Six years after having her spotlight stolen by Kanye West, Taylor Swift took to the stage at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards to present the rapper with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
“I’ma let you finish, but Kanye West has had one of the greatest careers of all time,” the pop star said before presenting the award to West with a long hug. She could be seen in the crowd standing next to West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, for the remainder of the speech.
After taking several minutes to bask in the cheers from the crowd, West offered a mea culpa for taking the microphone from Swift in 2009, took politics and awards shows to task, and announced his plan to run for president in 2020 in a long, rambling acceptance speech.