50 Cent Defends Britney; Attacks Kanye West

50 Cent believes Kanye is just jealous of all the attention Britney has been receiving.

Rapper 50 Cent is attacking Kanye West for criticizing Britney Spears' lackluster performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, insisting the hip-hop star should not take out his anger on the troubled singer.

Kanye recently slammed MTV's decision to let Spears open Sunday's awards ceremony instead of himself, claiming she was "not ready" to make her pop comeback.

But 50 Cent believes Kanye is just jealous of all the attention Spears has been receiving.

He tells Ryan Seacrest: "(West) was upset, he's not used to being recognized. Period.

"Kanye expressed that he felt that Britney shouldn't be actually opening the show - almost like he forgot that Britney Spears sold 50 million records. She did.

"He is not thinking about her full body of work. She deserved to headline the show better than anybody else that was on it - even in the state that she is in."