Kanye West Explains His Hiatus And The Taylor Swift Incident

    Much has been made of Kanye West’s time after the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when he interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech. West didn’t do any interviews for months, but when news of RZA, DJ Premier, Pete Rock and others appearing on his album leaked, his name never left the headlines. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Kanye reflected on the incident and the subsequent hiatus he took to deal with some personal issues.

    West called his interruption of Swift “very punk rock and revolutionary and idealistic and very angry in a way.” The incident angered both fans and fellow musicians, with racial epithets directed at West becoming a trending topic on Twitter. But Kanye revealed the experience taught him to be more humble and empathetic. Immediately after the 2009 Video Music Awards, West told Jay Leno he would take some time out to reflect on the loss of his mother and how it impacted him.

    “People obviously know I lost my mother, and it was shocking,” West explained. “On one hand, I never really dealt with the loss, but in not dealing with the loss, I also didn’t completely deal with the responsibilities that my mother used to take. She was such an amazing, well-rounded person, and I was a spoiled brat.”

    Kanye West also discusses why he recruited Q-Tip and RZA to help with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, what Jay-Z means to him and why he had diamonds drilled into his bottom teeth during the full interview with Vanity Fair.

    29 thoughts on “Kanye West Explains His Hiatus And The Taylor Swift Incident

    1. i will never buy another kanye album what he did was be a strait up hater and i do think hes a racist and im black

      1. Get over it! You simple ass, self-loathing, wack ass bitch. If she forgave him, what’s your issue. You sound like the hater to me.

    2. His Interuption of Taylor swift was “Very Punk Rock and Revolutionary”

      SMH, what world does this nigga live in where steal a lil girls mic is fighting the power??

      Fuck outta here, Kanye is way more Carlton Banks then Chuck D. Maybe he can take his next stand by throwing Betty white down a staircase and call it fighting oppression

      SMH, I love his music but If knew somebody like this in real life, they’d of been stomped long ago

    3. At this point he’d do well to shut up about the situation because every time he opens his mouth he looks like more of an asshole

      lol, If I were taylor swift I’d release my album the same day as his just to see him cry……. Most people are over the situation but when he makes statements like that it just makes it worse, “Punk Rock and Revolutionary”??……Naw, call it what it really was, a drunken nigga moment

    4. fuck taylor swift, kANYE A BEAST YA HEARD?

      @c red, stfu rofl….

      if you a true hiphop fan you would have agreed with kanye on B to win. granted she ain’t hiphop, but r&b been a little sister to hiphop ya feel me?

      its not bout music no more?…you suddenly dislikes someones music because of their issues outside the studio?..man lik my nut sacs.

      1. she was very famous before that. Kanye made taylor famous to black people. Chick was a multi platinum artist on plenty magazine covers before the Kanye Incident, and she poked fun at it once right after it happened and moved on, but people still hater her. y?

    5. WE ARE STILL FUCKING TALKING ABOUT THIS???? JESUS CHRIST SHUT THE FUUUUUCK UP THIS SHIT HAPPENED OVER A YEAR AGO AND WASN’T THAT BIG OF A DEAL TO BEGIN WITH. SMFH.

    6. I bet eminem thought that shit was funny as hell when he grabbed the mic. When I first heard about it, all I could see was em laughing

    7. just gives us the album and get out of my life. Dying to hear the production, specially the madlib produced one. Heard lord lord lord. wonder what else he has cooked up for him

    8. Jesus, fuck this shit. Kanye makes good music, let taylor swift do her thing to. Nobody cares about this anymore, it’s time for you dumbass media ppl to stop milking it.

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