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Celebs Rip Kanye West as Taylor Swift Responds to VMA Incident

Entertainment news and gossip readers have been unable to escape coverage of the Kanye West-Taylor Swift incident at the MTV Video Music Awards, and the celebrity Twitter/bloging sphere has been a particularly concentrated area of Kanye West discussion.

Katy Perry, who Taylor Swift praised in a Twitter update prior to Sunday’s show, jumped quickly to the country star’s defense, writing “F*ck U Kanye. It’s like u stepped on a kitten” shortly after the incident Sunday. Other celebrities weighing in included Kelly Clarkson (“I’ve seen you do some pretty sh*tty things, but you just keep amazing me with your tactless, asshole ways. It’s absolutely fascinating how much I don’t like you.”), Pink (“Kanye West is the biggest piece of sh*t on earth. Quote me…My heart goes out to taylor swift. She is a sweet and talented girl and deserved her moment. She should know we all love her.”) and Adam Lambert (“Kanye needs to chill. He freaks out every year. It ain’t that deep man.”).

Swift, meanwhile, was less vitriolic in her response. “I was really excited, because I had just won the award. And then I was really excited because Kanye West was onstage,” she said, according to a Rolling Stone story. “And then I wasn’t so excited anymore after that.”

The “You Belong With Me” singer did, however, praise Beyonce as “wonderful and gracious.” West interrupted Swift’s speech to criticize voters for not awarding Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” with the Best Female Video prize, but when it came time for the latter Diva to accept the Best Video prize, she cut off her own speech to give Swift a chance to address the crowd.

2009 Video Music Awards

Written by Brian Cantor

Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. He has been a leading reporter in the music, movie, television and sporting spaces since 2002.

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  1. kanye west know he was wrong for that stuff!! he didn’t have to hurt taylor’s feelings like that….. he should have just kept that lil ass comment to his self!! he just wanted attention because he know he has an image to uphold!!! (suppposely being so irrogant)

  2. Is Kanye really that important to the music industry to keep around? I think not; pay him his due and send him on his way. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

  3. Good thing his mother kicked the bucket and didn’t have to watch her son being a stupid worthless asshole.
    PUNK!!!!

  4. I will never again support anything that has to do with Kanye West ever again. What the hell is his problem??

  5. I am sad to live in Los Angeles and have to share the air with such an asshole. With any luck, the repercussions cost should cost him everything. I hope he and Chris Brown find somewhere to go and get the hell out of the public view. They are poor role models and never should have a platform to influence youth again.

    Do not support anything he does or produces…

  6. OMG Who in the hell does he think he is. Taylor won and that should have been it.What if someone would have done that 2 him? Beonce was a class act. The look on her face when Kanye west was talking. She was totally surprised and shocked at what he said. Shame on you Kanye West–Shame on you!!!

  7. What a worthless piece of shit! His mom, my she RIP, is probably turning in her grave! I have never been a big fan of his, but I will never listen to any of his music again… he is not a good representation of us Chicagoians!! Asshole, scumbag! Taylor deserved her award… Byonce is sooo Classy!!!

  8. I, too, think Kanye West is a piece of shit. I do, however, like some of his music. My proposal: However large your group of friends might be, agree that one person, and one person only, buys his next CD. Rip it, and burn a copy for everyone who might want it. Reward Kanye Fartknocker’s efforts in the studio with royalties from just ONE CD, instead of several. If enough people did it, it might hurt the douchebag a little…

  9. What a worthless, uneducated, unrespectful, piece of fukking shit.

    If I had any authority, I would strip him of everything he owns. He has absolutely no class what so ever. I hope something bad happens to him. We dont need people like hom on this world.

  10. You know something that boy needs to be taken to the woodshed cuz he needs a whoopin! Taylor is the pride of our country right now and she didn’t deserve to have some damn coon ruin her moment!

  11. Why no black “artists” criticizing Kanye West? Black people will almost never take a white person’s side over another black’s. They’d rather keep their mouths shut than say anything critical. Meanwhile, these silly people with their silly music…Madonna seems to think Michael Jackson was some kind of victim.

