Matt Lauer Stands by Kanye West Interview, Rapper Still Fuming
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The other day, Kanye West took to Twitter to say that Matt Lauer had ambushed him during an interview for The Today Show, trying to force certain answers out of him and being overall disrespectful.
The Today Show clip is below and, as you can see, Lauer stands by the interview, saying there was nothing out of place of how he conducted it and even suggesting that Kanye’s reaction was nothing short of pointless exaggeration.
As we also noted in the previous article, Kanye was on the show to address an older controversy when, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he said President Bush “doesn’t care about black people,” meaning, he was a racist.
In a recent interview, Bush called Kanye’s remarks an all-time low in his presidency, one that was marked, aside from Katrina, by the 9/11 attacks, the Iraq situation and financial problems.
Kanye’s appearance on The Today was meant to be his response and apology to Bush because, shortly after calling him a racist, he too got to see how hurtful it was to be pegged as such.
Lauer, in an attempt to explain everything better for the viewers at home, told Kanye that he must have been referring to how people said his interruption of Taylor Swift at the VMAs 2009 was on racial grounds.
A video of the much-mediated interruption also played, which is when Kanye took offense, saying “Yo, how am I supposed to talk when you’re playing that?”
At the end of the clip below, Lauer explains that playing videos of incidents he’s talking about with his guests is standard procedure on the show, meant to bring everybody in the loop about what they’re talking about.
He then announces that Kanye would be performing live on the show on November 26 – thus prompting a new series of angry tweets from the rapper, who disagrees with Lauer on both counts: one, playing the video was rude and, two, he won’t be performing.
“I’m not performing on the Today Show for obvious reasons. I’m so happy the world got to see just a small piece of ‘the set up’,” Kanye tweets.
“I blatantly said I’m not performing on a tweet and to everyone around me and the next day they still announced a performance. ... the idea that I [am] such an [expletive]... ‘cause when I don’t perform oh noooow I’m the one that’s crazy or a jerk!” the rapper says.
“If I hadn’t tweeted about how they set me up at the show they would have never played the extra footage that displayed how disrespectful...” Kanye also says.
Below is a video of the interview that has caused such a storm online with Kanye West and his tweets. See for yourself and judge who is right and who isn’t.
Oh MY GOD!!! Let me get this right? JUST BECAUSE THIS LOUD-MOUTHED, RUDE, Little boy can manage to spill out some 4 to 5 (maybe even 6 letter'd words) NOW his opinion on WORLD AFFAIRS mean ANYTHING to the rest of us!!! PLEASE. Explain to me, (I BEG OF YOU)!!! The connection here with this guy and world politics... I am so SICK AND TIRED of watching these Hollywood rejects express their "self-proclaimed" opinions on any media format that will print it!!! This "Star" (fading) will say and do anything to regain the spotlight... Good Lord people, a lot of them go from one rehab center to another...one relationship after the other, on and on...DO WE REALLY VALUE their political views??? These people sing, I get it...SO please explain to me why their input on important issues matters? As for MR. West here, this one is so hung-up on his self I believe he ACTUALLY feels people value and listen to anything he spews out!!! Come on MATT L. You mean to tell us this is the best you can do for an interview??? The shape this country is in and yet, THIS WAS THE BEST YOU COULD COME UP WITH??? (HINT) A nice story about the "Day in the Life" of the Dung-Beetle, Fascinating!!!
Comment #1.1 by: Captain D on 08 Dec 2011, 20:56 GMT
Kanye West is just a spoiled brat in adult clothes. He seems to think that he is the center of attention 24/7/365. Didn't anyone ever discipline him when he was growing up. I mean discipline, not "physical correction". He has been rude, rude, rude. Rarely do I watch NBC anymore but happened to catch the interview. Lauer was appropriate in every way. Didn't see what was going on that Kanye kept addressing to someone to his left. It seemed that he didn't like what was going on -if anything. Too bad he has such an attitude - so arrogant.
I am not siding with Kanye West regarding his past comments but, I did appreciate that he was trying to go slow and choose his words carefully. I would find it hard to concentrate/speak to if someone was running a tape. I also think he's likely embarrassed about the Taylor Swift incident and that added to his anger.
I believe that there is no such thing a reverse discrimination......People wake up! It is discrimination pure and simple. If you don't like how you or others are treated I believe you should stand up, be proud of who you are, and fight for your rights of equality. DO NOT turn things around and do unto others the injustices that have been done unto you. How does 2 wrongs equal a right.
It wasn't Bush that brought the race issue to the table during the Katrina crisis it was Kanye. The fact that our emergency systems were overwhelmed during that time in history had nothing to do with race. If a huge tragety happened in Utah where the majority is white could we blame Obama? I think NOT.
Trash comes in all colors, races, genders, sizes, religions, orientations etc......
Good honest people come in all colors, races, genders, sizes, religions, orientations etc....
Kanye, I think you need to shack up with OSCAR THE GROUCH from Sesame Street
Comment #5 by: OC Monster on 12 Nov 2010, 13:02 UTC
I agree with Kanye. Matt did the same thing to President Bush during his interview. West agreed to the interview to apologize to Bush. Instead he gets set up. President Bush was there to promote his book and he gets dragged through the mud. Matt so reminded me of Couric ambushing Sarah Palin. Who do they think they are? If I were famous I would never do an interview for NBC. None of what Matt brought up were secrets. Everybody already knew all of it in both interviews. Matt wanted to make them angry or embarass them. He and Couric make a bad pair.
Comment #7 by: Captain D on 08 Dec 2011, 20:48 UTC
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