There's something that I wanted to say so bad, that they told me I couldn't say. That night, when I went on stage, was the beginning of the end of my life. Lady Gaga canceled the tour [we were co-headlining] the next day," he said about his interruption of Taylor Swift's award acceptance at the MTV VMAs in 2009.
He went on, via Rappler:
And I had to fight every day of my life when the whole world turned against me for saying out loud what everyone else felt. But that's the job of an artist–of a true artist–not to be controlled by the finances, not to be controlled by perception, but only to be controlled by their truth–what you see, what you feel, and say what you ****ing feel. You know the night I'm talking about, when I just said what everybody else was thinking. So if I get in trouble for saying the truth, what's being said the rest of the time?
ok now Kanye
