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Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood take a dig at Kanye West during the 43rd annual CMA Awards, Nashville, Nov. 11, 2009WireImageAccess Hollywood
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country music took a couple of swipes at Kanye West's infamous September interruption of Taylor Swift at the MTV VMAs at Wednesday night's CMA Awards in Nashville.
Following Taylor Swift's opening number - a performance of "Forever & Always," which included a cameo by Access Hollywood's Nancy O'Dell -- CMA co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley took the stage and ripped the rapper.
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Singing the country standard "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys," the hosts took a swipe at the rapper, who stormed the VMA stage during Taylor Swift's Best Female Video acceptance speech to champion Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" video.
"Mamas don't let your babies grow up to Kanye," they sang. "Let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks, 'cause cowboys have manners, they don't interrupt."
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As Brad and Carrie's opening monologue continued, Brad noted their show was full of audience members who appreciate and respect each other.
That's what I love about the CMA Awards -- we get along on this show. We're like one big slightly dysfunctional family. We're like George Straight Plus 8," Brad said.
And Kanye's stage interruption was referenced again later on in the show.
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An hour and a half into the event, Carrie told Brad that "Welcome To The Future" was "one of my favorite videos of all time."
As Brad began to thank his video team, 88-year-old country legend Little Jimmy Dickens walked out on stage to stop the speech.
"Excuse me! Excuse me sir... I'll let you finish later. Now Brad Paisley, I know you had a nice video and all that, but Taylor Swift made the best video of all time," Little Jimmy said as the camera panned to Taylor, cracking up in the audience. "You go girl."
Later, as Taylor Swift accepted the award for Best Female Vocalist, Taylor herself made a barb at Kanye's expense.
"I want to thank every single person in this room tonight for not running up on this stage during this speech," she said. "Thank you."
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LuckygohappyWho cares about the whole Kanye/Taylor thing? What upsets me about this article is that Yahoo can't spell the name of someone who's had more #1 hits than anyone else in country music... his name is George STRAIT!!!report abuseposted February 2, 2010 8:45 AM PST
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1ROSEkanye west is a wimpy kiddy baby whinerreport abuseposted January 6, 2010 1:34 AM PST
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1ROSEit was so retarded what he did to herreport abuseposted January 6, 2010 1:22 AM PST
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1ROSEit was so retarded what he did to herreport abuseposted January 6, 2010 1:22 AM PST
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Jamie4garthcarrieNo a fence but the Female Vocalist should have gone to Carrie Underwood. That's all I'm saying.report abuseposted November 17, 2009 11:24 PM PST
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taylor swift fan 2328sharron, that was her first vma, kanye dint hav to go up cuz he thought beyonce deserved it (btw luv u taylor) that was her first vma and she beat out pink katy perry kelly clarkson and beyonce... thats not something to look back on for 30 years to wat happened when she won that vma... taylor deserves evry award she gets luv u!!!!!!!!!report abuseposted November 17, 2009 10:38 PM PST
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taylor swift fan 2328haha lol that was funny :) and when carrie underwood said "brad, i don't feel so well.. can u feel me and tell me if im hot?" and then he looks out into the audience and sees his wife "hi honey" then he points "watz that" and then he feels her head "ya shes def. hot" and then shes sang "i hope its not that watreport abuseposted November 17, 2009 10:32 PM PST
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ylime1960i Think it is perfectly fine what they said. He did something that wasn't very nice at ALL !report abuseposted November 13, 2009 8:55 PM PST
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ylime1960i Think it is perfectly fine what they said. He did something that wasn't very nice at ALL !report abuseposted November 13, 2009 8:55 PM PST
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AnerisGet a life...Kanye is not a bad guy its not like he didnt appologize...what he had to kiss her ass to...thats why the world ending and in bad shape because ppl linger on hate so much...all these ppl wanting to take shots at kanye need to grow up they are no better then him if they did that...idiotsreport abuseposted November 13, 2009 12:43 AM PST
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