Hype is building around this year’s MTV Video Music Awards and now not only do we know who is opening the show (Britney) we also now know who will be closing the event.

Despite claiming that he would never return to the VMAs last year, Kanye West will return this year with the final performance of the evening.

Remember the fit he threw last year?  Here’s a refresher if you don’t.

According to several sources backstage at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards — and a report published late Sunday night by The Associated Press — West lost it again, this time because his performance of “Stronger” took place in the Palms’ Hugh Hefner Sky Villa and not on the main stage.

“Kanye was watching the closing performance [a medley featuring Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and Nelly Furtado] on a closed-circuit monitor, and he started getting upset,” a source who was backstage told MTV News. “He started asking anyone who’d listen why he wasn’t allowed to perform on the main stage. ‘Why did I perform in just a suite?’ he was saying. ‘Justin’s my boy, but even he gets to perform in both a suite and on the main stage? Something’s wrong here.’ ”

According to the AP, West was also upset about being shut out of all five categories in which he was nominated. He reportedly yelled, “That’s two years in a row, man … I’m trying hard, man, I have the … #1 record, man.”

AP also reported that West claimed he would “never return to MTV.”

For the rest of the story, which includes new performer and presenter announcements, check out MTVs site.