Kanye West is furious that he didn’t take home any Moonmen at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.

“He told MTV he is really disrespected and doesn’t know if he’ll do the show again,” a source tells Usmagazine.com. “He left the show furious. That’s probably why he took off right away.”

According to the Associated Press, the 30-year-old rapper threw a tantrum in front of media and crew backstage as the show was ending. While waiting for an elevator in a crowded hallway, he began yelling about losing all five categories for which he was nominated.

“That’s two years in a row, man … give a black man a chance,” West said, stomping around his entourage. “I’m trying hard, man, I have the … number one record, man.”

West was up for Male Artist of the Year, as well as Quadruple Threat of the Year, awards which went to Justin Timberlake. His video “Stronger,” was nominated for Video of the Year, a prize which later went to Rihanna for “Umbrella,”

“Stronger” also lost out on Best Direction to Timberlake’s “What Goes Around…Comes Around.” The song also lost “Best Editing” honors to Gnarls Barkley’s “Smiley Faces.”

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Kanye West and 50 Cent have taken their publicity war to the pages of Rolling Stone.

With both having albums dropping on September 11, these two marketing geniuses were more than happy to pose and heat up the the greatest debate of our time: Who will be the next “king of hip hop”?

According to the editor’s note, Kanye wants everyone to know that this photo is legit. “I feel like it should say, This is not photoshopped,” he says. “This is real. It’s a moment.”

As for 50? “From a hip-hop perspective, it’s the biggest event possible.”

Team Kanye or Team 50?  (I personally love Kanye…)

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Kanye West, who’s slated to perform in Al Gore’s Live Earth extravaganza touting global warming, needs to learn about shrinking his own carbon footprint. The hip-hop artist has asked a restaurant in Cardiff, Wales, to fly a chef and a meal across the Atlantic to a Manhattan business meeting tomorrow for about $4,000, plus travel and accommodations for the chef.

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$4000 to fly a meal to him?? That’s just dumb.