In a burst of Tweets, Kanye West apologized to Taylor Swift for storming the stage of the Video Music Awards a year ago, grabbing the mic out of Swift’s hands, and saying Swift did not deserve her award for Best Female Video. “I’m sorry,” he said then, “but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.”

Now, a year later, on Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend, he talked on his Twitter feed about the impact of his action on his image and his business, said he has written a song for Taylor Swift, offered an analysis of the media, and revealed himself a fan of Broadway. He has seen “Wicked” four times, he said, and saw the character of Elphaba as “my story.”

But his dozens of tweets over a period of about two hours on the subject are not as simply summed up as this. 


”These aren’t regular tweets,” West tweeted. “this is stream of consciousness … I want you guys to know and feel where my head is at…These tweets have no manager, no publicist , no grammar checking… this is raw ”

Here are (most) of his Tweets on the subject (spelling errors kept intact):

With the help of strong will, a lack of impathy, a lil alcohol and extremely distasteful & bad timing … I became George Bush over night

How deep is the scar… I bled hard.. cancelled tour with the number one pop star in the world … closed the doors of my clothing office

Had to let employees go… for the first time I felt the impact of my brash actions … I felt the recession from an ownership side

People booed when I would go to concerts and the performer mentioned my name.

Remember in Anchor Man when Ron Burgandy cursed on air and the entire city turned on him? But this wasn’t a joke. This was & is my real life

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I have a mission in life to bring truth and beauty through my music and the visuals that anchor around it

The media has successfully diminished the “receptive” audience of (3rd person)… KANYE WEST

taking a 15 second blip the mdeia have successfully painted the image of the “ANGRY BLACK MAN’ The King Kong theory.




I’m the guy who at one point could perform the Justin Timberlake on stage and everyone would be sooo happy that I was there

People tweeted that they wish I was dead… No listen. They wanted me to die people. I carry that. I smile and take pictures through that




I wear my scars… It’s almost like I have to where a suit to juxtapose my image and I won’t lie… IT WORKS!

I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that’s so beautiful and I want her to have it. If she won’t take it then I’ll perform it for her

She had nothing to do with my issues with award shows. She had no idea what hit her. She’s justa lil girl with dreams like the rest of us.

She deserves the apology more than anyone. Thank you Biz Stone and Evan Williams [founders of Twitter] for creating a platform where we can communicate directly

We’re both artist and the media and managers are trying to get between us. Everyone wants to capitalize off this in some way

I’m ready to get out of my own way. The ego is overdone… it’s like hoodies

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I watched Justin Timberlake at the Grammies loose every televised award including album of the year which the Dixie Chicks won
I would have ran on stage for Justin that night because Sexy Back (in my mind) was that important… that impactful to our culture
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I have given my awards to other groups multiple times on national TV… They never showed that this past year during the massacre of Kanye

Who’s seen the play Wicked? I’ve seen it 4 times! Other than loving the music acting and costumes… it’s my story!!!
The Wicked witch of the west basically is so convicted to tell her’ truth when she does it she is outcasted by society and turned WICKED




With new found humility … who am I to run on stage? I would never ever again in a million years do that. Sorry to let you down.




It is distasteful to cut people off as a general rule. What’s the point of dressing tastefully if I’m going to act the complete opposite?




Yes I was that guy. A 32 year old child.

When I woke up from the crazy nightmare I looked in the mirror and said GROW UP KANYE … I take the responsibility for my actions




I am not a bad person. Even in that moment I was only trying to do good but people don’t always need my help.
Beyonce didn’t need that. MTV didn’t need that and Taylor and her family friends and fans definitely didn’t want or need that.



Humanity and Empathy are 2 of the 4 principles at facebook. Those were the 2 principles I was missing on that evening
A year later where do we stand?
Why are there so many tweets? Well this isn’t a simple subject. There are layers to this beyond me running on stage 


You’ve got the top layer… Kanye’s rude!



You’ve got a layer of order… this is how things are spose to go this is how it’s always been etc.
You’ve got a layer of… What is reality? You really want this guy to die over an award show???!! wooooooow



You’ve got the Media play… Who benefitted off of the moment?
MTV? JAY LENO? BEYONCE? ALL FORMS OF MEDIA? TAYLOR? KANYE WEST? Who gained? Who lost?
There’s a layer of… hey Kanye said what I was thinking



There’s a layer of… Entertainment… we are entertainers and this is only TV… not the War
Why was it made into such a race issue. Taylor loves rap music… I love country music.



TAYLOR LOVES RAP MUSIC… I LOVE COUNTRY MUSIC



When I right songs like Heartless I always say “is this melody good enough to be a country song or a broadway song?”



I’ve hurt, I’ve bled, I’ve learned. I only want to do good. I am passionate I am human I am real. I wish I could meet every hater about 1 hour ago via web



I wish I could talk to every hater face to face and change there a opinion of me one conversation at a time.



I wish they all knew how much I really cared about music and pop culture and art and peoples feelings



I wish they could accept that I’ve grown and only want to do good for the world. I want to help as many people as I can.



I want to help starting with the music and ending with the smile.
I want to win there hearts back so I can continue to bring my take on culture to the masses with a clean opinion.



It starts 

with this…



I’m sorry Taylor.