The rapper was barely visible as he was veiled in plumes of smoke amid dark lighting, reported Daily Mirror.
And secondly his track "All Day" had to be bleeped out continually - leaving up to 15 seconds of silence at a time for viewers watching at home.
Twitter was abuzz with tweets over West's performance.
Disappointed over the repeated bleepings, a viewer tweeted: "What's wrong with my TV? Sound kept dropping during @kanyewest's performance! Umm, wait... #BBMAs."
Expressing discontent over the abrupt end, another one tweeted, "What's the point of Kanye West performance. Totally not happy with the end of the 2015 Billboard Awards.
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