Kanye West Reveals The Real Reason Why He Interrupted Taylor Swift’s 2009 VMAs Speech

hollywoodlife.com:

It has been 11 years since Kanye West jumped onstage and demanded that Taylor Swift‘s Best Female Video award at the MTV VMAs go to Beyoncé instead.

He now claims that God was the one who had him seated in the front row, which gave him immediate access to act upon his impulse to interrupt Taylor’s big moment on live TV.

He also claims that he’d never heard of Taylor, and that it was outrageous how she could have beat Bey and her “Single Ladies” video. “Right now, God is giving me the information,” Kanye, 43, told Nick Cannon on the Sept.

1 Cannon’s Class podcast. “If God ain’t want me to run on stage and say Beyoncé had the best video, he wouldn’t have sat me in the front row.