Kanye West's Taylor Swift Rant: Rapper Bashed Swift and Pink After Snatching Mic in 2009 (AUDIO)
A new recording has emerged featuring rapper Kanye West berating fellow performers Pink and Taylor Swift.
The tape is said to have been recorded the same night of the infamous 2009 MTV Music Awards in which Kanye West stormed the stage, took the microphone from Taylor Swift and began explaining why she did not deserve to win Best Female Video over Beyonce.
"Because I did that, Taylor Swift cannot win over Beyoncé! Because I wrote my verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé," West allegedly stated on the tape, which was first obtained by Gawker.
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"As long as I'm alive! And if I'm alive, kill me then! Kill me then! As long as I'm alive, you gon' have to deal with it. 'Cause there ain't gonna be no more m----------- Elvises with no James Browns."
In 2009 Swift won an MTV award for "Best Female Video." Beyonce had also been nominated in the category. While Swift was in the middle of making her acceptance speech, West stormed on stage, snatched the mic, and told the crowd that Swift didn't deserve the award.
"Yo Taylor. I'm really happy for you, I'm going to let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time," he said at the time while pointing at Beyonce in the audience.
That was not the only time West implied that the country singer was undeserving of winning an award. During a performance in London earlier this year West went on a rant about the music business, big corporations, and the government while performing at London's Hammersmith Apollo.
In part of the rant, West questioned why Taylor Swift beat Beyonce for a Grammy award.
Swift was nominated and won a Grammy for "Best Song Written for Visual Media." Beyonce was not nominated in that category, although she was on the nominee list for "Best Traditional R&B Performance," which she won.
But West still suggested that Swift had taken an award that Beyonce was more deserving of.
To hear a recording of the tape, click here (WARNING: Adult language).
