Kanye West is “painting” a new picture on MTV on Thursday, debuting a video he hopes will offer fans a better image of himself than the one he made at the network's award show last year when he interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech. “It's not a video...it's a painting,” the rapper said of his new video, called “Power”, which aired Thursday night. At MTV's Video Music Awards in September 2009, West unexpectedly took to the stage of the live televised broadcast when country singer Swift won best female pop video. West grabbed the microphone from Swift's hands and declared that R&B singer Beyonce should have won instead. MTV never officially banned Kanye West from their studios after last fall's VMA Awards, and the network continued to play his old videos. But since then, he has not debuted any new work on MTV. Also on Thursday, MTV premiered the new music video for Eminem and Rihanna's single “Love The Way You Lie,” which airs two hours before Kanye's. The two debuts follow a series of similar premiere videos on MTV earlier this year, from Justin Bieber's “Never Let Go” and Mike Posner's “Cooler Than Me” to Muse's “Resistance” and Maroon 5's “Misery”.
