Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, Kanye’s album sprang a leak earlier this week. I haven’t listened to it myself because I’m trying to wait for the dirty version to “come out,” but from what I’ve heard from other folks it’s pretty damn good. So it makes me wonder why ‘Ye would spaz out over this George Bush-Matt Lauer madness. I mean, I get why he would, but think about it: the 43rd president of the United States said that the “worst point” during his time running the country into the ground was when Kanye alluded (not called, there’s a clear difference) to him being a racist.
Not the egregious mishandling of the Katrina incident.
Not 9/11, and the subsequent “war on terrorism” in Iraq that many of us really don’t know what its true purpose was.
Not even when his Vice President shot a septuagenarian in the face while hunting quail then tried to cover the whole thing up, which would make the average person wary about what that administration did when they were actually on the job.
Nope, it’s Kanye West calling him a racist.
I’d wax more, but since most of you could really give three shits about what we say here that’s what the side hustle at XXL is reserved for. Seriously though, Kanye should just fall back on this one. This latest “promotional” push is nearing 50 Cent levels of absurdity, and he should just focus on the music and music alone. Not Taylor. Not Matt Lauer. And certainly not George Bush.
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agreed
Don’t assume people don’t care what you have to say, I personally agree with you. Although there are a lot of dumb comments on here there are hip-hop consumers that are interested in someone elses opinion.
Did the explicit version leak? I have only seen the clean version *shrugs*
The fact that Bush’s book tour is at the same time as Ye’s is how the business works. He should have known that was going to happen. I think he answered the questions about Bush to the best of his ability, but he needs to learn how to compose himself. You can tell that something deeper was bothering him, and it’s sad to watch.
I appreciate and agree with all of your comments though.
Fuck the Today show
its all falling into place. perfect reviews from i think 3 publications, universal acclaim from fans on twitter and blogs, hit single coming out and basically too much anticipation. i would bet my crib this nigga moves a milli 1st week.
It seems like Matt REALLY wanted Kanye to say the words “I’m sorry” for some reason. Kanye is just not good in interviews like this he should no longer take questions on Taylor Swift, George Bush and award shows, stick to the music. And the fact that they didn’t even mention his album and when it comes out means this whole thing is almost a complete waste for him. His music is undeniable and I’ve never known anyone that meet and interacted with him to say that he was an asshole so he should just let the media paint that negative image of him if they want because at the end of the day they still want him around….which is why at the very end of that clip they promoted his upcoming performance on there show.
That was the best commentary I’ve read all year!
true… they never even said anything about the album! bullshit
sweet fuck the media
I been saying for a long time that I think Kanye has some kind of inner demons/emotional issues going on. The guy is a very bright man but socially he is very awkward. He comes off as someone with a lot of anger inside them and someone who is delusional. He always makes things in his head different than they actually are and that is the reason why he always gets judged. He doesn’t see things the same way “normal” people do because I honestly think mentally he isn’t “normal”. If Kanye took a mental evaluation I would bet anything he would be diagnosed with some sort of emotional/mental disorder if he hasn’t already been diagnosed with something.
Meka – save your head in the sand Huey Newton views on politics
@cosign what meka . Ye’ its nout the music not these stupid fucks
^Wisley spoken^^ I saw that today and couldn’t help but laugh when Kanye was like “could yall please be quiet back there”
lol daaamn
cosign @meka what he said . Ye’ its bout the music not these stupid fucks
fuck meka “50 Cent” Levels of absurdity? nigga please kanye AND 50 Cent bot have been doing this type of shit for YEARSSSSSS.
haha, i was laughing at the same point @ SL. but on the real, Matt Lauer’s an asshole, but I mean, so is Kanye. He should’ve known what they were gonna ask him, and what kind of positions he was going to be in. Would’ve been better if he just sent a video statement out, that way he could avoid all of his prying questions. Should’ve promoted the album too, lol
doesn’t seem so bad. i think kanye overreacted honestly
All of you are a bunch of dick riders! If that was some random black dude off the street you would be saying he is a complete asshole or crazy in the head for the way Kanye was acting. I mean are you fucking serious? Dude was acting like a schizo who stopped taking his meds and you niggas are blaming Matt Lauer? hahaha
> Meka – save your head in the sand Huey Newton views on politics>
when exactly did i say this was a political thing? ninjas always looking for something to say…
“my words stop the internet”
- no one man should have all that power….
