Nov 12, 2010 08:51 GMT  ·  By

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.