LibGuides: Taylor Swift: Conflict with Kayne West

Kayne interrupts Taylor Swift during acceptance speech at VMAs 2009

This is a youtube video explaining the history between Kayne and Taylor Swift including the video of when Kayne West got on stage and interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video for the song "You Belong with Me" at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Kayne said, "Taylor, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!" It also includes the recorded phone call about Kayne's song "Famous" including a line about Swift.

BBC Article on Kayne and Taylor Conflict
This article provides a timeline of the now infamous Kayne West and Taylor Swift conflict that began when Kayne interrupted her acceptance speech at the 2009 VMAs. It then covers when Kayne apologized and they became friends. It also covers the recorded phone call from 2016 that Kayne discussed his song "Famous" featuring a lyric about Swift. The backlash from this phone call caused Taylor Swift to remove herself from the public eye for about a year in 2016 because she believed the majority of people hated her. In 2020, the unedited version of the video of the phone call was released.