“Listen to the kids bro!”
By Kyla Miller

Editor in Chief

            One of biggest nights in music occurred on August 31. No, I’m not talking about the Grammy’s; I’m talking about the MTV Video Music Awards, or most commonly known as the VMAs.

As usual a lot of crazy and exciting events happened but possibly one of the most anticipated and interesting things that happened was Kanye West’s acceptance speech for the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, also known as the Lifetime Achievement Award.

            Although this award is not an annually given, it has been presented to phenomenal musicians in recent years such as Beyonce (2014), Justin Timberlake (2013), and Britney Spears (2011). Although Beyonce and Justin Timberlake gave performances along with an acceptance speech, Kanye only gave an acceptance speech but a brilliant acceptance speech it was.

            To most people Kanye’s speech seemed to be an intoxicated rant about a bunch of nothing. In fact, during Kanye’s speech there were a lot of people asking, “What is Kanye talking about?”

         "I don’t understand how they get five people who worked their entire life … sold records, sold concert tickets to come stand on the carpet and for the first time in their life be judged on the chopping block and have the opportunity to be considered a loser!”

            One of the most interesting events of his speech was when he called MTV out for continuously playing the clip of his incident with Swift and then by having her present him with the Video Vanguard Award six years later in an effort to produce “more ratings.”

            Finally after a passionate monologue about the Millennials and his hope for the future he concluded his speech with a surprise.
            “As you probably could’ve guessed by this moment, I have decided, in 2020, to run for president.” Will you vote for Kanye?