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Rapper JAY-Z has defended Kanye West for his outburst at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards. West interrupted Taylor Swift’s award speech to tell the world her award should have gone to JAY-Z’s wife, Beyonce. JAY-Z told BBC’s Radio 1 that Kanye is a super-passionate person although he admitted it was rude for Kanye to interrupted Swift.

“I think it was rude but the way they’re treating him… He’s on the cover of every paper. He didn’t kill anybody. No one got harmed.”

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Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV’s Video Music Awards. He said, “Taylor, I’m really happy for you, and I’m gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time.” Later on, Kanye spoke to Taylor’s mother and he apologized on his blog for his unsporting behavior.

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Attention music lovers and everyone else, come this Sunday, you’ll be able to witness one of the biggest performance on a single night. Yes, that’s right. For the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, MTV exclusively bring you the performances by Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, The All-American Rejects, Alicia Keys, Pink, Muse, Green Day, Taylor Swift and more. That’s not all, there will be an exclusive sneak peak of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Just stay tune to MTV at 9pm ET.

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