It should have been Beyonce's big night on Sunday as she finally scooped the Album of the Year Grammy for her Cowboy Carter album. And whilst he has been publicly fighting for her to win all the industry awards over the past decade, Kanye West managed to steal Bey's thunder with his headline-grabbing stunt at the Los Angeles ceremony. The rapper took over the red carpet when his wife Bianca Censori, under the leer of Kanye, shamelessly stripped to a completely sheer dress in front of the world's cameras.

The controversial couple didn't even make it inside the Crypto.com arena where Beyonce should have been commanding spotlight thanks to her major win, which came 12 months after her husband Jay-Z had an epic public tantrum about her being overlooked by the Recording Academy. Kanye also has history with publicly championing Beyonce, which has often gone hand in hand with tirades against the Grammys. In 2020 he sparked outrage in the industry by posting a video on social media that appeared to show him urinating on an award in protest.

It should have been Beyonce 's big night on Sunday as she finally scooped the Album of the Year Grammy but Kanye West managed to steal her thunder with his stunt at the LA ceremony. Beyonce should have been commanding spotlight thanks to her major win, which came 12 months after her husband Jay-Z had an epic public tantrum about her being overlooked by the Recording Academy. In 2015 after Beck won the Album Of The Year prize, Kanye demanded that the musician give the award to Beyonce instead, echoing his infamous moment with Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Kanye stormed the stage whilst Beck was at the podium and later launched into a scathing attack backstage. Speaking to his then sister-in-law Khloe Kardashian, who was reporting for E!, Kanye declared 'We ain't gonna play with them no more. Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé.'. He continued: 'At this point - we're tired of it because what happens is, you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental music. You are disrespectful to inspiration.'.

Kanye has been outspoken against the Grammy voters for 20 years. Back in 2005, even before that year's nominations were announced, he declared he had to win album of the year for his second LP Late Registration. 'I don't care if I jumped up and down right now on the couch like Tom Cruise,' he told MTV News at the time. 'I don't care how much I stunt — you can never take away from the amount of work I put into it.' He ended up losing the prize to U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.

Fast forward to 2016 and Kanye was slammed for a series of tweets again slamming the Grammy awarding system for being 'completely out of touch.'. He later said; 'You like your black people a certain way also. You wouldn't have Future perform and that man owned the clubs last summer.'. Kanye has history with publicly championing Beyonce, which has often gone hand in hand with tirades against the Grammys. In 2015 after Beck won Album Of The Year, he stormed the stage and demanded that the musician give the award to Beyonce instead.

Kanye stormed the stage whilst Beck was at the podium and later launched into a scathing attack backstage with his then-wife Kim Kardashian by his side. In 2020 he sparked outrage in the industry for posting a video on social media that showed a Grammy apparently being defiled in a toilet. Kanye also appeared to threaten a boycott, writing; 'If I'm not at the show next year then there is no show.'. In 2020 he sparked outrage in the industry for posting a video on social media that showed a Grammy apparently being defiled in a toilet.

'How vile and disrespectful,' Grammy award winning songwriter Diane Warrensaid at the time. Despite his years of outbursts, the Grammys have largely remained loyal to Kanye, presenting him with 24 gongs over the years, the joint 11th-most of all time and most awarded for any hip-hop artist along with Jay-Z. In 2021 the committee decided at a meeting just 24 hours before that year's nominees were announced that the top categories should expand to 10 nominees from eight.

The last-minute move added Kanye's name into the mix, but he stil wasn't satisfied. Despite his years of outbursts, the Grammys have largely remained loyal to Kanye, presenting him with 24 gongs over the years, the joint 11th-most of all time (pictured in 2005). Kanye's friendship with both Beyonce and Jay Z has become strained over the years, whilst Beyonce has recently got closer with his nemesis Taylor Swift (Beyonce, Jay, Kanye and Kim Kardashian pictured in 2012).

A year later and Kanye was pulled from the 2022 Grammys performance lineup due to his 'concerning online behavior.'. At the time Kanye was under fire for his repeated public outbursts aimed at his estranged wife Kim Kardashian and her new boyfriend Pete Davidson. He also shared an Instagram post taunting Grammys host Trevor Noah with a racial slur that resulted in him being banned from Instagram for 24 hours.