Kanye West Makes Award Show Even More Tacky

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.

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