Kanye, who said that he had a little 'sippy sippy' before the show, apologized on his website, adding, ' I'M NOT CRAZY YALL, I'M JUST REAL. And when Beyonce won Video of the Year for 'Single Ladies,' she remembered her first VMA nomination, 'It was one of the most exciting moments in my life, so I'd like for Taylor to come out and have her moment.' The two embraced and Swift said, 'Maybe we can try this again.' (Video after the jump.) Beyonce was up for nine VMAs and walked away with three, but not before she set figurative fire to the Radio City stage with her visually mesmerizing rendition of 'Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It). Swift did manage to perform in the subway and on the city streets later (she actually took the F train from 42nd Street to 47th-50th, leaving the station via an emergency exit -yes, the alarm went off-video after the jump). By the time the 2009 VMAs rolled around, Single Ladies was absolutely everywhere. Gawker declared Kanye 'a dick' and Cajun Boy at Animal New York decided, 'The thought did occur to me that this whole thing might just be another of the many VMA pranks we’ve seen over the years, but this just seems too bizarre to be a hoax, and Kanye West is enough of an asshole to do something like this, so yeah, it all makes perfect sense.' Apparently Swift and her mother were crying backstage. West was booed by the audience-while Swift looked confused-and he was asked to leave (possibly for his own safety-security had to keep Pink from him!).

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