Kanye West is pissed that MTV won’t “give a black man a chance” (his words, not mine) by giving him any of their prestigious Moon Man awards. And in a cutting off his nose to spite his face move, Kanye is boycotting the network. The dude is seriously a poor loser.

“Rapper Kanye West has vowed to boycott cable channel MTV after missing out on five awards at the Video Music Awards on Sunday. The ‘Gold Digger’ hitmaker made his hurt feelings known after the event in Las Vegas, hurling abuse at MTV bosses as cameras rolled backstage. He ranted: ‘That’s two years in a row… Give a black man a chance.’

“And he hadn’t calmed down by the time he hit the airwaves on New York radio station Z100 on Monday morning. He even attacked the VMA organisers for exploiting Britney Spears, who opened the show with a disastrous performance of her new single. He told the radio station: ‘They exploited Britney in helping to end her career. When Britney was opening, near the end, I felt so bad for her. I said: “Man, it’s a dirty game. This game will chew you up and spit you out.”’

“He went on to tell Z100 DJ JJ that he felt misled and ‘betrayed’ by MTV bosses, and promised to never work with the network again. West revealed he has already cancelled planned appearances set for this week.

[From Ireland Online]

It’s hard to say if that’s a bad move for Kanye or a bad move for MTV. The network has really been struggling lately and has lost a huge amount of their audience to BET and the internet. Though they were certainly the forerunners in television music, they’ve focused far too much on reality programming and not enough on airing music videos. Losing another popular artist couldn’t help things for MTV – the question is whether it can help things for Kanye. Though he could stand to be taken down a peg. I think he’s around 6 feet tall – five and a half of that is actually Kanye, the other six inches are his ego. If this move ends up being a mistake, maybe it’ll humble him… but likely just piss him off even more.

Kanye was also annoyed with Pamela Anderson, even though they were friends, and she co-starred in his video for “Touch the Sky.”

“The rapper also had harsh words for his one-time video co-star Pamela Anderson, who he felt ‘disrespected’ him as she introduced his VMA performance.

“The former Baywatch babe said: ‘One of the best times I’ve ever had was making out with the next performer in the middle of the desert.’

“‘I think I had my tongue so far down his throat I could taste his fiancée - and I might need a repeat performance later tonight.’

“West was far from amused: “I’m engaged, and I feel like it’s disrespectful to my relationship.’”

[From Ireland Online]

I’m not going to say that was the smartest joke I’ve ever head, but it was way too smart for me to believe that Pamela Anderson wrote it. I’m sure some MTV writer thought he was being clever, and Anderson just read it off the teleprompter. Kanye is one of those guys that just wants to be mad at people. He can always find someone to have a beef with. I agree with some of our commenters who said they couldn’t see what was so special about Kanye. Apart from spending a lot of money on is music videos, I don’t see what sets him apart from most other rappers. He doesn’t seem particularly innovative – or at least not enough so to justify his ego.

Update: Here’s a video from “The Insider” of Kanye’s expletive-laced tantrum. It’s even worse to hear it than to read it. He seems slightly off his rocker.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Kanye at the VMAs in Las Vegas. Images thanks to PR Photos.