Unsurprisingly, Kanye almost pulled a Kanye on the Grammys last night, getting up on stage as Beck accepted his award for Album of the Year from Prince, then turning around. Many were unsure if this was some sort of a joke parodying his infamous interruption of Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV VMAs, when she took home a moonman over Beyonce.
Watch below as Beck humbly accepts his award from Prince, then gets near-Kanyed.
Jay Z’s reaction is pretty great:
Wifey Kim Kardashian had something to say about it as well:
Kanye later elaborated on his motives for the move in an interview with E! News:
“If they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. Flawless Beyoncé video, and Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé. And at this point, we tired of it! Because what happens is, when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music. It’s disrespectful to inspiration. And we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work everyday, and listen to Beyoncé and they feel like it takes them to another place. Then they do this whole promotional event, and they’ll run the music over somebody’s speech, an artist, because they want a commercial advertising. No, we not playing with them no more. And by the way, I got my wife, I got my daughter, and my clothing line, so I’m not gonna do nothing to put my daughter at risk. But I am here to fight for creativity, that’s the reason I didn’t say anything tonight.”
And Beck’s response was perfect:
“I was just so excited he was coming up. He deserves to be on stage as much as anybody. How many great records has he put out in the last five years, right?” Asked about West’s comments that Beyoncé should have won, Beck replied, “Absolutely,” adding, “I thought she was going to win. Come on, she’s Beyoncé!”
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