It seems Kanye West and MTV have had a rocky relationship from the start. Kanye has always felt like MTV was trying to hide their love for one another; keeping everything under wraps. Sure, all of MTV’s close friends (the viewers) knew about their love for Kanye but when it came time to show off Kanye to the professional friends at the annual MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) there was no love. Year after year, Kanye West has felt unappreciated and deserving of recognition. And year after year, MTV stiffed Kanye by not recognizing him via the pop culture honor of the VMAs. So Kanye made his didain for MTV’s spite known to any and everyone who cared to listen. Like with anyone, you can see how this type of treatment can be lead to a rather complicated relationship. With the latest nominations for MTV’s 2010 VMAs (for which Kanye isn’t nominated for anything) and Kanye’s shenanigans at last year’s bash, why is MTV showing Kanye love now with tonight’s ‘Power’ special?
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In 2005, Kanye’s first year in the VMAs, he didn’t win anything. And then, again, in 2006 there was nothing. While Kanye considerably took his first year’s loss like a champion, he couldn’t hold back a second time around. So in 2006 at the MTV Europe Awards (the Euro version of the VMAs), Kanye West interrupted Justice and Simian during their acceptance speech for ‘We Are All Friends‘. How’s that for irony? Kanye proclaimed that the awards show would lose credibility because of his loss, after all his video for ‘Touch The Sky‘ cost 1 million dollars had Pamela Anderson in it. In all fairness, ‘Touch The Sky’ was a really great video (watch it below) but it also was disrespectful to interrupt the gentlemen who actually won the award.
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The more blatant lack of respect for Kanye West began in 2007. Kanye had just released Graduation, an album that was very huge for music that year. Something that was also huge for music that year though was Britney Spears return and MTV decided that she should open up the VMAs that year which were held at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Kanye ended up performing ‘Stronger‘ in a suite rather than on the main stage. He was upset about that; feeling that he deserved the main stage since his record was currently the number one record in the country. In addition, Kanye was nominated for five awards and won none. He caused a bit of a stir backstage over his loss and was quoted as saying ‘That’s two years in a row… give the black man a chance.’ But in al
