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Talk about serious pre-album promotion. As if dropping a free song every week until Christmas wasn’t enough of a marketing strategy for Kanye West, now he has offered another apology to Taylor Swift for his VMA antics.

Perhaps because this year’s award show takes place Sept. 12 – and they’re both attending – he felt the need to revisit the fiasco that had everyone–including the President–calling him names.

“I’m sorry Taylor,” he wrote in 140 character per minute stream of consciousness. “She had nothing to do with my issues with award shows. She had no idea what hit her. She’s justa lil girl with dreams like the rest of us.”

Kanye also added that he’d written a song for Taylor and hopes that she performs it. I guess if Chris Brown can get redemption from the people why can’t Kanye?

Read the entire Twitter Manifesto below. (props to NecoleBitchie for transcribing)

Man I love Twitter… I’ve always been at the mercy of the press but no more… The media tried to demonize me. They wanted yall to believe I was a monster in real life so you guys wouldn’t listen or buy my music anymore. I feel like they were waiting for the opportunity to go in all the way on me and when it came they beat me to a pulp.

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Even now a lot of articles start there first 2 paragraphs about how much of an asshole I am. I accept the idea (ideal) that perception is reality. When I say perception is reality I mean whatever you think is the truth… is your truth. Some people’s truth is Kanye is racist… It’s not my truth but I do believe it’s my Karma…. walk with me..

Even though the NBC telethon was widely praised yall didn’t think they was just gone let me get away with that did yall???!!! With the help of strong will, a lack of .impathy, a lil alcohol and extremely distasteful & bad timing … I became George Bush over night.

How deep is the scar… I bled hard.. cancelled tour with the number one pop star in the world … closed the doors of my clothing office. Had to let employees go… for the first time I felt the impact of my brash actions … I felt the recession from an ownership side. People booed when I would go to concerts and the performer mentioned my name. Remember in Anchor Man when Ron Burgandy cursed on air and the entire city turned on him? But this wasn’t a joke. This was & is my real life. There are people who don’t dislike me… they absolutely hate me!

I was chilling with this white girl having a conversation and she cut me off and said… Hold up… I thought you didn’t like us?! That’s when you realize perception is reality. I’ve been straying from this subject on twitter but I have to give it to you guys raw now.

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If you google Asshole my face may very well pop up 2 pages into the search.

Some people say… Why worry about “the haters?” This is bigger that just the concept of haters. I have a mission in life to bring truth and beauty through my music and the visuals that anchor around it. The media has successfully diminished the “receptive” audience of (3rd person)… KANYE WEST

.taking a 15 second blip the media have successfully painted the image of the “ANGRY BLACK MAN’ The King Kong theory. I’m the guy who at one point could perform the Justin Timberlake on stage and everyone would be sooo happy that I was there. People tweeted that they wish I was dead… No listen. They wanted me to die people. I carry that. I smile and take pictures through that. I wear my scars… It’s almost like I have to where a suit to juxtapose my image and I won’t lie… IT WORKS!

I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that’s so beautiful and I want her to have it. If she won’t take it then I’ll perform it for her. She had nothing to do with my issues with award shows. She had no idea what hit her. She’s just a lil girl with dreams like the rest of us. She deserves the apology more than anyone. Thank you Biz Stone and Evan Williams for creating a platform where we can communicate directly

We’re both artist and the media and managers are trying to get between us. Everyone wants to capitalize off this is some way. I’m ready to get out of my own way. The ego is overdone… it’s like hoodies. I know there are family members friends and fans that have literally fought for me. There are people who have named there kids after me… can you imagine that next day in school. Even though I don’t have kids…

I am responsible for those who love and represent me and what they have to deal with on a day to day defending “The American Psycho”. I watched Justin Timberlake at the Grammies loose every televised award including album of the year which the Dixie Chicks won.

I would have ran on stage for Justin that night because Sexy Back (in my mind) was that important… that impactful to our culture. It’s not about race America. No one in our position ever stands up and says anything anymore. I have given my awards to other groups multiple times on national TV… They never showed that this past year during the massacre of Kanye.

Who’s seen the play Wicked? I’ve seen it 4 times! Other than loving the music acting and costumes… it’s my story!!! The Wicked witch of the west basically is so convicted to tell her’ truth when she does it she is outcasted by society and turned WICKED! With new found humility … who am I to run on stage? I would never ever again in a million years do that. Sorry to let you down.

It is distasteful to cut people off as a general rule. What’s the point of dressing tastefully if I’m going to act the complete opposite? Yes I was that guy. A 32 year old child. When I woke up from the crazy nightmare I looked in the mirror and said GROW UP KANYE … I take the responsibility for my actions!

