Kanye West suggests God wanted him interrupt Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs
Kanye West has suggested God made him interrupt Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 VMAs.
In an extended interview with Nick Cannon on his Cannon’s Class podcast, West addressed the now-infamous moment in which he stormed the stage when Swift was awarded Best Female Video for You Belong With Me.
"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,” West said.
“I would've been sitting in the back. He wouldn't have made it the first award. And (He) wouldn't have made it so ridiculous of an idea 'cause I had never heard of this person before that night.”
He continued: “And 'Single Ladies' is like one of the greatest videos of all time.... And I was only drinking Hennessy because I didn't want to go to the awards show 'cause it was a set-up!"
In the 44-minute interview, West also revealed he found the Bible after he was hospitalised during his 2016 Saint Pablo tour.
"The first time I was put into the hospital in 2016, I actually started reading the Bible,” he said.
“That was part of what God hit me with. And you know, God... has a calling on all of us, and He uses us in different ways. I'm not going to lie to you, I like being cool. I didn't go into an environment to come off uncool.”
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He continued: “When I went to the hospital the first time, one of the things I wrote down was: 'start a church in Calabasas.' And we sang Jesus' name to the hills in the center of the city of Los Angeles."
The wide-ranging discussion also included references to abortion, with West doubling down on his pro-life stance that he expressed at his South Carolina rally.
"For anyone who wants to tear me down for crying, you realize that because of South Carolina, there are people who have decided to have a child? Because they connected,” he said.
“And if they were on the fence about it, they never saw anyone in my position take that position and say, 'Look at this. This is a 7-year-old right here. And she might have never made it here.’"
