Kanye West recently took The Today Show to task for how they handled his interview. Matt Lauer of The Today Show responded to Kanye’s complaints, offering the explanation that they always play the clips in question while the guest is talking. At the end of the segment Lauer reiterates that Kanye would be back to perform on Black Friday despite Kanye stating in the meantime that he would not be back.
Kanye, however, has different ideas. He once again took to Twitter to express his thoughts, announcing that he won’t be performing. Early Friday morning he unleashed a number of tweets explaining the situation, they are collected chronologically below:
“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”..I blatantly said I’m not performing on a tweet and to everyone around me and the next day they still announced a performance…Do you guys see what I’m saying now… this is just a small slice of the day to day bullshit that goes on that helps to precipitate….. the idea that I such an asshole…. cause when I don’t perform oh noooow I’m the one that’s crazy or a jerk!..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…..I want you guys to look at that footage and start to put everything together now. It’s very simple to call someone angry or spoiled or…the one thousand names I’ve been called but it’s harder to try to take a look at what’s really behind the curtain…I’m so happy that my real fans are not as “basic” as the media makes them out to be..Did you see them try to justify playing the audio….. Did you see them try to justify playing the audio…under my interview. Yo sometimes you’re just wrong and it ain’t nothing you can say to justify it believe me I know! Right now I’m not complaining. I’m tweeting because I’m so happy you guys got to see this shit really go down!!!!! : ))))))!!!! FINALLY!!!…..And I don’t hate Matt Lauer… We don’t promote hate. That’s the whole point!!! I promote love and truth!….. we’re all products or our environments … reflections of our surroundings…You know what ….WE OFF THAT!!!… They made a mistake… they thought they could pull it but they couldn’t! That was just a small…..representation of a bigger media play that’s been going on since the beginning of time…All positive energy … all smiles. Much love to Matt and the whole Today Show. I accept ya’ll future apology in advance LOL! I’m in Dubai BTW… Bout to rip down this Abu Dhabi stage later tonight!!!”
For those who missed Ye’s interview on The Today Show, the full video can be watched here.
Not gonna hate on Ye, he felt disrespected and i can see why. We always talk about being ‘real’ part of that is doing what you want/feel at the time regardless of what anyone else thinks now or later. If you were invited to an interview to speak your peace, you don’t wanna be disrespected or have lame media tactics used on you to draw emotional responses, it’s as simple as that. Ye instantly reacted and was 100 through it all.
garbage
nigga should cancel his life.
Kanye is WHACK!
lol fareal. they need to cancel his twitter to…
Please someone off this joke, wannabe
Kanye is kind of an idiot. I mean, it’s not like he has any real talent. Whoever does his beats has talent, but that’s it. And as for his interview… Man! He looked like he couldn’t even talk! And the fact that he could not control the Today Show really bothered him. Control freak! That song of his, “Power” has gone to his head. He doesn’t have any! Except with teenagers maybe. Kanye West has just announced how lame he is when he ran away from Matt Lauer’s Today Show! Gangster? Nah. Stay in Dubai, you joker.
Are you serious? Kanye is an amazing producer he makes most of his own beats. He is a much better producer than rapper though yes
If anything teenegers fall for the stupid-illuminati of gays be-or the Stan like they should-I’m over 30 and he is all we got right now to represent real Hip-Hop and artistry and he is a hero for how he acted at the Today show and his decision that followed–artists need to get back on their rebel shit-you say what needs to be said and fuck the rest–he did that with Bush originally and he walked in the lion’s den to be a noble person and clean it up and it bites him in the ass–fuck it Ye-I agree with the above Chapelle comment they want puppets-fuck em you were right with Bush–they called you racist for Taylor because they are racists and thats the only context they think in–drop the album–sell multi-platinum-go back to your arrogant self-your better than them.
supposed to say-if anything teenegers fall for the stupid illuminati of gays bs-or they Stan like they should
“Land of the Gr8”-obviously not black-or you would know what we’ve been through with this country with how we’re portrayed and this is another example–good Shit Kanye-Fight the Power!
You’re over 30 and have a facebook page?
loser
Obviously your an idot! You were trying say Kanye wasn’t being “gangster.” Kanye doesn’t do “Gangster Rap.” So their isn’t a “gangster” bone in his body. He does most his own beats jackassssssss
Damn, this is some terrible letdown. I support Ye through all of this, but I am honestly sad he won’t be performing at Macy’s. The good news is, he is showing the younger generation something called Integrity. He made a point, but some of these h8ers a.k.a. landonthegr8/”me”/anonymous with these random comments of fruitless misinformation.. I mean cmon landon, don’t you know Ye does all his own beats? What do you really mean whoever does his beats has talent? By the way, I’m gonna let you finish, BUT YA’LL AREN’T HIS FANS so it looks like his comment bout banality of his fans doesn’t extend to you. This ain’t K-mart where u get a free plastic sack with your purchase.
