New Audio Tape Allegedly Captures Kanye West's Taylor Swift VMA Rant
Friday, 19 July 2013
Written by Elliott Batte
Four years on from the memorable Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), audio allegedly capturing the rapper's reaction has leaked online.
West famously grabbed the microphone off Swift after she won an award in 2009, and claimed that Beyonce should have won instead. Swift even joked about it earlier this week after landing a couple of nominations for this year's awards:
Two VMA nominations!! If you vote and get us one, I promise to keep a firmer grip on the mic this time ;) http://t.co/nK9rhV95RP
Gawker have now posted audio that they claim captures the aftermath. A voice on the tape is heard to say (via NME):
“I'm pushing the envelope! I wrote my fuckin' Run This Town verse for a fuckin' month! When I heard Eminem's verse on the Drake shit, I went back and rewrote my shit for two days. I cancelled appointments to rewrite! I fuckin' care! You know what I'm saying? And that's what I'm saying. Because I did that, Taylor Swift cannot win over Beyoncé! Because I wrote my verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé. As long as I'm alive! And if I'm alive, kill me then!”
The tape continues:
“As long as I'm alive, you gon' have to deal with it. Cause there ain't gonna be no more motherfucking Elvises with no James Browns. What the fuck was Pink performing? Don't nobody know that song. Pink performed twice! Two songs? How the fuck Pink perform two songs and I didn't even get asked to perform 'Heartless'? 'Heartless' is the biggest song of the year! It had the most spins of the first quarter! I don't know that Pink song!”
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