Lmfao @ when the guy says “and you’re sorry” and Ye took that longggg pause. You gotta applaud Kanye for not strangling him cos’ that guy was an asshole.
Today show played him.
Everyone in this is wrong, except bush to be honest. Matt Lauer knows kanye is a rock star and that you need to treat him a certain way, but he obviously wanted a reaction. Kanye has no right to react the way he did. And Bush feels that was the lowest point in his presidency not because kanye west called him a racist on stage, but because kanye was just saying what black people across the country felt. People can disagree with your decisions and politics but when you are called a racist as a man that hits you in an entirely different way
Meka hit the shit right on the head. I see the direction Kanye is trying to go in, just not givin a fuck both personally and musically and the whole “there’s nothing else y’all can do to me”, but either you gonna go hard and not give a fuck, or bitch and moan why critics/media don’t respect you and your work, because shit like this is why…and why Matt Lauer of all interviews lol? he the worst…
and he probably felt he didn’t need to promote the album…the clean version did that for him…word is spreading how that shit is looking like album of the year across the board
@Hauser Potts please try to be less of a douchebag when you comment. We could have a great discussion on this if asses like you don’t show up at every turn trying to stop the train. Geez, some people man.
Either way, Ye said he’s holding off on the interviews for now according to twitter:(http://twitter.com/#!/kanyewest/status/2113679034159104)(http://twitter.com/#!/kanyewest/status/2113910991757312). I’m glad for two reasons.
1) He was beginning to sound like a broken record in interviews. I don’t blame him for it, the interviewers just all ask the exact same things. He’s sorry for Bush and Taylorgate, no need to run it into the ground, media.
2)It became obvious that the more white the outlet, the stronger the crucifying would get. You can even see the progression. Kay Slay asked one Taylor question and then was like AITE WE GON DROP A FREESTYLE NOW. KW asked mostly questions about Bush/Taylor, but still promoed the album. And here we are at the Today show which has maybe 3 or 4 black viewers in all.
This shit was just not doing him much good.
Kanye’s album should be the album of the year Def Jam gave him over 3 MILLION for it! Kanye is dope but way overrated. You really think it’s hard to make a great album with a $3 million budget? lol
Kanye, Kanye, Kanye. Don;t let this stupid shit in the media take people’s attention from the epic album that is about to drop.
> but since most of you could really give three shits about what we say
most truthful thing on this site. people come here to grab free music no other reason
Soooooo who wants to provide a link to the new album?????
^^ Google his album + rrt and you will get a link
In words of Rick Marshal and my usual cable blaze movie -
“Matt Lauer can Suck It” ….
FUCK YOU MATT LAUER
yo, Matt Lauer is racist
matt lauer tends to get under peoples skin sometimes tho…circa Tom Cruise all those years back…It’s just good journalism…If he didn’t ask those questions he would’ve lost journalistic integrity ….
nobody seems to be mentioning the interview’s venue. its THE TODAY SHOW people. not some hip-hop certified station. they’re going to talk about what they know, and that’s politics and gossip. When Deanna Favre went on Good Morning America to promote her book, they talked about Brett and his texting other girls. they brought Ye on because he has an album coming out, but their intent wasn’t to talk about it, it was to ask the juicy questions. Kanye wasn’t prepared for the grilling questions, and he should have been.
