Kanye
West announced that he is running for president in 2020 during his
acceptance speech for the MTV Music Video Award’s lifetime achievement
honor.
“And
yes, as you probably could’ve guessed in this moment, I’ve decided in
2020 to run for president,” West said, before walking off stage.
He
made the announcement at the end of a 10-minute-long speech where he
discussed visiting the grocery store with his daughter and admitted that
he does not understand awards shows.
In 2009, West famously stormed the stage at the awards to protest Taylor Swift’s win for best female video.
On Sunday night, Swift presented the Video Vanguard Award to West on
stage and stood next to his wife Kim Kardashian during the speech.
After
accepting the award on stage, West stood silently for several minutes
under a spotlight while the crowd cheered for him. “Bro, bro, listen to
the kids,” West began.
West
later started off with a rehash on the controversy in 2009, when he
took Swift’s award. He said that it is something he thinks about in the
grocery store with his daughter and when a crowd of 60,000 people boo
him at a baseball game.
“I
think if I had to do it all again, what would I have done?” Kanye said.
“Would I have worn a leather shirt? Would I have drank a half a bottle
of Hennessy and given the rest to the crowd?”
He
then asked if he would do it if he had had a daughter at the time, as
he does now, would he have taken the award from Swift. At no point in
the speech did he give a clear answer to those four questions.
Six
years later, West said it does not make sense to him why “five artists”
are given the opportunity to attend awards ceremonies where they can
lose. “I still don’t understand awards shows,” West said.
West also acknowledged that his comments might make the audience wonder about whether he was intoxicated.
“‘Did
you smoke something before coming out here?’” West said. “The answer is
yes, I rolled up a little something to knock the edge off.”
Shortly after, he announced his run for president.
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