The “Imma let you finish” meme, which depicts rapper Kanye West interrupting quite literally anything and everything, originated from an incident at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, where West stormed on stage and interrupted singer Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video. West exclaimed “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you. Imma let you finish but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time…one of the best videos of all time!”
The video is shown below:
Shortly after the show, a video arose on the internet, dubbing the audio of West’s interruption into a video of Barack Obama being interrupted by Representative Joe Wilson:
This set off an outburst of “Imma let you finish” videos, and eventually transformed into a photoshopped meme. West has been pictured interrupting practically everything, from famous people to inanimate objects to video game characters, following the format of “Yo (person/object), I’m really happy for you. Imma let you finish but (other person/object) had one of the best (somethings) of all time!” Some examples follow:
The graph below depicts the spike in search results matching “Kanye West” and “Taylor Swift”
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