#FuckMattLauer lets start a tt
lmao “can we be quiet for a second”
meka hit this one on the head.
well said Meka
&what rezo said..
haha at a rapper having beef with the president
“I don’t rap for dead presidents, I’d rather see the president dead, its never been said but i set precedents”—FUCK GEORGE BUSH
lololol kanye is the man
amen meka
“..it was on of the most disgusting moments of my presidency.”
…….
he never said it was the “worst point”.
just saying.
Kanye, you’re not a politician. You’re an artist. You’re role, as an artist, is to cause controversy. We’re supposed to question Bush’s motives and philosophies. We’re supposed to question what Viacom dictates is “good” for culture. You are the catalyst for confusion and reasoning. So, stop apologizing for doing your job correctly. Fuck the political rhetoric. Say what you feel. Your fans will respect you for it.
I can see why Kanye was upset. But in this case he overexagerated. Matt Lauer is a douche bag tho…
That was awkward. It’s like Kanye said during that one speech, “There’s no reality to celebrity”, despite the media and Matt Lauer trying to submit him into a position to express some sort of abstract reality at being a celebrity. It’s like the media is constantly just trying to feed us (the people) with vicarious bull shit to keep us docile.
Kanye has the potential to be our generation’s Muhammad Ali, but he refuses to stand by his views. Ali made explicitly racist statements in countless interviews, because Ali’s entertainment career gave him the constituency and financial freedom to speak freely and be respected. Kanye’s entertainment career provides him with an impressive constituency and financial freedom as well. He could speak freely and challenge the status quo, but he’d rather speak and then tuck his tail between his legs.
With each apology, I lose respect for Kanye.
bullshit..fuck you ML
Fuck George Bush
i fucks with kanye, although i think that he shouldnt have apologized to Dick Face Bush. we all know that most white politicians are racist, i bet as soon as Dick Face Bush heard Ye say “(Dick Face) George Bush doesn’t like black ppl” he said “no this nigga didnt”.
P.S
George Bush looks more like a monkey than anyone i know. And they got the nerves to call us monkeys, smfh.
Kanye is still kanye.
the album was nice for the most part, im waiting for the dirty version.
MEKA u cudnt have put it anybetter….I AGREE 100%
JxRadxB < WAT UR saying is SAD but TRUE.
also..muhammed ali was forced to enroll in the army at one point…and he fought against that…they didnt try n send kanye to iraq or anything..he just got a few racist internet tweets…and he still apologised to one of the most villified presidents in u.s history…….i mean DAMN even BUSH DIDNT APOLOGISE FOR IRAQ!
personally I liked Kanye’s reaction on the show. I don’t think he needed to tweet about it. But you can obviously see that Matt was trying to make him say “I’m Sorry” and Kanye didn’t want to say that.
@It’s just good journalism…If he didn’t ask those questions he would’ve lost journalistic integrity ….
Please After Walter Cronkite died Journalism has been dead for awhile at least in the mainstream , like music anyone putting in real work gets no shine or ends up getting cut from one of the main networks. Maybe you need to re watch the Bush interview or watch real journalists to learn what integrity means – same Lauer that rolled on questions about Bush essentially laughing off torturing people or the fact that anyone that isnt clearly retarded knows that any Iraq war intelligence was a straight up joke….
smh why does he have to apologize ,everything he did and said was TRUE ! smh, kanye needs therapy
“Choke a south park writer with a fish stick”
Why is Matt Lauer still calling him President Bush?
its still that same old “come here boy” mentality.
they want kanye to apologize..why not have bush apologize for sending ur kids to die in a “war” for reasons that have yet to be told to us. or for allowing ur kids to die in new orleans? but u want kanye to apologize for being angry about this OFFENSIVE TRAGEDY YEARS AGO
IT WAS 5 YEARSSSS AGO..!
at this point im not sure if this is a stunt on kanyes part to garner sympathy y apologize for something u said that was LEGITIMATE (ITS OKAY TO BE ANGRY..ESPECIALLY WHEN EVERY 1 WAS ANGRY AT BUSH BACK THEN) AND THAT HAPPENED 5 YEARS AGO! I DONT GET IT.
