Kanye West在今晚的MTV音乐录影带颁奖典礼上获得了迈克尔杰克逊视频先锋奖，他宣布将在2020年竞选总统，结束了自己的获奖感言。是的，真的！

当韦斯特被一位意料之外的同龄人交给了他的月亮人：当政流行天后/曾经的坎耶“受害者”泰勒·斯威夫特时，这一段就以一声巨响开始了。在一段讲述了韦斯特职业生涯各个部分的剪辑的蒙太奇之后，斯威夫特走上舞台，谈论了她的韦斯特迷以及他对她的职业生涯的影响。她引用了韦斯特2009年声名狼藉的VMA插话来结束自己的演讲——你知道，那次他冲上台，从斯威夫特手中抢过麦克风为碧昂丝辩护é'他的工作——宣布他拥有“有史以来最伟大的职业之一”

“我将为艺术而死，为我的信仰而死。”

韦斯特接着长篇大论地谈到了被父亲身份所改变，为艺术性辩护，媒体的虚伪，颁奖典礼的荒谬，以及在上台前抽一点烟来“消遣”。是的，真的(这只是众多选择语录中的一句：“我将为艺术而死，为我的信仰而死——而艺术并不总是有礼貌的！”他没有表演任何音乐，这是最近视频先锋奖得主碧昂丝的一个重大突破é 贾斯汀·汀布莱克（Justin Timberlake）在2014年和2013年分别获得冠军时，两人都表演了漫长的、跨越职业生涯的混合泳——但他的演讲无疑构成了一种特殊的、独特的表演。

嘿，谁知道呢——五年后，韦斯特可能会把这种标志性的强烈和大胆带到白宫(带上第一夫人金·卡戴珊·韦斯特

以下是韦斯特演讲全文：

Bro, bro, listen to the kids. Jeremy, I got to put it down for a second, it's beautiful, Jeremy Scott designed... First of all, thank you Taylor for being so gracious and giving me this award this evening. And I often think back to the first day that I met you. Also, you know, I think about when I'm in the grocery store with my daughter and I have a really great conversation about fresh juice, you know, and at the end they say, "You're not that bad after all." And I think about it sometimes, like it crosses my mind when I go to a baseball game and 60,000 people boo me. It crosses my mind a little bit.

And I think, if I had to do it all again, what would i have done? Would I have worn a leather shirt? Would I have drank half a bottle of Hennessy and given the rest to the audience? Y'all know you drank that bottle too. If I had a daughter at that time, would I have went on stage and grabbed the mic from someone else's...

You know this arena, tomorrow, it's gonna be a completely different set up or something like that. This stage will be gone. After that night, the stage will be gone, but the effect it had on people will remain. The problem was the contradiction. The contradiction is: I do fight for artists, but in that fight I somehow was disrespectful to artists. I didn't know how to say the right thing, the perfect thing. I just... I sat at the Grammys and saw Justin Timberlake and Cee-Lo lose. Gnarls Barkley and the Future Sex album... Justin, I ain't trying to put you on blast but I saw that man in tears, bro. And I was thinking like, he deserves to win album of the year. And this **all box that we are in as the entertainers of the evening. How could you explain that? Sometimes I feel like, you know, all this bullshit that they run about beef and all that, sometimes I feel like I died for the artist's opinion. For the artists to be able to have an opinion after they were successful. I'm not no politician, bro. And look at that. You know how many times MTV ran that footage again? 'cause it got them more ratings. You know how many times they announced that Taylor was gonna give me the award? 'cause it got them more ratings. Listen to the kids, bro.

I still don't understand award shows. I don't understand how they get five people who worked their entire life one sold records, sold concert tickets, to come stand on a carpet and for the first time in their life be judged on a chopping block and have the opportunity to be c***idered a loser. I don't understand it, brah. I don't understand when the biggest album and the biggest video... I've been conflicted, bro! I just wanted people to like me more. Fuck it bro.

Two thousand and fifteen. I will die for the art, for what I believe in. The art ain't always gonna be polite. Y'all might be thinking right now, "I wonder, did he **oke something before he came here?" The answer is yes, I rolled up a little something to knock the edge off. I don't know what's gonna happen tonight. I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow, bro. But all I can say to my artist, my fellow artist, just worry about how you feel at the time man. Just worry about how you feel and don't never... I'm confident, I believe in myself. We the millennials, bro. This is a new mentality. We're not gonna control our kids with brands. We're not gonna teach low self esteem and that to our kids. We gonna teach our kids that they can be something. We're gonna teach our kids that they can stand up for themselves. We're gonna teach our kids to believe in themselves. If my grandfather was here right now he would not let me back down. I don't know what I'm finna lose after this, it don't matter though cause it ain't about me. It's about ideas bro, new ideas. People with ideas. People who believe in truth. And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.