Remember the halcyon days of awards-show gatecrashing? Like when Ol’ Dirty Bastard streaked at the 1974 Academy Awards, or when David Niven bum-rushed the Grammys to announce that “Wu-Tang is for the children”? Well, Kanye West apparently never learned how to gracefully interrupt an acceptance speech:
COPENHAGEN — Rap star Kanye West was named best hip hop artist but still came off as a sore loser at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Kanye apparently was so disappointed at not winning for best video that he crashed the stage Thursday in Copenhagen when the award was being presented to Justice and Simian for We Are Your Friends. In a tirade riddled with expletives, Kanye said he should have won the prize for his video Touch The Sky, because it “cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons.”
“If I don’t win, the awards show loses credibility,” Kanye said.
Read those last two sentences back-to-back again; their sincere out-of-touchness is truly wonderful. Anyway, you can watch the footage here, and while it starts out just silly, it quickly descends into the pathetic, especially when you realize that West is just siphoning away airtime from a guy who’s probably not going to get the chance to stand in front a kajillion drunken Europeans again anytime soon (the winning video, by the way, is here).
Total dick move. Kanye, we know you can’t see us, but rest assured that right now we’re giving you the gas face.
MTV Europe Music Awards Highlights [MTV.com]
Kanye West sore loser at MTV Europe Music Awards [AP]
i’m even more shocked that anything from mtv played on my Mac
for being a jackass, he should have to navigate the new mtv site for a few days…
Kanye West makes me long for the days when rappers used to just shoot each other to get attention.
Did Kanye say he was concerned about the credibility of an MTV awards show? Say it ain’t so!
Kanye West doesn’t care about Simians…
But then again, Kanye did those frenchies a favor, the best publicity, after all, is free publicity.
When does it stop being swagger and start being pathological assholitude? At least my man took off those Flintstones-lookin’-ass sunglasses.
I wish Gawker would hurry up and decide on a replacement for “douchebag,” because right now I have no idea what to call Kanye.
mass en gill (its french)
Kanye, you’re talented and all, but this acting like a baby at every awards show shtick is getting plenty old.
Dear Kanye,
It’s like you’re daring me not to like you. Over and over again. It’s starting to work.
xo,
Miss T
He shouldn’t have cheaped out and made the $2 million video instead. He would have won for sure then.
I blame Nia Long.
If he’s not careful, he’s going to end up with “Poor Impulse Control” tattooed across his forehead.
Dear Kanye,
You are not jesus, you are just a guy from chicago who makes good music. Get over yourself, no one cares what you think besides people you give money to. That is all
Love,
The general public
Dear Kanye,
Hear that? That is the sound of me realising you really are an asshole, and that it’s not just ego – and me deleting all my tracks (illegally downladed, what you gonna do about it, bitch?) from my hard drive.
Good luck getting credibility now, Jerk.
Signed,
Me.
Oh, so Kanye is foolish for treating a video award show as a joke? It is a spectacle, entirely. The fools are the ones who get up there and treat it like is serious. C’mon, people. Even the name of this site is like a big clue.
…..Seconded on the lousy MTV site. I had to hunt up the mute button on the lame Target commercial. And urging people who come to your site to “go paperless” is just preaching to the choir.
Kayne West does care about european people…
I love how post interview with the MTVNE people he furthers his articluation of the incident: “agrainst” – and you get paid to spit lines – please.
http://uk.esperanto.mtvi.com/player.jhtml?vid=117372
dear kanye west,
you’re an idiot, and you only sell as many records as you do because white kids who read idolator care about you.
love,
the truth
kanye is a riotous fool! I love him getting all bitchy about an award. Sexy!
but I got to note that his arrogance and big head hasn’t caused almost 3000 american soldiers and 40000+ iraqis to die.
And all this time I was becoming confident that most black people my age learned not to interrupt when others were talking by receiving a good slap across the mouth, as I used to.
This explains why topical talk shows nowadays consist mainly of people shouting each other down to be heard, with nothing accomplished.