The MTV Video Music Awards were pretty tame this year but Kanye West’s finale finished things off with a bang.
The artist performed his new song Runaway and rapped: "Let’s have a toast to the douchebags/ Let’s have a toast to the a**holes.") Many believe he was referring to himself and what he did to Taylor Swift at last year’s Video Music Awards.
For her part, Taylor Swift performed earlier in the show and lyrics in her new song appeared to pardon the rapper.
Kanye West talked to MTV News about the song and the short film that is based on his upcoming album.
He revealed: "It’s the story of a phoenix fallen to Earth, and I make her my girlfriend, and people discriminate against her and eventually she has to burn herself alive and go back to her world. I’ve been feeling the idea of the phoenix. It’s been in my heart for a while. It’s maybe parallel to my career. I threw a Molotov cocktail on my career last year, in a way, and I had to come back as a better person."