Kanye West Slams Taylor Swift – Today In Country Music History [VIDEO]

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Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" wins Best Female Video during the MTV Video Music Awards. Rapper Kanye West interrupts her acceptance speech at New York's Radio City Music Hall to insist that Beyonce should have won.

West stormed the stage just after the first award, for Best Female Video, was presented to Swift. He cut the teen singer off, grabbing the mic and protesting in support of Beyoncé, proclaiming:

“Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!”

His protest against Swift, however, was not well received. West stood briefly on the stage after his comments as the crowd was silent. Audience members then began to clap in support of Swift after West left the stage. According to reports from inside the house, once cameras cut away from the action, West flipped off the crowd and returned to his seat.

During the next commercial break, singer Pink walked by the rapper and appeared to shake her head in disgust before security escorted her away. West remained steadfast amidst the commotion.

Later in the show, in a complete show of class and professionalism, Beyoncé told the audience about her first VMA win as a 17-year-old with Destiny’s Child and how much it meant to her. The singer then called Swift from backstage to huge applause. Beyonce and Swift exchanged a hug before Beyoncé passed the mic to the teen artist.

“Maybe we can try this again,” Swift said, drawing a laugh.

“I would really like to thank Roman White, who directed the video, and Lucas Till for being in it,” Swift said. “I would like to thank all the fans on Twitter and MySpace and everyone that came out to my shows this summer. And I would like to thank my little brother’s high school for letting us shoot there.”

West would later issue an apology to Swift via Twitter and again on a previously scheduled appearance on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno the following night.