Before the 2009 VMAs, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Soy Bomb and Rage Against the Machine’s Tim Commerford have been there before. By Gil Kaufman Kanye West crashes the VMA stage as Taylor Swift accepts the award for best female video on Sunday Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic For a man so hung up on being original, Kanye West pulled the oldest trick in the book on Sunday night at the VMAs when he crashed the stage during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video. For the third time at a major music awards show, West invited himself onto the stage for a righteously indignant rant against the winner, in this case the squeaky-clean, 19-year-old country phenom whose second album, Fearless, has been an unmovable staple of the top 10 for much of the past year
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Kanye West Joins A Pantheon Of Awards-Show Stage Crashers
