Kanye West was honored in a big way during Sunday night's MTV Video
Music Awards by receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, an
accolade previously awarded to superstars like Beyoncé, Justin
Timberlake, Britney Spears, Madonna and The Beatles throughout the
show's more than 20-year tenure.
He accepted the prestigious award but not without a 13minute acceptance
speech that blew any previous Kanye moments way out of the water.
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Prior to Yeezy taking the stage, Taylor Swift talked about the infamous
2009 VMAs Best Female Video debacle that pinned the two hit makers
against each other for years to follow.
Taylor said any feud between the two was laid to rest long ago, admitting that Kanye's 2004 College Dropout was the first album she bought on iTunes.
"I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish but Kanye has had one
of the greatest careers of all time," Swift playfully joked as the
honoree prepared to deliver his speech.
As the crowd chanted his name, West looked visibly overwhelmed before
recanting his numerous regrets surrounding the career-polarizing move.
"If I had to do it all over again, what would I have done? Would I have
worn a leather shirt? Would I have drank half a bottle of Hennessy and
gave the rest of it to the audience...? If I had a daughter at that time
would I have gone on stage and grabbed the mic from someone else's?" he
asked.
West also acknowledged the backlash he has felt throughout his outspoken
career: "The contradiction is, I do fight for artists, but in that
fight I somehow was disrespectful to artists. I didn't know how to say
the right thing, the perfect thing," adding, "Sometimes I feel like
I died for the artists' opinion, for the artist to be able to have an
opinion after they were successful."
And to top it all off, looks like the US might be looking "West" for the
2020 presidential election. Yes, that's right. Kanye announced he's
running for president.
Kanye West announced he was running for president in 2020 during the MTV VMAs on Sunday.
The bold declaration came at the end of an epic acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award.
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