I am not a bad person. Even in that moment I was only trying to do good but people don’t always need my help.Beyonce didn’t need that. MTV didn’t need that and Taylor and her family friends and fans definitely didn’t want or need that.

These aren’t regular tweets… this is stream of consciousness … I want you guys to know and feel where my head is at… It feels like the movie Heat when you wanted Deniro to make it… You want the bad guy to make it. These tweets have no manager, no publicist , no grammar checking… this is raw

Humanity and Empathy are 2 of the 4 principles at facebook. Those were the 2 principles I was missing on that evening. Why are there so many tweets? Well this isn’t a simple subject. There are layers to this beyond me running on stage.

You’ve got the top layer… Kanye’s rude! You’ve got a layer of order… this is how things are spose to go this is how it’s always been etc. You’ve got a layer of… What is reality? You really want this guy to die over an award show???!! wooooooow ….You’ve got the Media play… Who benefitted off of the moment? MTV? JAY LENO? BEYONCE? ALL FORMS OF MEDIA? TAYLOR? KANYE WEST? Who gained? Who lost?

Walk with me people… let’s break this down for real now. I might get in trouble again lol? WHO BENEFITED FOR REAL PEOPLE???!!!!!!!! A year later where do we stand?

There’s a layer of… hey Kanye said what I was thinking. There’s a layer of… Entertainment… we are entertainers and this is only TV… not the War. Why was it made into such a race issue. Taylor loves rap music… I love country music.

I’ve hurt, I’ve bled, I’ve learned. I only want to do good. I am passionate I am human I am real. I wish I could meet every hater. I wish I could talk to every hater face to face and change there a opinion of me one conversation at a time. I wish they all knew how much I really cared about music and pop culture and art and peoples feelings.

I wish they could accept that I’ve grown and only want to do good for the world. I want to help as many people as I can. I want to help starting with the music and ending with the smile. I want to win there hearts back so I can continue to bring my take on culture to the masses with a clean opinion.

It starts with this…

I’m sorry Taylor.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    The music buisiness has ALWAYS been unfair since 1900, and it shows NO sign of changing in 2010, but Kanye won’t live this down, and MTV will NEVER let him forget this, but they will invite him and probably DUCT Tape his his trap, too…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Leticia39/ Leticia39

    They should just hang the guy. How dare he snatch the mic from a WHITE-WOMAN…….*opens mouth in shock*

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Leticia39/ Leticia39

    S-N-O-W-B-U-N-N-Y

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    That would had happened 100 years ago, Leticia……

    she’s kinda annor-I mean skinney……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Hokage-Sama69/ Hokage-Sama69

    well i dont like taylor swift…nor do i like kanye…but what he did was very rude. do u think he woulda done that at the BET awards? or the source awards? i dont think so. and remember….its not his 1st…or 2nd time doing that. kanye is just a arrogant attention seeking bastard. what he did had nothing to do with beyonce. that kneegrow been had the “all eyez on me” mentality….effin loser.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackscholarMI/ BlackscholarMI

    For any so-called Black person to wish that another Blackmale(whether if you like his music or not) should be on the receiving of an Medieval practice in the form of a “hanging or lynching”, is a “clear and present danger” and traitor to the Black community. In fact, I would even question your actual ethnicity by asserting that “You Belong to Our Group.” Finally, I also say that you’re probably a White male/female presenting yourself as a Black by submitting the most outlandish comments. That said, you have been exposed as an imposter.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Of course Kanye would’nt have done this to a stronger person. But his apology isn’t even sincere. How he gonna write a song and hope she performs it? NAGRAZ! But i’ve been over this incident for a long time.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackscholarMI/ BlackscholarMI

    For the highly uninformed who wish the Mr. West become a victim of a prison rape, I would suggest you read the following (see below dotted line)before articulating this thought publicly again.

    Prison Rape, America’s Torture
    By MARGARET KIMBERLEY

    In the same week in which the world was told about mass rapes taking place in the Congo, a report was released which detailed the prevalence of rape in prisons and jails across the United States. In 2008 and 2009, 88,500 adults held in jails and prisons reported being sexually assaulted. The rates of exploitation of juveniles is even higher, one in eight will be victimized during their incarceration. Those are numbers that ought to give rise to mass protest around the nation.

    American journalists will go all the way to Africa to report on sexual assault when they are able to inform the world on the same subject without ever leaving home. Rape in the Congo or Haiti are viewed as a kind of strange pornography, allowing Americans to see themselves as superior, and others, usually black people, as inferior and inhuman.

    Movies and jokes told by stand up comics elicit bizarre interest or laughs if the subject is rape behind bars. The horror of sexual assault is usually not considered amusing, unless it takes place in America’s prison industrial complex.

