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Kanye West Accepts Webby Award With Shortest Acceptance Speech of His Career

blame it on Meka May 17, 2016
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Last night, the Webby Awards — now in its 20th year — went down, with the likes of Jessica Alba, Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter and the #BlackLivesMatter movement among the winners. Last week, the committee announced that Kanye West would be their Artist Of The Year, and he was asked to give an acceptance speech.

However, as per the Webby norm, winners are limited to their standard five word speech. For someone like Kanye, that’s… a little bit difficult given his legendary (infamous?) penchant for long, stream-of-consciousness quips (rants?). So, via video, here goes:

That wasn’t so bad, right?