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  • The Situation: Kanye West took the stage to accept his Video Vanguard Award and made an intense speech about how messed up award shows are.
  • The Verdict: This is so genius. Kanye goes to accept an award, at an award show. He then talks about how awards and award shows wrongfully pit artists against each other, and how it's just all about the drama and the ratings. He was going in on MTV . . . at MTV's award show. Oh, and he never did say thank you for that moonman.
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