Britney Spears’ on-camera meltdown at the MTV Video Music Awards couldn’t hold a candle to the drama going on backstage, and yesterday an irate Kanye West vowed he’d never work with the music network again.West, who threw a tantrum at the show after being blanked in all five categories he was nominated for, told New York radio station Z100 that he’s cancelled all his upcoming “TRL” appearances to promote his new CD “Graduation.”
“That’s two years in a row, man . . . give a black man a chance,” said West. “I’m trying hard man, I have the No. 1 record, man.”
West said he was also peeved that MTV didn’t allow him to perform on the main stage, instead he was relegated to a suite.
“For me, MTV made it seem like performing on the main stage was a bad thing, and the suites were just so great,” he said. “It was my dream when I made ‘Stronger’ to open up the VMAs with a real power performance.”
West also blasted the music channel for letting Tinseltown trainwreck Britney Spears open the show.
“They exploited Britney in helping to end her career,” he said. “This game will chew you up and spit you out.”
For her part, Spears was so distraught over her embarrassing performance she broke down in tears backstage. According to Us magazine, the trashtastic pop tart was “crying badly.”
“She’s devastated. She was really nervous and knows she screwed up,” a source told Us.
Another spy dished to People.com that Spears’ lip-synching flubs and dance screw-ups were the result of terrible nerves.
“She was just plain nervous because of all the hype . . . . She just got out there and froze.”
And that wasn’t the only VMA fallout.
Police in Las Vegas cited Kid Rock, the former husband of actress Pamela Anderson, for suspicion of battery after a backstage scuffle with her other ex, Tommy Lee. The two men got into a fight while singer Alicia Keys was performing during the two-hour show Sunday.
While it’s unclear why the brawl broke out, observers speculated that Lee’s man-handling of Anderson may have sent Rock over the edge. Anderson was married to Rock for four months last year. She and Lee, who have two sons together, were wed for three years.
Las Vegas police said that Rock, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, was cited for misdemeanor battery after investigators determined from interviews with both men and eyewitness accounts that he was the instigator.
“He was deemed to be the primary aggressor,” said police spokesman Bill Castle.
According to an audience member, the aging rockers “had each other at the necks, they were practically strangling each other.”
Another eyewitness spotted the Motley Crue drummer being escorted out of the venue and into the main casino “screaming the f-word over and over again.”
MTV posted a short video clip of the altercation, showing Rock and Lee being pulled apart by security guards as they shouted at one another. But what the two men said was inaudible.
Lee insisted to “The Insider” he was “trying to be the bigger man,” when the Detroit rocker approached him and socked him in the jaw.
“I was about to put Kid in the emergency room when security grabbed me,” the 44-year-old boasted. “They said, “If you move, we will break your arms.’ ”
The near-brawl did provide a few extra laughs during the award show when presenter Jamie Foxx called on the boys to “stop all of this white-on-white crime.”
“Tommy Lee and Kid Rock fighting like black folks - it’s hilarious,” he said. “Who won? I was in the bathroom. Pamela Anderson has got a hard choice to make.”
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