@txhustla15…..I didn’t watch the Bush interview so I can’t speak on that, but I did watch this…And knowing what the core audience of the Today show is, if Lauer didn’t ask those questions to Kanye it would’ve come off as weak and sugar coating..
is it just me or is kanye west self absorbed … lol WTF is wrong with this man – “can we bequiet plz ? ” – @ NBC staff – lol
he said ‘one of the worst’. so you’re examples would also be included in that category i’m assuming
This may be the best comment section I’ve seen on 2dopeboyz ever. Almost everyone here has great points about the whole shit. I wish kanye would have held his ground and not get pressured into an apology. He should’ve just kept saying “I can empathize” and left it at that b/c I don’t think he really is sorry for what he said, and he shouldn’t be. Bush deserves no ones sympathy for the 8 year shit he took on this whole country. From the second he took office, it was failure after failure. Totally corrupt administration in the most obvious ways possible. If Lauer had any balls, he would’ve gotten that apology out of Bush and not Kanye. *send Lauer a bootleg copy of Frost/Nixon*
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Lol. They didnt try to force his answers though.
did*
I personally think kanye got a personal phone
call to say sorry from the ELITE OR WHOS CONTROLLING
him just watching how weird he looks
or the soul less vibe hes giving in the interview
kinda weird.
and to think people that still think presidents
actually make our decisions in our country or run
this country is a laugh our country was sold out to
the federal reserve and on to the highest ELITE FAMILYS
or major corporations or the ELITE BANKS that actually
run our country now and just looking at all these puppet
presidents is just a L A U G H !
Why did kanye even do the interview for?
This shit is old news
@ Big Dee
u always refer to ex-presidents as president.
I understand what Kanye was saying and I get his grievances, they did head him off in the middle of a sentence just for the sole reason of including another controversial point in the interview for the sake of viewership.
I also feel like Kanye’s line pertaining to Bush and Katrina was taken FAR out of proportion, was Kanye out of line to say that, yeah? But he never uttered the word “racist”, and I think Bush really used that as a cop-out to discuss the worst moments of his presidency. Not Katrina, 9/11, the catastrophe in the Middle East, the economy crash he helped cause.
It was one sentence a rapper uttered during a fundraiser. Bull. Shit.
if a skinhead says he doesn’t care about black people specifically, is he a racist? alluding to something and explicitly saying something are not the polar opposites that you’re implying. in the interview kanye even admits to calling bush a racist (or as he states “peg” him a racist)…
you’re right, nobody cares about what you say on this blog. until you start spewing bullshit about significant events. it tarnishes your credibility.
Im wit Kanye, he don’t need to apologize. he may be sorry for his choice of words but millions of people in the US felt that way, he jus had the guts to say that shit on TV. THATS GANGSTA! fuck all these other wannabe thug rappers makin the white man rich!
Hmm, Kanye West acting like a child again? This dude needs to make his music and STFU. He’s good at making music, that’s about it. It’s PAINFUL to hear someone speak who overrates their intelligence. Hence, I’m pained every time this clown opens his mouth outside of the studio.
Kanye’s album leaked btw, EXPLICIT.
Where can i get the link for the album?
I won’t post link here cause Shake will PMS, just Google search “My Dark Twisted Fantasy Explicit” and set search for last 24 hours in search options.
ws up with the comments dissapearring?
fact. < um i thought mekas blurb was on point and so do most of the comments on this page.
G. W. Bush should burn in hell for eternity!
this was retarded. he shouldn’t have done this interview
@BillyClint I was wondering the same shit
haha kanyes hilarious. its ridiculous
BillClintonSaysFreeWe–OhWait < wen i sent my comment n the page refershed all the comments appeared again #weird
Yeah the last few days the c-sections have been fucked up.
