Jay-Z interrupts Kanye's acceptance speech... three years after
West ruined Taylor Swift's big moment
By
Jade Watkins
PUBLISHED: 17:35, 2 July 2012
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UPDATED: 22:56, 2 July
2012
He shocked and angered many in 2009 when he
ruined Taylor Swift's big moment at the MTV Video Music Awards.
And Kanye West got a taste of his own medicine
at the BET Awards last night.
The 35-year-old rapper took to the stage with
Jay-Z to accept the Best Video Of The Year award for the pair's track
Otis.
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Taste of his own medicine: Jay-Z interrupted Kanye West's
speech last night at the BET Awards as the pair took to the stage to accept the
Best Video Of The Year award for their track Otis
As he began his speech with, 'I want to thank
BET...' Jay promptly butted in, saying 'Excuse me Kanye I am going to let you
continue...'
What the cheeky rapper and husband of Beyonce
was referring to was the moment West leaped from his seat and ran on stage
during Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Music Awards.
He took to the microphone while the Country
Music star was addressing the crowd and said the gong should have gone to his
friend and Jay's wife Beyonce, for Single Ladies.
I'll take it: Kanye graciously accepted the joke after
being embarrassed by his friend
Jay-Z's gag last night elicited roars of
laughter from the crowd who all immediately got the joke.
A slightly embarrassed Kanye laughed it off,
telling his friend: 'I am trying to defend your girl man!' referring to Beyonce,
who was also in fits of giggles in her seat.
Kanye's reputation was left tarnished in 2009
when the rapper stormed on stage to unleash an astonishing rant during an
acceptance speech by the country starlet.
Laugh out loud: Jay-Z's gag last night elicited roars of
laughter from the crowd
The young singer, who was collecting Best
Female Video for You Belong To Me, was left humiliated as West snatched the
microphone from her hands.
He turned to the audience and shouted that the
gong should have gone to Beyonce.
The hip hop star, who had been swigging
Hennessy cognac on the red carpet earlier in the night, was booed roundly by the
celebrity-packed audience of thousands.
Big night: Jay and Kanye also took home the award for Best
Group
And it was only the first category of the
night.
Swift had breathlessly began her speech with
the words, 'I always wondered what it would be like to maybe win one of these
some day, but never actually thought it would happen'.
But before she could continue any further,
West leaped from his seat in the audience, ran onto the stage and rushed to grab
the microphone as a bemused Swfit struggled to take in what was
happening.
West told the stunned star: 'Yo Taylor. I'm
really happy for you, I'm going to let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the
best videos of all time.'
Shocking: Kanye's reputation was left tarnished in 2009
when the rapper stormed on stage to unleash an astonishing rant during an
acceptance speech by Taylor Swift
Cameras cut to Beyonce in the crowd who looked
shocked and mortified.
As West shrugged his shoulders and handed back
the microphone, a shell-shocked Swift stood in the centre of the stage seemingly
unable to continue.
However, she was given another chance to say
her piece when Beyonce did win an award for Single Ladies, in the Best
Choreography category.
First she told the audience about her first
VMA win as a 17-year-old with Destiny's Child and how much it meant to her and
then she sportingly brought the teen singer back on stage to huge
applause.
Not happy: Claiming he was defending his friend Beyonce,
cameras cut to the singer in the crowd who looked shocked and
mortified
The pair, both dressed in bright red, embraced
before Beyonce passed the microphone to Swift.
West was later ejected from the awards show at
Radio City Music Hall in New York.
He apologised for his outburst on his blog
later.
He wrote: 'I'm sooooo sorry to Taylor Swift
and her fans and her mom.'
He added: '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 apologise to Taylor.'
Moving on: Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye and his new girlfriend
Kim Kardashian all sat together at last night's show
It is not the first time he has made his
feelings known at award ceremonies.
At the 2007 MTV VMAs, he was caught on camera
ranting backstage because he had not won for the second year in a row and in
2004, he stormed out of the American Music Awards for losing the best new artist
category.
Proud: Kanye hardly left Kim's side all
night
And at the MTV Europe awards in 2006, Kanye
jumped onstage after losing out on the Best Video award for Touch The Sky to
Simian.
Grabbing a microphone during their speech, he
claimed his video should have won because it 'cost a million dollars, and Pamela
Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons.'
He later admitted to having a 'sippy sippy'
before the performance.
For her part, Swift called the evening back in
2009 'interesting.'
'I was standing on stage and I was really
excited because I'd just won the award and then I was really excited because
Kanye West was on stage,' Swift recalled after the show. 'And then I wasn't
excited anymore after that.'
She later said she had been getting many
messages of support and that she felt indebted to Beyonce for giving up her
moment to allow her to speak.
'It was just so wonderful and so incredibly
classy of her and just gracious and wonderful to let me say
something.
'She's just been my hero and one of my idols
ever since I was little. Before the talented artist, the superstar, she's always
been a great person and I just, I thought I couldn't love Beyonce more tonight,
than tonight.'
Swift said she didn't have any ill-will toward
the rapper of whom she said she was once a fan.
'I don't know him, and I've never met him,
so...' she said. 'I don't want to start anything because I had a great night
tonight.'
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