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VMAs 2015: Kim Kardashian Got Caught in the Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift Feud

Bad timing for an “Imma let you finish” joke

Jul 22, 2015 11:20 GMT  ·  By
Kim Kardashian makes badly-timed joke during Nicki Minaj vs. Taylor Swift Twitter spat
   Kim Kardashian makes badly-timed joke during Nicki Minaj vs. Taylor Swift Twitter spat

Nicki Minaj is very upset that neither “Anaconda” nor “Feeling Myself” was nominated for Video of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards 2015, scheduled to take place on August 30. She’s so upset that she went off on Twitter about how the white media is biased against black entertainers and would not give them the recognition they deserve.

Taylor Swift, whose “Bad Blood” video has the most nominations at the gala, including for the Video of the Year category, took this as a personal attack and urged Nicki to come up on stage with her if she wins, as a sign that she’s above the pettiness of these awards galas.

And smack in the middle, there’s Kim Kardashian.

An “Imma let you finish” joke that could have used better timing

The photo attached to this article was posted with the caption “Imma let you finish but…” just as the Nicki vs. Taylor spat was still happening on Twitter.

The photo of Kim in her panties is from her latest Vogue Spain shoot, the one that promises to show us a side of the reality star (no makeup, no secrets, no censorship) we’ve not seen before. She’s reaching to answer her cell phone, while gesturing as if to silence someone speaking to her, presumably the person with the camera, who, in this case, identifies with the viewer.

The moment she posted it, it was assumed that she was taking a part in the Twitter spat and siding with Nicki, thus obviously shading Taylor.

Kim has deleted the photo since, saying she wasn’t shading anyone: she was just posting photos and a strange coincidence made it so that this happened while Taylor and Nicki were having words.

Kanye West’s infamous “Imma let you finish” moment

To better understand the connection many made, you have to go back to the 2009 edition of the VMAs, when Taylor won Video of the Year and Kanye interrupted her moment by saying “Imma let you finish but… Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!”

The interruption nearly cost Kanye his career, became a meme and is still haunting him to this day, even though he and Taylor have long made peace over it.

As it happens, Kim is Kanye’s wife as of May last year, so when she used his infamous “tagline” as caption for her photo, people assumed she was saying it to Taylor as well.

But Kim says that shading people on social media like this is not something she would do. So that’s that.