Kanye has issues
Best Commentary ever on 2dopeboyz period. 99% real talk good shxt. all in all tho i thought this interview was fxcked up, i feel like the media is really breaking kanye down to be a COMPELETE asshole and thats not true he has his moments but you can see it in his face that all of this shxt is killing him on the inside every time i see kanye on these type of interviews i swear it look like he about to break down and cry…i personally believed bush didnt deserve a damn apology but man i feel bad for YE tho..
lol Meka is such a faggot. Why do you even try?
kanye is an asshole, but he makes good music
that is just the media trying 2 press into everyones mind wat they should think of kanye and other artists
keep your political opinions to yourself….lets hear a rant of how bad obama is doing. Bet you wont…even though he’s doing the exact same shit bush did…and some.
Ye’s not my favorite artist, but dam man just out of sincerity I want to see him do
Damn, Kanye choked on this one. Just fess up dude. Say it was a mistake, apologize..be real. No need to defend yourself so much. Hes making really good music right now. No need for this bad promo for his album. He’ll still sell a ton though. And relax with george 2dope. Damn, why wouldnt that be ONE of his low points during his presidency? A lot of crazy stuff happened during his time. Chilll
caliweed, all he’s been doing is cleaning up George’s 8 year old mess. Please turn off Fox News.
LOL, kanyes bugged out
“kanye is an asshole, but he makes good music”
^^^^^^hey, i finally see someone with the same view as me!
i always hated that most people cant ever separate the artist from the person… they let their view of one thing affect the other… i see them as different
real talk, i never f***ed wit the today show or any “news” networks for that matter. any news network fueled monetarily is grounds for an agenda. unfortunately, you have to find a venue to stay current. i feel ya Ye. I’m so applaud; this S#!T IS…F^CK!NG RIDICULOUS!!!
secondly, everybody that say f^ck Ye and he’s got issues gon buy or legally dl the album so shut the f^ck up wit the “i wanna be a blogger” rants about the artist (or any artist for that matter).
kanye knows what he’s doing. he’s stirring the pot to increase his album sales. he was nowhere for a year and now he comes back? and its like .. look at me again. his character is like a dumb version of diddy. people need to wake up and see that these guys are just fooling everyone. all about controversy, sales and money. if you pay for kanye’s album, you’re a fool.
Kanye didn’t apologize. While I agree that labeling the man a racist in singularity is not just. But George Bush was running America. George Bush’s action gave them impression that they didn’t care about the poor (which on TV all that week were pictures of black people begging the federal government for help).
He could have used other words that would have gotten an equal response…..
Katrina is not a priority for this Federal Administration. Saving Americans who are poor, majority minority didn’t seem to rank high for the swift response.
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He checked Lauder a couple of times in that interview. CLASSIC.
that being said, you know the album is going to be hot. just wish he would stop rapping, shut the F up and make the beats. more “heart of the city” less “work out song”. lol
Good A$$ F**Kinq Point! Meka! Same Shiit That Was Goinq Thro My Head.
The Album’s Siick By The Way.
How is that the most digusting thing in your presidency, is when KANYE called you a racist on live tv, when you were being called a racist everyday by the regular black people in a community that surrounded you? People that “maybe” voted for you, and now hates you because of what you’ve done to America…?! It’s so sad how you can bash someone who was only telling the truth about you and you try and make him feel sh*tty about it. Kanye yo! you str8 man f*ck em all ball til you fall, never trip, get money f*ck the news hype.
Good shit Meka.
The album is a classic and Matt L, can eat a donkey dick with honey mustard.
does anyone feel uncomfortable with the fact that they just throw out video meanwhile ‘ye is trying to express his apology (although we must admit it wasn’t done too well)
he ddnt say it was the worst moment
he said it was one of the most disgusting
two very different things
in personally do not like Bush
but don’t twist the man’s words