Kanye West's Outbursts: The History

Add Sunday night's outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards to Kanye West's history of tirades at awards ceremonies.

West hijacked best female video winner Taylor Swift's speech to argue that Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" was more deserving of the award.

West apologized twice for his comments . But this isn't the first time West has made his opinions well-known.

At the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, West said he would "never return to MTV" after Britney Spears was chosen to open the show and perform on the main stage. Instead West performed his single "Stronger" at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. Sources told MTV that West said, "Why did I perform in just a suite? Justin [Timberlake]'s my boy, but even he gets to perform in both a suite and on the main stage? Something's wrong here.'"

Then after not winning any of the awards in the five categories in which he was nominated, West reportedly said backstage , "That's two years in a row, man … give a black man a chance. I'm trying hard man, I have the … No. 1 record, man."

The day after the show, West went on New York radio station Z100 to explain himself. "I wasn't mad that I just didn't win any awards. For me, [MTV] made it seem like performing on the main stage was a bad thing, and the suites were just so great. It was my dream when I made 'Stronger' to open up the VMAs with a real power performance."

In 2006 West grabbed the mic from Justice vs. Simian at the MTV Europe Music Awards after the duo won the Best Video Award for "We Are Your Friends" over his "Touch the Sky." West argued that his video "cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it. … I was jumping across canyons. … If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility."

He would later blame his outburst on drinking before the show . "I had a little sippy sippy," he said.

At a telethon to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, West appeared on camera with comic Mike Meyers. But at one point, West stopped following the teleprompter . "Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way. And they've given them permission to go down and shoot us....George Bush doesn't care about black people."

West talked to ABC's Nightline in 2007 about his comments on the Katrina telethon, saying that the incident "changed his life for the better. I think people understood me a little more. They understood, like, this guy is like … has a little baby Tourettes … maybe not quite diagnosed, but the truth just comes out like accidentally."

The earliest outburst came in 2004 at the American Music Awards in which West lost the Best New Artist award to Gretchen Wilson and left the show in a huff. Backstage he told reporters , "I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refused to give any politically correct bull----ass comment. ... I was the Best New Artist this year." He went on to apologize to Wilson for being "ignorant."

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