Times Kanye West Was Over The Top

Taylor Swift was over the moon at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, accepting the award for Best Female Video for "You Belong With Me," when Kanye West walked on stage and cut her short. The result? A popular catchphrase, "I'mma let you finish," which was re-enacted by West's former partner, Jay-Z, at the 2012 BET Awards, per MTV. "Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time," West proclaimed, in reference to the "Halo" singer's track "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)," via Entertainment Weekly. 

Just like the audience and the crew backstage, however, Beyoncé Knowles was taken aback. According to Van Toffler, the former president of Viacom Media Networks, the moment took a toll on Knowles, who let the tears flow when she was backstage in the company of her father and then-manager, Matthew Knowles. "I didn't know this was going to happen, I feel so bad for [Swift]," she said (via Billboard).

West revealed in an interview with Nick Cannon that his act was a result of instructions from God. "If God didn't want me to run on stage and say, 'Beyoncé had the best video,' he wouldn't have sat me in the front row," he clarified. His explanation is, however, tainted by the fact that, prior to the show, he had been downing a bottle of Hennessy.

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