    Talking about prison rape means acknowledging the full horror of this nation’s reliance on the prison system to keep some groups, black American’s in particular, in a place of ultimate control and subservience. The 2 million person prison population is fully one half black, a statistic which in and of itself ought to create outrage and protest.

    It is right and proper to be angry that Omar Khadr, taken into custody as a minor and threatened with rape, should still be detained at Guantanamo. It is not right to focus on the Khadr case without also acknowledging the horrors inherent in the American prison system, the largest on earth. Nations openly scorned as backward and uncivilized have but a fraction of their populace behind bars. The self-described “land of the free” is anything but, with only 5 percent of the world’s population and almost 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.

    Americans are not only at significant risk of sexual and other assaults in this country’s penal institutions. The majority of them face this risk without having committed a serious, violent crime. There are people living behind bars because they neglected to pay a bill. It is not illegal to owe a debt, but in some jurisdictions it is illegal to ignore a court summons issued because of that debt. Body attachments and bench warrants are issued for failure to pay medical bills, credit cards and child support, bringing back the debtors prisons of centuries ago. The lack of action on prison rape is even more egregious when the flimsiness of cause of incarceration is taken into account.

    Apparently it is easier to take seriously the horrors inflicted upon women in the Congo without batting an eye at the plight of American women subject to sexual assault while in custody here at home. There is no need to soul search to ask questions about one’s own system if the persons in need of sympathy are far away. It is more difficult to question and to make demands on this nation, and to ponder the reasons why such brutality is permitted.

    The figures on prison rape were released as a result of congressional action taken in 2003, when George W. Bush was president and Republicans were in control of congress. The Prison Rape Elimination Act requires the Justice Department to implement and take action to stem this violence. Yet it is the Obama administration Justice Department which now drags its feet. Attorney General Eric Holder has already missed a deadline to begin implementation of policies that would reduce the frequency of prison sexual assault. Instead of addressing this issue as required by congress, Holder makes excuses and blandly states that he “regrets” not having his homework done on time.

    The high rate of sexual assaults in prison are yet another example of American’s willful ignorance of anything which might prove their nation to be criminal in its actions. America drops bombs, invades and occupies, and legalizes torture yet other peoples are labeled as uncivilized and the criminal enablers see themselves as good and superior.

    Jails and prisons are filled with the most vulnerable people and groups in society. It isn’t surprising that their vulnerability is so easily exploited but it should not be accepted and the chief law enforcement officer shouldn’t be allowed to put this issue on the back burner.

    Perhaps Justice Department action will engender a wider debate about America’s judicial system. That would be a step in the right direction, but for now, the victims of prison sexual assault need justice, and their numbers need to decrease dramatically and quickly.

    Margaret Kimberley is a columnist for the Black Agenda Report. Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgandaReport.Com.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/johncania/ johncania

    you know you have messed up big time when the president of the united states calls you “A JACK ASSSSSS”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LastManStandingTall/ LastManStandingTall

    The fact the he has an album coming out completely explains his apology. People gave him a pass for his Hurricane Katrina outburst. That went right to his head. He shot his mouth off one too many times and he’s paying for this one. He deserves every bit of what he’s getting and more. I must say that it was refreshing not hearing this overrated hippity-hop azzhole interjecting his unsolicted opinions at every turn.

    I hope Taylor Swift doesn’t do his stupid-azz song. This is Kanye trying to take control over her again. She should let him pizz off and put out his song every week and let all his slap-nut fans admire and worship him and talk about how awesome he is. It’s lost on me but I guess he does it for some (LOL)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/younghazelj/ younghazelj

    ok, let me break this down for a couple of you guys. first, the whole katrina rant with him in the interview, while you may not agree with the way he says things, but we know bush doesnt like black people! the reason he said it is because he called katrina victims refugees. sicne when were american citizens refugees?! they didn’t come from haiti…a*****e! second, he could have skipped the whole taylpr swift thing but why did he do it? hmm, look at this. before that, nobody outside country music even knew who she really was, but thanks to mr. self centered kanye, way more people knew who she was, got curious and she sold even more then. was it planned? hmm, who knows but kanye can go about doing things a lot differently. it’s like he has talent (and no one will deny that here) but he’s a too encentric for most people taste. That’s why no one wants to listen. If he takes his meds, he may get things across without being so abrasive

