West’s salient personality trait is his sense of injustice: It is easily provoked and sometimes screaming out for serious recalibration.

But that’s the way those of us who like Kanye West like Kanye West, and he knows it: He wears his emotions on his sleeve, proudly impervious to the burnishing effects of media training.

The notable thing was that West, who’s been around the block a few times, took objection with such spectacular awkwardness, his anger and humiliation catching in his throat, his temper flaring. When he appeared on the Today Show earlier this month and ground the proceedings to a squirmy halt, miffed that producers bum-rushed him with a clip of his Taylor Swift bum-rush just as he was formulating his hundredth reflection on that fateful night, what was notable wasn’t that the interruption rankled West-just because such practices are “something we do everyday,” as Matt Lauer put it, doesn’t mean they aren’t also rude. At three full minutes, the coda is ungainly, but West does ungainly well: He’s full of big, brash ideas and can be gloriously messy about expressing them, whether it’s in his songs, interviews, at awards shows, in his 34-minute movie, Runaway, or on his Twitter feed.

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