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16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.
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16 years ago today, Ye took the stage at the 2010 BET Awards after 9 months of silence👇 After the Taylor Swift moment at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Ye had largely disappeared from public life, cancelling his Fame Kills tour with Lady Gaga and retreating into a self imposed exile in Hawaii where he had quietly begun recording what would become ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ Nobody knew what version of Ye was about to show up to the BETs. When the awards began the lights went down and a volcano rose from the floor of the Shrine Auditorium, with Ye emerging from the top. He was draped in two massive pieces of ancient Egyptian inspired jewelry, a Horus chain and twin pyramid ring Ye opened the show with “Power.” The song had only been out for a matter of weeks and the album it was teasing, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, was still five months from dropping. What made this moment so significant was the context around it. Ye had been out of the public eye for months outside of a few interviews. This was his first major award show since the 2009 VMAs He said no words before the performance and no words after. He just walked back on stage like he never left.

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