Jay-Z defends Kanye West’s stage hijacking
Jay-Z doesn’t think his protege, Kanye West, deserved to be vilified for ambushing Taylor Swift at Sunday night’s MTV VMAs.
“Of course it was rude because it was her moment, but that’s the way he really felt,” Jay-Z, 39, tells BBC Radio 1. West, 32, interrupted Swift’s speech for her best female video award to opine that Jay-Z’s wife, Beyonce, should have won for “Single Ladies.”
Jay-Z goes on on, “I think it was rude, but the way they’re treating him … He’s on the cover of every paper. He didn’t kill anybody. No one got harmed.
Jay-Z admitted his pal’s actions were “inappropriate at the time,” but justifies the diss.
“He’s just a super-passionate person,” he said.
On Tuesday, Swift, 19, announced that she’d forgiven the rapper after he reached out to her.
“Kanye did call me, and he was very sincere in his apology, and I accepted that apology,” she told ABC News Radio.
Source, Bauer-Griffin
September 18th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I wondered if part of the reason Kanye did what he did, was to kiss up to Jay-Z.
September 20th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
ok ummmm…..where did u get that from? kanye west has dropped 4 albums in last few years and has out sold jay-z during those times. he has his own record and production company, he has sold out shows and executivley produced jay-z’s BP3 album. and not to mention they’ve been boys since what the dynasty album, so thats 9 years. the didnt just meet. and kanye has shown that he has the biggest Ego i’ve ever seen which means hes bows down to noone. why would he suck up to jay again?