Top 10 Outrageous Kanye West Moments

Interrupting country star Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards was just what you might have expected from Kanye West. TIME looks back at the famously cocky rapper's most out-there stunts

At Least It Wasn't Malcolm Xbox

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In early 2009, Kanye West designed a high-top sneaker for luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton, and to promote it, he announced he would change his name to Martin Louis the King Jr. West never explained what the inspirational civil-rights leader had to do with a line of brightly colored, $800-$1,140 footwear, and luckily the nickname didn't stick. So far, no one has officially called the rapper anything but Kanye.

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