ANGRY rap lord KANYE WEST reckons the MTV Awards were FIXED.

The grumpy superstar was upset with the choice of winners at the big shows in both America and the UK this year.

And he claims he only won Ultimate Urban at the European bash in Liverpool last week because he turned up.

He said: “BRITNEY SPEARS over RIHANNA? Are you serious?

“I won nothing last year and I’d brought out Stronger.

“Then this year, just because I was there, I won best urban act. This was L’IL WAYNE’s year.”

Kanye’s new album — out on November 24 — is a huge departure from his hip-hop roots with him singing rather than rapping throughout the collection.

He has laid his soul completely bare on the CD and kept up that theme when introducing it at the exclusive album playback held on Tuesday night.

It was just a year and a day after the death of his his mother, Donda’s.

She died at just 58 as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure. Kanye revealed he feels guilty about the tragedy.

His fragile state-of-mind — from that loss and also his split with his fiancée, fashion designer ALEXIS PHIFER — is obvious in the reflective feel to the album. He wrote the track Coldest Winter about mum Donda’s passing.

Kanye revealed: “I moved to California, so did my mum.

“I feel my mum moved to California and did stuff that she wouldn’t have done if she was still in Chicago.

“This album was therapeutic — it’s lonely at the top.”

Kanye has changed his style in an attempt to challenge the likes of legends PAUL McCARTNEY and JIMI HENDRIX — who he describes as “those artists in black and white photos.”

He admitted he “hated” his 2005 smash Gold Digger — and the new material is more PHIL COLLINS than rap.

Phil’s fingerprints are on a lot of the good pop music that’s coming out at the moment.