Kanye is going through what Dave Chappelle went through. Everybody wants black men to take the money and not complain no matter what happens but if you are dying on the inside because they are killing the real you and your spirit it takes courage to speak up and turn down money. This happens all the time in sports if a black athlete speaks his mind he is suddenly a “cancer.” Dont let anyone put a price on your soul.
Please don’t make this about race – the Today show – Matt Lauer to be exact attacked Robert Downey Jr about his past drug addictions just like he did to Kanye – it has more to do with bad journalism then race.
Oops, he won’t perform at Today Show/on Black Friday* Macy’s is still on so forget what you heard!
I am happy to finally see an artist in the mainstream to actually sit there and call them out on their tactics. Whether they do it all the time or not what they do is wrong. I think Kanye has huge nuts for doing this and was long overdue. He would not sit there and let them exploit it any further. Not to mention it was completely rude on their part to include the audio, they obviously did not care about his response or what he had to say. They just wanted to cater to everyones preconceived notion of him
agreed.not to defend kanye,although i do enjoy his music and like him AS A ARTIST.fact is people,the media is nothing but despicable vultures.they really do try to exploit in every single sense,especially since kanye is trying to make amends!let the guy do so,he’s acknowledged his mistakes,and is willing to make amends for them.with that beind said,kanye needs to be more sincere too,because he clearly still is somewhat of an arrogant crybaby
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This is about as stupid as anything. The Today Show plays audio of relevant clips all the time, it’s not some new practice they brought up to blindside him. If Kanye didn’t know that before, than he’s an idiot for not doing his research, and he’s also an idiot if he didn’t think Taylor Swift would come up. Plus, if you actually watch the interview the chronology of questions makes perfect sense, there’s no random jump anywhere. I support Kanye, but he needs to get his mind right.
You’re right about them playing the audio, but they usually cue the guest that the clip is going to be played by saying “let’s take a look at the footage or clip”. It’s production cue to let the person know that they should hold their comment for after the clip is played.
you gotta put yourself in his position and look at it from his perspective and at the same time take into consideration that the things that Ye tweeted about Mike Jackson and “set ups” may be completely relevant…honestly if you stop and think about it all the hype about the media controlling and manipulating people and making them look bad just because they dont necessarily comply with what they want or interferes with their “agenda” is clear as day. They make a person life a living hell by either trying to make them look like a bad person or even killing them for speaking up. Not just with him but with people that stood up and tried to expose the bullshit….michael jackson, tupac, pimp c,…etc the list goes on but you just gotta take a deeper look sometimes and see past the gossip bullshit and the garbage the media feeds people…do some research man…
michael jackson and pimp c both overdosed for being stupid druggies. tupac im not even going to comment about, that was probably one of the weirdest murders ever, but making up your own story to fit your opinion is stupid and ignorant.
“feeding us garbage”
dude the media is feeding us kanye.
You wrote
“they make a person’s life a living hell”
However only if the person asks for the spotlight, the media doesn’t go up to random people for no reason and try to make their life a living hell because then they would be giving people who aren’t “famous” a piece of the limelight and that is not what the media is about.
Ya’ll are acting like Kanye is anti-media when he’s not. He used the Today show as another ploy to try and make money by gaining fans. He is using media for attention and advertising just like anyone else, he is just doing it in a way to try to appeal to the people who are anti-media because that is probably his target audience. He’s not anti-media, he is pro-media because he keeps putting out material and appearances. He is making blunder after blunder on purpose to try and gain acknowledgement that way.
This is kind of a joke if you think about it. Using twitter to tell people you are anti-media that doesn’t make sense.
C’mon and blog with the regular people if you think the media is all such a set up Kanye, but the dude won’t because he is one with media as well. This dude will not bring himself to the level of the regular folks, watch this is a set up in itself.
And he writes “I promote love and truth”
Is that what his recent material suggests?
Because I’m seeing the opposite of that in his recent songs and album covers.
yea I think its better off Ye jus make music..leave the press for….THE PRESS! i would like to assume he didnt know they was gon play exacatly what they were talkin bout at the time of the interview but i would be wrong lol…i would like to assume Ye has NEVER seen the “Today Show”…but i’d be wrong lol…#mybeautifuldarktwistedfantasy
is the entire actual interview posted anywhere? without the in-between/after the fact commentary from Matt?
“Moment whore”
i understand him cause he’s not really wanted to say that he’s not sorry if you listen to the interview and they was tryna force him to apologize and say sorry when he knows he’s not and he did it for a reason .. it is a set up .. they was tryna make him look like the bad guy ..
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who cares about todays show anyway..
Of all the things Kanye is doing right now, thats what they wanted to talk about wtf
with all that money he could at least get himself some P.R. lessons
i dont really respect the today show for how they handled kanye. But i dont respect kanye so much just so much arrogance in his personality i can just feel it.
ye’s next level
fuck the haters 20 yrs from now you’ll all be back trackin
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Today Show and NBC could careless if he performs of not. They’re just going to find someone else to do it.
the only people this affects are Kanye’s fans who were looking forward to seeing him wether it was live in person or on TV.
Kanye for the loss