Kanye West skips Grammys to hang out in Malibu with Kardashians after ...

By Colette Fahy

PUBLISHED: 10:04 EST, 27 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:08 EST, 27 January 2014

His opus Yeezus was snubbed when nominations for Grammys Record of the Year were announced, garnering just two nods.

While Kanye West was up for Best Rap Song for New Slaves and Best Rap Album for Yeezus, the 36-year-old rapper decided to skip the ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday in favour of a day at the Kardashian/Jenner family Malibu beach house.

As his peers, including close pal Jay Z were busy performing and picking up awards at music's biggest night, Kanye soaked up the sunshine on the balcony of his reality TV star fiancée Kim Kardashian's family getaway.

Dressed down in a white top and jeans, Kanye leaned against the railings as he took a call on his mobile phone.

It was a much more relaxed Kanye than the angry performer who raged against the snub while on the Phoenix leg of his tour last December.

He said: 'They try to trivialise my words and try to make it seem like my importance as a musician is less important than what it is ... Now I'm 36-years-old and I have 21 Grammys. That's the most Grammys of any 36-year-old. Out of all those 21 Grammys, I've never won a Grammy against a white artist.'

[This is untrue as he has picked up awards after going head to head with the likes of Eminem and the Beastie Boys].

'So, when the Grammy nominations come out and Yeezus is the Top one or two albums on every single list, but only gets two nominations from the Grammys. What are they trying to say? Do they think that I wouldn't notice? Do they think that some way that I don't have the power to completely diminish all of their credibility at this moment...People come to me and they congratulate me on those two nominations. F**k those nominations.'

Even if Kanye had forgiven the nominations committee for his perceived snub, perhaps he had a feeling he wasn't going to win either of the awards he was nominated for, with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis beating him to the gongs in both categories.

However, proud papa Kanye, who welcomed baby daughter North with Kim last summer, will no doubt be disappointed that he didn't win a new toy for North.

After all, his frequent collaborator Jay Z picked up two and joked his award for Best/Rap Sung Collaboration for Holy Grail featuring Justin Timberlake was the perfect new 'sippy cup' for his two-year-old Blue Ivy.

He said: 'I want to thank God, I mean, a little bit for this award, but also all the universe for conspiring and for putting that beautiful light of a young lady in my life.'

Holding his golden gramophone statue aloft, he added: 'I want to tell Blue, Look, Daddy got a gold sippy cup for you!'

Jay - who opened the awards with a scintillating performance of Drunk In Love with his wife Beyonce - also won for Best Music Video for Timberlake's Suit & Tie.

Timberlake, who was nominated for seven awards, winning three, also skipped the ceremony.