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/The-Flo/ The-Flo

    Kanye deserved a kick in the ass and he got it! His c**kyness was a little over the top but whos isn’t? Get over it people! Nobody’s perfect so lets stop acting like celebrities should be. Even if his apology wasn’t sincere(??), he did! Most people(Celebs or not) wouldn’t have…period! He is an exceptional artist though! Anyone who thinks otherwise is retarded. I’m not just saying this because I’m from Chicago but because it’s true. People are waaay too critical and judgemental and should slap themselves for some of the things they think and say…and to the dummies who don’t know…George Bush DON’T…like Black People! Get a clue.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Harvey33/ Harvey33

    Look what he did was wrong,but does it truly merit this type of hate.Just three weeks ago Dr.Racist said n****r 11 times and insulted all blacks,and we didn’t have this type of rage. Just the other day Kate Hudson ex said that she had no talent.Not one peep from the media,remember when she performed whit Stevie Nicks last year and she could not sing and her team blamed it on the microphone. Remember the reaction from Pink and her fellow country stars,They said they wanted to beat or kill him. Even President House N****r said something against him. The problem with Kanye West is that he believe in himself and is not afraid to say whats on his mind right or wrong. How many times have whites diss us and we said nothing? We allowed the media to do the very same thing to so many other blacks, like Micheal Jackson Mike Tyson Chris Brown just to name a few.And like fools we join in and dump on them as well. We need to stop think and listen before we hold our people to this unfair standard. He said he was sorry,it’s been a year now,move on.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dairy4u04/ Dairy4u04

    Why is Kanye still apologizing? Geesh, enough already. He needs to stop trying to please whitey. For real. The only reason Kanye got bad press about this is because he’s black and Taylor is white, and an overrated white singer at that. Who cares, the incident was funny as hell to me.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/angieb30/ angieb30

    Sorry I happen to like Kanye….He has not shot anyone, nor has he claimed to….He is not a drug abuser, nor has he claimed to be…I mean damn give one of OUR OWN a break for pete’s sake…..TAYLOR SWIFT MY A**!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/manba1/ manba1

    Look all of you who is defending him is being played! He the one who is keeping this going, the more you stir sh*t the stinker it gets. First of he was wrong, the first time jumping his azz on stage and snatching the mic from her but he manned up apologized , that is where it should had been left at! He smart enough to know that he can apologize a thousand times and with some it won’t make a hell of a difference so enough already! He have another motive to this apology and it’s “money” hoping to capitalize on his new c.d’s coming out then offering her a song that he written. I hope that he put this apology sh*t to rest concerning her and next time think before reacting as dumb as he did that night.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/reallyright64/ reallyright64

    HASN’T HE DONE THIS SONG AND DANCE ALREADY??? HE NEEDS TO MOVE ON AFTER THIS POINT ALL THIS IS IS KISSING A** AND IT IS REALLY GETTING IRRITATING WATCHING THIS “ARTIST” MAKE AN A** OF HIMSELF EVERYOTHER WEEK.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Black_Hazes/ Black_Hazes

    Who cares. The whole thing was staged anyways…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/soveu34/ soveu34

    Well Kanye needs to be satisfy with himselfs so let him do his thing he don’t owe no one any apologies its done and over with but if it helps him heal so be it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ECCENTRICFLOWER29/ ECCENTRICFLOWER29

    Ok now im not a fan of Kanye West but he has already apologized enough to this chick, she got lots of fame from it, and he got put in his place and beyonce got to look like a winner by giving her even more shine. this is old news, i dont like him but let him move on now..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sngwrytr/ sngwrytr

    Eerybody… and I do mean EVERYBODY… needs to let it go and move on

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sngwrytr/ sngwrytr

    Everybody… and I do mean EVERYBODY… needs to let it go and move on

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MrWantSomeNewBooty/ MrWantSomeNewBooty

    I’m a fan of Kanye and as far as I’m concerned this is pretty much a non issue. There are far more important things in life to worry about. He did the right thing and apologized but now he needs to let it go and we all need to move on from this.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SeizeTheMoment215/ SeizeTheMoment215

    Whether MTV or Taylor Swift forget it or not, Kanye is still gonna do numbers,His music is still good, he is one of the most creative in the game. Get over it and move on. Oh poor lil Taylor Swift. Cry me a river. She will be okay.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sosogood33/ sosogood33

    If you dont stand for sumthing you’ll fall for anything. Maybe this coward ass nigga will keep his mouth shut. Those white people jump dat ass.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smiley392/ smiley392

    hey didnt he already apologize the day after it happen why now cus white people dont care for him anymore they been stop caring when he said goerge bush dont care about black people i guess he forgot that one lol ..but i say f**k!! that white b***h!!!if it wasnt for him doin tha dumb s**t to begin with she wouldnt be as populure as she is right now that b***h should be thanking him.. i are black people can be so dumb when it comes to white people ..wake up black people its a new day for the black man be afraid of god not the other race!!!

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