Finally in (higher) quality formats. Common's in there too. The censored luggage ref is Louis Vuitton.

MOV - windows - real (via videostatic)

         

erm... please explain, k, why this is of any interest at all.

         

Yeah, there isn't any stop motion, and the band isn't a bunch of bearded dudes from the midwest. So not interesting.

In all seriousness, this is a pretty nice piece. Self-referential, well photographed, and understated. The way Kanye doesn't rap his own lines reminds me of the Clipse video where Pharrell just nods his head while a video model lip synchs his lines. Real real.

         

I'm confused as to why Progosk comments on rap vids at all sometimes.

         

wait a sec. there was definitely some beard in there...

erm... maybe it's because i refuse to believe rap is necessarily destined to shutter itself into its genre-corner like, say, science fiction. great science fiction - admittedly rare stuff - transcends its (perceived) limits, and i expect the same of great rap (vids). the rest is dross and umbilicology.

         

Or, just for arguments sake, maybe it doesn't conform to your rock-based standards.

Just for the sake of argument...

         

as long as it's not this same argument...

call me what you see fit, but ideologist? nuh-uh.

         

Windows Media and Real? I just threw up a little in my mouth.

         

does anyone know where I can DL a quicktime of this? or point me to a hidden utoob?

         

Corner of my eye keeps catching that screenshot + I'm seeing Little Stevie Wonder in a pissy mood.

         

kanye is crap , i can't stand thinking about him .

when he first came out they told a story about him having a car accidant and his face was all borken and shit , and then he's done surgery so his face always have wierd expresions ..fuck him . olso he dresses in a way that make me wanna puke .

death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,death to kanye ,

         

shame you feel that way, Kanye aparently thinks you're lovely...

         

...And I'm sure yr expression of impotent fury doesn't look the least bit weird, but hey, we all have our personal issues. And personally I'll own to holding possibly beard-based guitar-slinging preferences, for sure, but I'm a long way from rockist. Rather than tagging any accepted rap aesthetic as inauthentic, I find that watching from a position of such ignorance + cultural disconnection renders me inauthentic. I watch this stuff, + I feel like I'm pretending to be black, which is somewhat disconcerting, being a "woman of colour" + all. But Kanye just makes me laugh. He dances like my dad.

         

grammy family mov up top^^^