  12. Fuck all you Taylor Swift lovin bitches! Kayne had something he feelt he needed to say and he took that stage and did what he had to! If any of you had something to say, you wouldn’t have the balls to do what he did! Kayne West is one of the best rappers of all time and taylor swift is just another country girl that sings songs about love. The difference between Taylor and Kayne, In 50 years no one will remember TAYLOR SWIFT!!!! Fuck YOU BITCHES!

  13. Jeez at the vulgarity. Thought we left the racism in the 60’s…I dont think anyone condones what West said or did, and im assuming jay-z is rather irritated too considering he produced much of Jay-z new album. However, there are some pretty stupid white/latino/asian celebs out there too…

  14. Dumb swift loving cunts!,, “” Kayne had something he feelt he needed to say”
    Really?? Did your nigger lover Kanye Crap, tell you this himself? Are you the niggers head shrinker?

    Dont worry, punk, no one will remember YOU in 5 minutes. You worthless nigger.
    Ghetto fool.

  15. Kayne= crapulous + racist

    Kayne, I say
    1. Racism is stupid
    2. Get on Celebrity Rehab for your alcoholism.

    Do it for Taylor- and do it Swift-
    Get help and Get over it.

    crapulous KRAP-yuh-lus, adjective:

    1. Given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking.

  16. There’s absolutely no excuse for what Kanye did. His actions are rude and uncivilzed in any race or language. They say civilization is at risk when all common manners are lost..this must be evidence that the end is near.

  17. I agree, there is no excuse for interupting someone’s acceptance speech. I dare say that if someone would have interrupted C.Hepburn or H.Bogart on stage then their career would have been kaputt! Just goes to show how far our society has changed and what is socially unacceptable. It was typical Kanye. His way of getting in the news…however rude it was…

  18. I will no longer support anything that has Kayne’s name attached to it!!! Consider yourself short one more fan you Jerk!

  19. Ok wow you people are so unforgiving… he does stupid shit but who doesn? i bet you all have done something that stupid but it just wasnt shwon NATIONALY, and KANYEHATER i can almost bet he is smarter than you cause if you were as smart as him you would be making that much money and wouldnt be commenting on something retarted he is a human being like all of us no one is perfect. so stop acting like your all pefect Patties and let it go

  20. Kanye sucks! I thought he had okay music, but I am definietly not buying anything he produced again. He might have been saying his opinion, but during Taylor’s acceptance speech?! Couldn’t he have maybe said it later? Write something on Twitter? Yell it to the crowds after the show? Why the fucking hell did he have to say it on live TV during her acceptance speech?

  21. “Kanye west sucks dick” your a fool racist piece of shit, go die with all the other skin heads fucker, yeah he did something worng but saying “nigger” that much? who the fuck do you think you are? your no better than him just for syaing all that shit you dumb ass, wow i would kill you my self if i ever herd you say that in person

  22. Kanye is a pure an utter douche.

    Someone needs to punch him in the mouth for acting that way. I don’t care whether or not he has a rep to uphold.

    Regardless of whether or not he is slightly crazy, a genius or sane, what makes him think he can act like that?
    Because he is a celeb?

    If his music community thinks this is even slightly ok – they are douche bags too.

    Kanye – laugh it off for now – i am sure you are – I hope you fail at your career soon so we no longer have to see your ugly mug.

  23. This is Kanye’s “Sinead O’Connor Moment”…Sinead went from pop icon to pop pariah almost overnight for ripping up a picture of the Pope on SNL…while she had a right to her opinion, the forum she used was deplorable…and Kanye should receive his comeuppance in the same manner…kudos to Beyonce for showing class, not to mention skillfully separating herself from that arrogant boor.

  24. Lol. Taylor is gonna get more attn now than ever. And beyonce gets to play humble, which we all know she isn’t, so who really got hurt? Why are you all acting so sad, like taylor is hurt. No one woulda gave an f about her speech otherwise. Seriously, kanye was just the messenger. He helped both those ladies out. And all yu nigger haters on here, smell like bologna and come from the mountains where you lay with swine and ate ur own shit. I’m just the messenger.

  25. Where on Earth does Kanye think he has the right to stamp someone to pieces like he did just because he doesnt agree with the results. The world doesnt revolve around him, and so what if he doesnt agree with it–but he has absolutely NO RIGHT to have gone out there and say what he did.
    Reguardless of race, gender or music prefrernces, hell, even freedom of speech, he does not have the right to do that, freedom of speech wasnt created so that ignorant jerks who dont get what they want can go and crush some innocent girl’s dream!
    Just the look on Taylor’s face after what he said should say it all, my heart went out to her, she looked like she was about to cry. You cant get much lower than that.

  26. @Dumb swift loving cunts, Okay first of all i believe in free speech or whatever but kanye took it too far. He made a Girl cry and yet you still take his side.

  27. Are you kidding me??? All I can do is hope and pray that these posts do not represent even a significant fraction of our society’s views.

    If it is, we are doomed.

    We are such and arrogant, self-serving and rightous nation. Pride is one thing, ignorance is another.

    People… get a life… go read a book.

  28. Hey!!! Fuck you “me!” Me is a complete fucking idiot without a complete clue! Me doesn’t have a fucking clue. Me BETTER pray because YOU is gonna kick ME’s ass.. mutherfucker!!! Where do YOU live, ME? HUH??? TELL ME!!! SHOW ME!!! ME is a fucking loser. ME should get lost now. ME should suck off Kanye. You

  29. LISTEN! KANYE IS SELL OUT UNCLE TOM.

    HE WAS ORDERD TO DO THAT! THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BIG EGO.

    HE INTENTIONALLY WENT TO STIR UP RACISM. THIS IS J EDGAR HOOVERS COINTEL PRO IN ACTION.

    YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO CLUE HOW EVIL THIS CONTINENT IS.

    THIS SELL OUT NIGGER WAS ORDERED BY THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO CONTROL HIM FROM A FINANCIAL LEVEL TO INTENTIONALLY MAKE A SCENE WITH THIS PETTY LITTLE WHITE COUNTRY DARLING. RETURN OF LEGITAMATE HATRED FOR BLACKS.

    CAUSE THESE PEOPLE KNOW THE MAINSTREAM POPULATION WILL GROUP ALL OF HIPHOP ARTISTS AS THE SAME AND THE MAINSTREAM WHITE MAJORITY SEE HIPHOP AS ALL TOGETHER AND ALL BLACK PEOPLE LISTEN TO HIPHOP SO NOW ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE BAD BECAUSE THIS ONE SELL OUT UNCLE TOM DICK SUCKIN HOUSE NIGGER HAS GIVEN WHITE PEOPLE THE EXCUSE..

    THE AGENDA FROM DAY ONE HAS BEEN TO KILL HIPHOP. THATS WHY HIPHOP WENT FROM MUASIC ABOUT REVOLUTION TO BITCES AND HOES.

    AS LONG AS BLACKS ARE RAPPING ABOUT BITCHES AND HOES THEY AINT RAPPIN ABOUT REVOLUTION. DO YOR HOMEWORK.

    KANYE HAS SOLD OUT TO THE WHITE MAN. HIS WHITE MASTYERS TOLD HIM TO DO IT. GIVE THE EXCUSE TO HATE BLACKS THOUGH THIS ONE THING.

  30. MR kanye west….where do I start ..he suffers from napoleaon syndrome…I listen to a lot of rap and I can honestly tell u his music is shit ..all regurgated rubbish ,in crappness he’s up there with puff daddy .lol they make me laugh banging on about the black community(I’m black)funny there probably worth half a billion dollars they dot spend a lot to improve people lives ..u are a embarresment ..

  31. Kanye West is a talentless hack who samples everybody else’s work, twists it up and then sings over it with Antares Autotune because he can’t carry a note in his designer pockets. But he’s a self proclaimed “musical genius.”

    Gay. Fish.

  32. To Kanye WE DONT LIKE YOUR KIND AROUND HERE. Kanye was just high on crack like every one else of his ‘kind’ there.

  33. Kanye West IS indeed a worthless nigger. I am generally not a racist person, but I have very strong dislike for him. He pissed me off really bad with his “President Bush doesn’t care about black people ” comment after the hurricane in the Gulf coast a few years back. Now, granted George W. Bush is a worthless sack of hillbilly shit, but he didn’t cause a hurricane to go after black people. I mean real racism does still exhist in this country and I have no respect for those who try to make a race issue out of something that has absolutely nothing what the fuck so ever to do with race.

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