MY VIDEO COST A MILLION DOLLARS!
After Kanye West's much-publicized rant at the MTV Europe Music Video Awards last week, the Rapper/producer spoke to MTV News on Monday to further explain his spontaneous show of emotion. Kanye was unhappy that he didn't win the award for Best Video for "Touch The Sky," and he jumped onstage and exclaimed that, "[My video] cost a million dollars! Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons and shit!"
Then on Friday, he spoke to MTV News saying, "It was just out of raw emotion. I had a couple of drinks but I was more drunk with adrenaline. I was drinking at the awards show because I feel so at home at awards shows. I live at awards shows! I'm going to five a year. This is what I do it for: I make the music, people like it and I go and collect the awards. I didn't come to lose." He continued, "On one hand, I felt like I should have won. But if anybody watches the show, I was laughing. People don't understand my dry sense of humor. I went up there and said, 'Hell nah, I should have won,' but look how many times I said the word 'love.' I was like, 'Man, I love [the Best Video award winners Justice and Simian]. I don't have nothing against y'all. I never seen y'all video.' To me, in hindsight, however you take it, it's a funny comment. It kinda makes me look like a jerk or whatever, but I don't care."
Though Kanye has not been shy about his desire to win awards in the past, he seemed to change his tune when he spoke to MTV again on Monday. "I'm not going to any more awards shows," he said. "From now on, I got all the awards I need. I'm only making my music for the fans. The streets know, and the fans know, that 'Touch the Sky' was killin' that video... Don't even nominate my shit. Don't play with me. I don't need awards to validate me."
After Kanye West's much-publicized rant at the MTV Europe Music Video Awards last week, the Rapper/producer spoke to MTV News on Monday to further explain his spontaneous show of emotion. Kanye was unhappy that he didn't win the award for Best Video for "Touch The Sky," and he jumped onstage and exclaimed that, "[My video] cost a million dollars! Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons and shit!"
Then on Friday, he spoke to MTV News saying, "It was just out of raw emotion. I had a couple of drinks but I was more drunk with adrenaline. I was drinking at the awards show because I feel so at home at awards shows. I live at awards shows! I'm going to five a year. This is what I do it for: I make the music, people like it and I go and collect the awards. I didn't come to lose." He continued, "On one hand, I felt like I should have won. But if anybody watches the show, I was laughing. People don't understand my dry sense of humor. I went up there and said, 'Hell nah, I should have won,' but look how many times I said the word 'love.' I was like, 'Man, I love [the Best Video award winners Justice and Simian]. I don't have nothing against y'all. I never seen y'all video.' To me, in hindsight, however you take it, it's a funny comment. It kinda makes me look like a jerk or whatever, but I don't care."
Though Kanye has not been shy about his desire to win awards in the past, he seemed to change his tune when he spoke to MTV again on Monday. "I'm not going to any more awards shows," he said. "From now on, I got all the awards I need. I'm only making my music for the fans. The streets know, and the fans know, that 'Touch the Sky' was killin' that video... Don't even nominate my shit. Don't play with me. I don't need awards to validate me."
