Kanye is acting out is that he hasn’t dealt with the death of his mother, the sole person that raised and supported him. I’m not excusing his behavior but he basically lost the only person that provided emotional support and could also check him, put him in his place and TELL KANYE’S ASS TO SIT THE #&@$% DOWN!

He is a lost little boy with fame, money, cars and women- they’re all just toys to him- he doesn’t have anything real anymore. The limelight is all he has left; he’s a talented artist IMO but his Achilles’s Heel will always be his insurmountable Ego and it’s soooooo obvious now that vanity and pride are his weaknesses.

As much as I felt for Taylor Swift because she’ll never get that moment back, I feel bad for Kanye because he’s so pathetic, overinflated and believes in his own hype. Kanye West is a great artist but in his mind he thinks he’s like MJ or the Beatles. You really can’t say anything to someone so lost in their delusional imagery. All you can do is watch them fall.

effing hickster
wrote on September 14 2009 @ 10:14 pm: [report]

Well, the two people sitting beside him could “TELL KANYE’S ASS TO SIT THE #&@$% DOWN”, couldn’t they?

Latest news: Obama made an off-the-record remark to an ABC reporter, calling Kanye a “jackass”. She got reprimanded for twittering it. Classic.

mrfunny107
wrote on September 17 2009 @ 01:44 pm: [report]

test

mrfunny107
wrote on September 17 2009 @ 01:47 pm: [report]

Contrary to popular belief, Kanye was actually advertising Zune during the VMA awards. The real quote was,

“I’m gonna let you finish, but the Zune HD has some of the best video of all time!”

Unfortunately, Apple, amassing billions of dollars in revenue, had already instigated covert ops behind the scenes of all major television viewing stations. Coupled with Apple’s highly advanced data transfer network (which allows them to anonymously view the computer going-ons of 98% of all computer owners in the world) they were already aware of Kanye’s predisposition to Microsoft products. Combined with Kanye’s extremely outspoken personality, there was enough threat generated that they were already prepared to take defensive measures before the awards had even begun.

As one of the world’s authorities of sound emitting devices, they simply hacked into Kanye’s microphone via the VMA sound system, and overdubbed his mentioning Zune with, instead, a reference to Beyonce (the #1 music video seller in the iTunes store). Notice Kanye’s pause and resulting confused expression as he realizes that somehow the audience thinks he is promoting Beyonce’s new video. Afterwards, Apple caught up with Mr. West and offered him a 5% cut of future iPhone sales if he went along with it. Apple, you have reached an all time low. A dirty trick indeed!

blady
wrote on September 23 2009 @ 04:43 am: [report]

Sadness is all a feel for this Guy…. people like him should realize it is a big Wide world with lots of people who have lots of talent in many area’s.

Talent is not just for a chosen few (as he himself would like to place himself and others who he pertains above all in his closed untouchable Club)... Taylor Swift Rightly deserved her award and Handle the situation with grace. Unlike the Ungentlemanly ugly spectacle (put that into a Rap!) thrust upon us….

Saying that I personally think lessons have been learn’t by Kanye West, life is so short at the end of the day and life is all about lessons…

Their is a time for all, New Talent Emerges it is only the lucky ones who get the breaks .
Again well done Taylor…. Also another Brilliant Young Talent going down a storm in London England is Called ‘HARMONYDEKYA’ CHeck webpage:harmonydekya.com
and New single called MeanmotherF-cker….Kanya look her up and remember others have Talent outside your Club.
see:http://www.nikhilsingh.com/Nikhil_Singh/VENUSVILLE/VENUSVILLE.html

BY:Blady

blady
wrote on September 23 2009 @ 05:27 am: [report]

: COPYWRITE on My poem: (Very Apt at the moment)

    Maybe Kanye West would Contact me, to place this verse in his next Rap!

       
            You silly old man your just a clown

                  with a mask to hide your face in

                      you act so cool but your just a fool

                            blind to what’s around you

                            You silly old man your just a clown

                                caught up in all illusions

                                    you’ll always lose

                                      cause your confused

                                      blind to what’s around you…..... (and so on and so on)

  if l told you about me and my life “You Would Give Me An Award’ even stand and applaud.

          First Audition out of Drama School was taken on one year Contract, On first day was called out of Green Room to see Director Who Said ’ We could not get over what you were telling us about your life. Could we please Write a play based around your life!!!?
  so my first Acting Job was a ‘PLAY ABOUT ME’....

   
     
 
By: blady

LostInStars
wrote on November 14 2009 @ 03:30 pm: [report]

@Riley: Thanks. I’m pretty skinny and I try really hard to refrain from making remarks about women who weigh more than me, but they see no problem in commenting about how I “need some meat on my bones” or telling me, “if a strong wind came by, you’d just blow away” or the classic, I just need to “eat something.” Such a rude double standard.

blady
wrote on November 14 2009 @ 03:56 pm: [report]

Well Mr West not taking me up on poem then!!!!!

Check this out :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLnc-MQ56o