VIDEO: Kanye West Snaps On Today Show Over VMA Rehash
Posted on Nov 11, 2010 @ 06:30AM
It's never boring with Kanye West.
Watch the video on RadarOnline.com
The 33-year-old hip hop star's latest controversy involves the Today Show after he recently sat down for an interview with host Matt Lauer to reflect back on his 2005 remark that former President George W. Bush "doesn't like black people" - a coment he made following the Bush administration's uninspired reaction to Hurricane Katrina.
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"I would tell George Bush, in my moment of frustration that I didn't have the grounds to call him a racist," the Heartless singer told Lauer. "I want to get the exact perfect wording ... I'm here to man up for different mistakes that I made ... I came here to say I made mistakes, and I've grown as a person. I did not have enough information in that situation to call him a racist."
The Jesus Walks singer said he was empathetic to Bush because he himself was branded a racist after crashing the stage during Taylor Swift's VMA acceptance speech last year in protest over her winning the best video award over Beyonce Knowles.
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But when NBC rolled background footage of the Swift incident over the interview , things got a little testy.
"Yo, how am I supposed to talk when you gonna run the thing in the middle while I'm talking?" West said. "Please don't let that happen again, that's ridiculous."
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On Tuesday, West unloaded about the interview on his Twitter page, claiming Lauer sandbagged him over the Swift incident.
"Man I'm heading to Abu Dhabi finna go to Ferrari Land YESSSS!!!....but before I take off let me tell you how they did me at the Today show...I went up there to express how I was empathetic to Bush because I labeled him a racist and years later I got labeled as a racist," he wrote. "While I was trying to give the interview they started playing the "MTV" under me with audio!!!!!!! I don't mess with Matt Lauer or the Today Show ... and that's a very nice way for me to put it!
"HE TRIED TO FORCE MY ANSWERS. IT WAS VERY BRUTAL AND I CAME THERE WITH ONLY POSITIVE INTENT," West wrote. "I feel very alone very used very tortured very forced very misunderstood very hollow very very misused ... I don't trust anyone! ... He played clips of Bush and asked me to look at his face while I was trying to talk to him."
Lauer, in response, said that was there was "nothing unusual [or] improper about" playing the Swift clip in the background.
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Never! Wish I could have put all this in a sarcastic font. As for Kanye, just an @ hole brat. Plain and simple.
Posted Fri, 11/12/2010 - 11:28am
From previous commenter....."i work with you entitled people and it sucks you white people are devils!"-------Racism at it's finest, oh but wait, this appears to be coming from a black person! A black person, racist?!?!?!?
Posted Fri, 11/12/2010 - 11:27am
is G.W. Bush a racist?does anybody remember G.W. Bush insulting John McCain 4 having a black child? Sarah Palin terming Obama as a Muslim terrorist or Sharon Angles. commercials on immigration in Nevada?-MikeAlike (independent recording artist)
Posted Fri, 11/12/2010 - 11:21am
He's rude, self-centered, a no talent egomaniac who has the emotional maturity of a 2 year old during a temper tantrum.
Posted Fri, 11/12/2010 - 3:37am
Does he ever watch these shows when people are interviewed? They always play an excerpt if they have it, to back up their question they are asking. I'm surprised Kanye did not see that coming. Or one of his reps. He needs some emotional help.
Posted Fri, 11/12/2010 - 12:14am
WRONG AGAIN--it's the media that won't let it DIE..Swift has practically made millions and extended what was going to be a short lived singing(if you call it that) career--The media will suck the financial life out of any situation-TRUST ME<
Posted Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:58pm
i see a lot of people in here are F**ing morons--why should he shut his mouth--we live in a free society and your arse better be glad you have freedom of speech-The day that gets taken away , the day self-defense ends..
Posted Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:55pm
Brenda on "Survivor" said it best last night: "Every time he opens his mouth he's like a baby cryin waa waa waa"!
Posted Thu, 11/11/2010 - 7:50pm
He just needs to STFU and let this go. He keeps dragging it back out to the front and it only serves to make him look like a bigger ass than he is.
Posted Thu, 11/11/2010 - 6:29pm
I cant stand kanye, he is so arrogant (sp?) and he is the biggest racist of anyone. who really cares what he has to say anymore?? he thinks he's all that and a bag of chips LOL...NEWS FLASH...you're just an a$$hole
Posted Thu, 11/11/2010 - 4:13pm