Kanye Calls Taylor to Apologize

'It was rude, period,' says rapper, who asked for chance to speak on Jay's new show

(AP) - Kanye West told Jay Leno tonight he's going to take some time off for reflection after ruining Taylor Swift's night at the MTV Video Music Awards. Appearing on Leno's new 10pm NBC show, West said he knew he was wrong as soon as he handed the microphone back to Swift, after interrupting during last night's show to argue that Beyoncé was more deserving of the best female video award. More»

VMA debacle with Taylor Swift 'merely a way to distract' from MTV's lacking lineup

(NEWSER) - Kanye West’s outburst at last night’s Video Music Awards allowed MTV “to sneak up behind the rest of the cable lineup and command the television-watching nation’s attention"—a definite coup when you consider it was competing with the US Open, football, and the True Blood finale, and the fact “that this year’s awards were very lacking in buzz,” writes Maura on the Idolator blog. Which begs the question: Was it staged? More»

... While Lady Gaga runs away with awards

(NEWSER) - Taylor Swift forgave Kanye West last night In an unusual musical reconciliation at the MTV Video Music Awards. "Who you are is not what you did," Swift sang to the rapper who rudely stormed onstage last year to challenge Swift's victory in the Best Female Video category. Kanye acknowledged his bad-boy behavior in his own song that ended the program. "Let's toast to the scumbags," he crooned, apparently referring to himself. While the two singers were making nice, Lady Gaga swept the awards, grabbing eight top honors, including wins for Best Pop, Dance, Female Video, and Video of the Year for Bad Romance. More»

(NEWSER) - Just when the Kanye West-Taylor Swift meme was starting to ebb a bit, there’s this from the rumor mill: West, awards-show interrupter, will make a cameo when Swift, awards-show interruptee, hosts Saturday Night Live on Nov. 7. Quoth gossip maven Perez Hilton: “Sources tell us this is very likely to happen!” (Italics, exclamation his.) Stay tuned, then. More»

No word on what killed the 'Fame Kills' partnership

(NEWSER) - Kanye West and Lady Gaga aren’t hitting the road together after all, but there’s no word tonight on what might have been the death knell for the Fame Kills Tour. The circus was to have opened Nov. 10, but in addition to rumors it was on thin ice after West’s award-show interruption of Taylor Swift, MTV notes that, though the rapper announced the tour in the spring, reps didn’t confirm it until weeks ago. More»