With all the noise surrounding Kanye West’s public mental-health spiral, you may have missed the rapper’s allegation that the MTV Video Music Awards are rigged — despite the network’s long assertion that fans choose the winners.
“Beyoncé, I was hurt, because I heard that you said you wouldn’t perform unless you won Video of the Year over me,” West said of the 2016 VMAs during a manic onstage rant at his abbreviated Saturday concert in Sacramento, California.
Beyonce indeed won for her polarizing sensation “Formation” at the August ceremony, over West for his video “Famous.” West directly implied that the network handed her its highest honor to get her to show up — where she performed a staggering 14-minute set that became the most talked-about moment of the telecast.
MTV has long maintained an open fan voting process run through its official website, which West challenged in his weekend monologue.
TheWrap has also confirmed that the VMAs engages a body of industry professionals who vote on below-the-line categories like Best Art Direction, Best Choreography and Best Cinematography.
“It’s an online voting system that’s similar to voting for the Emmys or the DGA Awards,” one member of the VMA industry group told TheWrap, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
“But only for the professional categories. The larger categories have always been a mystery to me,” the individual added.
Numerous MTV spokespeople would not respond to requests for comment.
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