Kanye West: Not Happy With MTV
November 12th 2006 21:24
Kanye West
"Officially, Kanye West was named best hip-hop artist at Thursday night's MTV Europe Music Awards held in Copenhagen.
But unofficially, he was also named biggest sore loser.
The six-time Grammy-winning rapper, 29, was apparently so disgruntled at not winning best video for ‘Touch The Sky’ – the prize went to Parisian duo Justice vs. Simian for ‘We Are Your Friends’ – that he crashed the stage as the award was being handed out.
In a profanity-laced tirade, West said he should have won the prize, because his video ‘cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it,’ and, he added, ‘I was jumping across canyons.’
‘If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility,’ West said, according to the Associated Press. Later, he said, ‘I had the best video. 'Touch the Sky' was a great moment in TV.’
This wasn't West's first public outburst:
• As this year's Grammys approached, he appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone wearing a crown of thorns, and later said he'd ‘really have a problem’ if he didn't win album of the year for Late Registration. (He lost to U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.)
• During last year's NBC celebrity telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims, he said on the live broadcast, ‘George Bush doesn't care about black people.’ He also attacked the news media, saying: ‘If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food.’
• After losing the favorite breakthrough artist award to Gretchen Wilson at the 2004 American Music Awards, West told reporters, ‘I was robbed. ... I was the best new artist this year,’ and ‘I got 10 Grammy nominations, and won three – even if I should have won all 10.’"
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And it was pretty bleak with crowd attendance as people came late.
Plus the sound carried in different places. I would be annoyed if I was him.
The funniest thing was he kept going on about "how you can reach your dreams" like he some kind of Anthony Robbins.
I thought the 'Touch the Sky' clip was crap.. but thats just me. The song is great though, love Curtis.
He is a good performer.. but has let stardom go to his head yeah. Like just because he's famous.. he automatically has some kind of authority.
Would you like to be famous? I think it would be hard.