And can you blame him? The performance, set to take place on November 26th, was meant to follow this awful interview that Matt Lauer recently conducted with the rapper ("I want you to just look at his face..."), also on The Today Show. But if Kanye West has proved anything in 2010, it's that he doesn't have much need for the traditional media in terms of promoting himself and his music. (Which if you're the illegal downloading type you can now hear, in versions both dirty and clean. 'Ye seems zen about it.) So he told Lauer and The Today Show that they "made a mistake," and backed it up by bouncing on the program. In yet another Twitter stream of consciousness, of course. Rap Radar transcribed all the updates:

Kanye West has come in for some scorn for launching into yet another Twitter rant a couple nights ago ("Everything sounds like noise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYTHING SOUNDS LIKE NOISE!!!!!!! I don't trust anyone!"), pushing back against a then as-yet unaired interview with the Today Show's Matt Lauer. But then again, let's not forget: this is the same artist who went on Jay Leno's show, only to be asked by the bloated late night host what his dead mother would think of the way he'd treated Taylor Swift. So when 'Ye starts talking about how the media are trying to play him, don't be so sure they aren't. Anyway, you can watch the interview now. It's not a pretty thing: