Kanye West 'Felt Very Alone' After Taylor Swift Fiasco

By PopEater Staff Posted Sep 15th 2010 02:15PM

After a year of avoiding the press, Kanye West is ready to tell his side of the story. The 'Runaway' singer penned his first article for XXL magazine , and PopEater has the exclusive first look at his reaction to the 2009 Taylor Swift VMA debacle.

"I stress that the incident wasn't about Taylor personally. And it definitely wasn't about race. Where I messed up is, at the end of the day, it's your show, Taylor. It's your show, MTV," West explains in XXL's October 2010 issue, on stands next week.

"The relationship with the public and with your fans is like the relationship with your girlfriend. How could I not, at a certain point, be like, 'I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been at the awards show. I'm sorry.' Not that I don't deserve to get beat up or change who I am inside, to make sure that that doesn't happen again."

West is, of course, speaking about the notorious night last year when he stormed the stage at the VMAs, grabbed Swift's mic and told the audience that a different artist (Beyonce) deserved to win the Best Female Video award that had just been awarded to the young pop star.

During Sunday night's 2010 VMAs, West performed his non-answer to Swift's song about him. And while he didn't exactly address last year's incident, he did take aim at his disrespectful behavior.

"I knew I wasn't in a great spot publicly after the incident, but I would just block it out and work as hard as possible and let my work be my saving grace. In a way, I had thrown a Molotov cocktail at my own career, and it gave me an opportunity, for the first time, to go away and find out who I was. Because I felt very alone," he writes in the mag.

In addition to penning his own article, West curated and creatively directed 40 pages of the magazine.

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Wednesday 15 September

By KT

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What is this strange obsession with kanye and tylor swift ?? The best performer on the VMA was JUSTIN BIEBER.Thats who we should be talking about not some stupid thing that happened a year ago.IT`S JUSTINS TIME !! YAYYY JUSTIN !!!

By Leeseyoo27

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Justin Bieber? The same Justin Bieber who obviously lip-synched his ENTIRE performance? Wow...

By themeeker

kt take your meds. Justine Bleeber sux and you know it. I'm sick of him and I'm sick of you.

By Meself

That's so sad, when Justin B is the highlight of the show....:(

By Dan Goldman

Sarcasm is obviously something foreign to you people.

By JEATON

Justin Bieber?

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Thursday 16 September

By mrblabbermouth

you are either a preteen girl or a nambla member no one over 12 thinks bleeber can sing he sounds just like every other little kid trying to sing when voice hasnt grown up yet

By colin

seriously boo hoo kanye. again, all about you. how about some humility. do you think that maybe you took the best moment of taylors life away from her? He is THE worst. he needs to go away forever. what a dope.

By Slash

Bieber ? WTF? KT you need your reproductive organs removed so you cant have kids in the future.

By Sue

When all you little girls grow up, you're going to wonder why you ever thought Justin B. was hot. For one thing, he "sounds" like a kid. Secondly, his hair is ridiculous. He obviously spends hours on his hair and you can tell he obsesses about his hair ALL the time. He's always touching and patting it down. I would love for someone to catch Bieber unawares...with his hair being blown crazy by the wind. You know how he'd re-act, dontcha?

By BA

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yeah it was a great performance

By Mr. Leo

Kanye = GAY FISH

Friday 17 September

By Courtney

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KT, you obviously have NO MUSIC SENSE!! And 5th graders should not be watching MTV!!! Also your opinion doesn't count if you have to go to concerts with your parents! LOL Don't you have homework to do or something?

Tuesday 19 October

By zzzz

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ITS A FRICKEN ARTICLE! IF YOU WANT TO READ ABOUT JUSTIN BIEBER,THERE ARE ARTICLES ABOUT HIM SOMEWHERE ELSE!. Some people actually are interested in what kanye has to say whether we hate him or not. So obviously GTFO if you don't like this. Did you really expect to read about Justin Bieber when you looked at this page? Stay away from pages you don't want to read.

Wednesday 20 October

By Robert

Who the F**K is justin bever?

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