Yes, we're still on this, apparently. Kanye spoke, unprompted, about the 2009 incident in a radio interview with Steve Harvey.
Nearly a full seven years after it happened, Kanye West seems unable to let bygones be bygones over his now legendary interruption of Taylor Swift’s speech at the MTV VMAs in 2009.
In a new interview, he raised the topic out of the blue to blame “closet racism” for his actions. In a radio conversation with host Steve Harvey on Tuesday (May 3rd), the 38 year old rapper brought it up, yet again, without being prompted.
“It’s not about Kanye West. It’s not about Taylor Swift,” West said. “There’s a lot of people in America that feel like they don’t have the platform to stand up and express their closet racism. Before they had that platform, one really easy way to express it was to say, ‘Eff Kanye West.’”
Kanye West with Kim Kardashian at the 2016 Met Gala
He also went on to blame Britney Spears’ 2007 troubles for what happened at the Video Music Awards, at which Swift won out in the Best Video category ahead of Beyonce, whom Kanye got up and told everyone should have won.
“As soon as Britney shaved her head and they saw that money going down, they had already marked what that award was going to be that night.”
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“They ain’t expect no activist that had just lost his mama a year later, sitting there with a bottle of Hennessey,” he added by way of explaining his actions. “The only reason I drank the Hennessey in the first place is because I said, ‘I’mma just have to get drunk to deal with all the lies I’m about to see’.”
Well, at least one of the parties is sick to the back teeth of talking about the incident, with Swift saying recently in an interview with Vogue that “I think the world is bored with the saga. I don't want to add anything to it, because then there's just more.”
Meanwhile, Kanye sounded a bit more remorseful when the subject of his recent spat with fellow rapper Wiz Khalifa came up, and the aspersions he cast about his child whom he shares with Amber Rose, who is Kanye’s ex.
“I really want to stress the amount of respect that I have for parents,” Kanye said. “There is no concept of anyone beating up on someone else’s child or that type of concept. So every day I feel more deeply, deeply, deeply apologetic about that concept, because I only want to put out positive, positive, positive concepts.”
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