Kanye West just disclosed the actual reason for interrupting Taylor Swift’s 2009 VMA speech. Kanye West informed Nick Cannon on his Class podcast that “God” was the one who urged him to do it. He also mentioned how he had all the odds in his favor to stop Taylor.

During a recent interview with Nick Cannon, West said, “Right now, God is giving me the information and he ain’t give me no other information. So that means he wants me to say this now.”

“If God ain’t want me to run on stage and say Beyoncé had the best video, he wouldn’t have sat me in the front row,” he said.

“I would’ve been sitting in the back and they would’ve made it the first award and he wouldn’t have made it so ridiculous, because I had never heard of this person before.”

He continued: “And ‘Single Ladies’ is like one of the greatest videos of all time…. And I was only drinking Hennessy because I didn’t want to go to the awards show ’cause it was a set-up!”

Swift has yet to respond to West’s recent remarks, however she has previously stated that she would “very much like to be excluded from this narrative,” so there’s a strong chance she won’t.

At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, West famously hopped onto the stage as Swift was receiving the award for Best Female Video for “You Belong With Me.” The rapper was adamant that Beyoncé should have won the award for “Single Ladies,” and he let the entire world know it.

“Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time,” he said after grabbing the microphone. (Beyoncé went on to win video of the year for “Single Ladies.”)

Kanye West’s VMAs 2009 speech stunned not just Beyonce, but a number of celebrities subsequently stated that Taylor Swift felt terrible about it.

West also stated in the 44-minute interview that he found the Bible after being hospitalized on his 2016 Saint Pablo tour.

“The first time I was put into the hospital in 2016, I actually started reading the Bible,” he said.

“That was part of what God hit me with. And you know, God… has a calling on all of us, and He uses us in different ways. When I went to the hospital the first time, one of the things I wrote down was ‘start a church in Calabasas.’ And we sang Jesus’s name to the hills in the center of the city of Los Angeles.”

“I’m not going to lie to you, I like being cool. I didn’t go into an environment to come off uncool.”