Kanye West, MTV - MTV VMAs 2015: Vanguard Acceptance Speech lyrics

Bro bro listen to the kids jeremy, I need
I gotta put it down for a
Second it’s beautiful jeremy Scott's design

First of all, thank you Taylor for being
So gracious and giving me this award
This evening thank you and I can think back
To the first day 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 and, you
Know and at the end they say, "Oh
You’re not that bad after all" And
Like, I think about it sometimes like
It crosses my mind a
Bit like when I go to a baseball game and um
Sixty thousand people boo me 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
A half a bottle of Hennessy and gave the rest
Of it to the audience Y’all
Know y’all drink that bottle
Too if I had a daughter at that time
Would I
Have went on stage and grab the mic from
Someone else's? You know
This arena tomorrow
It’s gonna be a completely different set up
Some concert something like that
This stage will
Be gone, after that night, the stage is gone
But the effect that it had on people remain

The, the problem was, the
Contradiction, the contradiction is, i do
Fight for artists, but in
That fight I somehow
Was disrespectful to artists iI didn’t
Know how to say
The right thing the perfect thing i just
I sat at the Grammy’s and saw Justin
Timberlake and Cee-Lo lose
Gnarls Barkley and the
Future-Love "SexyBack" album
And bro…Justin I ain’t tryna
Put you on blast but I saw that man in
Tears, bro you know, and I was thinking like
"He deserve to win Album of the Year"

And this small box that we are
As the entertainers of the
Evening how could you explain that?
Sometimes I feel like
You know, all this shit they
Run about beef and that
Sometimes I feel like I died
For an artist's opinion
For an artist 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 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 work their entire life, won
Sold records, sold concert tickets
To come stand on a carpet and for
The first time in they live be
Judged on a chopping block and
Have the opportunity to be
Considered a loser i don’t
Understand it bro i
Don’t understand when the biggest album
Or the biggest video
I still don’t understand it
I been conflicted bro
I just wanted people to like me
More but fuck that bro!
Two thousand and fifteen i will die for the
Art for what I believe in and
The art ain't always gonna be polite y’all
Might be thinking right now, I wonder, did
He smoke something before he came up
Here? The answer is yes, i rolled up a
Little something, I knocked the edge off i
Don’t know what’s gonna happen tonight
I don’t know what's going
To happen tomorrow bro

But all I can say to
My artists, my fellow artists
Just worry how you feel at the time man
Just worry about how you
Feel and don’t never, you know
What I’m saying, I’m confident, i
Believe in myself we the millennials
Bro, this is a new
This is a new mentality we not gonna
Control our kids with brands
We’re not gonna teach
Low self-esteem and hate to our kids
We’re gonna teach our kids that they
Can be something we gonna
Teach our kids that they can stand up
For themselves we 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, it ain’t about me
It’s about ideas people with new 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