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Kanye West apologizes to Taylor Swift, writes song for her
by Yashika kapoor - September 5, 2010 - comments
Kanye West snatches the mike from Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech at the 2009 VMA event.
American rapper Kanye West put his Twitter account to good use on Saturday by offering his apologies to singer Taylor Swift, whom he offended last year.
West had reportedly interrupted Swift’s award acceptance speech by snatching the mike from her at the 2009 Video Music Award (VMA) ceremony.
He tweeted, “I'm sorry, Taylor. We're both artists and the media and managers are trying to get between us. She deserves the apology more than anyone. Thank you Biz Stone and Evan Williams for creating a platform where we can communicate directly.”
"If you Google a--hole my face may very well pop up 2 pages into the search. ... There are people who don't dislike me ... they absolutely hate me. People tweeted that they wish I was dead ... No listen. They wanted me to die, people. I carry that,” his next Twitter post read.
During a 2005 NBC television broadcast for Hurricane Katrina, Kanye West had said that George Bush did not care about black people and this had instigated the media against him, he claimed.
He wrote, "Even though the NBC telethon was widely praised y'all didn't think they was just gone let me get away with that did y'all???!!!The media has successfully diminished the 'receptive' audience of... KANYE WEST. ...taking a 15 second blip the media have successfully painted the image of the 'ANGRY BLACK MAN.'”
A song for Taylor
After clarifying about his VMA deed, Kanye West revealed that he had written a song for Taylor Swift and if she did not accept the song, he would perform it for her.
He next wrote that Taylor had nothing to do with his ideology on award shows.
"She had no idea what hit her. She's justa lil girl with dreams like the rest of us. Beyoncé didn't need that. MTV didn't need that and Taylor and her family friends and fans definitely didn't want or need that,” he tweeted.
In more than a dozen tweets, West explained everything that had went wrong and how he has recollected himself and set aside his ego, to accept his mistake.
“I'm ready to get out of my own way. The ego is overdone. I take the responsibility for my actions. Yes I was that guy. A 32-year-old child. With new found humility ... who am I to run on stage? I would never ever again in a million years do that. Sorry to let you down,” his last post read.
West releases his latest song
Kanye West released his second song in the ‘G.O.O.D. Friday’ series called ‘Devil in a New Dress’ on his KanyeUniversecity blog on Saturday morning, just before getting busy with the Twitter posts referring to Taylor Swift.
"There's only 18 days of summer left. I had to drop DEVIL IN A NEW DRESS, while it was still hot out so people could [roll] down [their] windows,” West tweeted after the release of the song.