Kanye West vs. Matt Lauer & NBC on the “Today” Show (VIDEO)

Thursday, November 11th 2010 | Leave a Comment

Kanye West went IN on Matt Lauer and the “Today” show earlier this week on Twitter, accusing Matt of trying to “force” his answers in his interview, which finally aired this morning. Check out the details, along with the video footage from the interview, below…

In the interview, as Kanye is answering questions and attempting to apologize to George Bush for calling him a racist a couple years back, Lauer prompts producers to run a clip of Bush talking about the incident and says to West:

“Don’t even listen this time. I want you to just look at his face…”

West then snapped back and said:

“I didn’t need you guys to play the tape in order to prompt my emotion to what I’m going to say,” the rapper said, clearly irritated. “I don’t have to do TV stuff, with me. This is reality. This is the real thing going on, you know what I’m saying? I don’t need all the jazz.”

Throughout the remainder of the interview, things didn’t let up as Mr. West also popped off at people on the set asking them to be quiet, and when the show ran another another infamous clip (this time, the Taylor Swift incident) an obviously agitated Yeezy got mad once again and stopped in the middle of what he was saying and asked:

“Yo, how am I supposed to talk if you’re gonna run this thing in the middle while I’m talking?”

We didn’t see anything out of the ordinary with this interview. It just looked like Kanye West was being VERY guarded and extra sensitive. Typical Kanye…

Meanwhile, Kanye is set to perform later this month (Nov 26) on “Today.” We wonder if he and Matt will kiss and make up then, or if they’ll still be “beefing” LOL!

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  • Linda Kline

    Kanye West is an arrogant, self-centered, jerk.

  • cynthia

    The young people today are very opinionated and have a tendency to lack the ability to fully express their emotions in a positive and adult manner. However, I never got the impression that he was apologizing for his comment; rather he was apologizing, if the comment was offensive because he did not have any supportive facts; and rather going strictly on emotions.

    Matt Lauer could have done a better job at prepping Kanye for the interview, or at least made him aware of their intent to show previous clips that may be controversial.

  • Peter Horvath

    Please tell kanye west[not capitalized on purpose] to crawl back under the rock he came out from. He is one of the most racial black people on this earth, from what I have seen ,and heard. We will not be watching your program the day he is on in concert. Call it racisim if you must. but he caused our view.

    Thank you for listening
    Peter Horvath

  • sherri

    Matt Lauer was doing a job, and he does it well…….

  • ucla_alum

    Matt Lauer is a jackass.

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  • http://corvedacosta.com Corve DaCosta

    kanye sucks

  • bo

    narcissist.

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