Kanye West has released the music video to his Monster track, featuring Rick Ross, Jay-Z, and Nicki Minaj (the version leaked online in December was a rough cut with some temporary scenes for filler). I don’t have much to say, as I already posted about this when it leaked. A couple of notes, though: this is just a tidied up version of the leak, it’s the same old, really; it’s got one or two extra scenes with dead dudes, C&P’d in after some oversensitive people complained the rough cut was misogynistic; it’s a little neater around the edges and continuity issues have been fixed, most noticeable were the intolerably inconsistent scenes with Minaj; its storyline is clearer and there is more focus on the faces of the dead bodies and playing with the bodies than in the first cut. It’s also in much higher definition and the annoying synching issues are gone. Watch the final cut below.
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All Of The Lights Gets Epileptic Seizure Warning
All Of The Lights music video for Kanye West’s single, directed by Hype Williams, was temporarily pulled from YouTube on Thursday. I just checked: it’s back after being yanked for a few hours and replaced by ‘this video is no longer available.’ The video, according to NecoleBitchie.com, was declared a health hazard to those with Epilepsy. This will come as no surprise to anyone who attempted to sit through the video. It is, at the very least, headache/ eye ache-inducing. I missed it initially because I was too busy posting Britney Spears’ products placements. So this went up as an afterthought only because West was later accused of ripping-off his concepts from the opening credits of a French film. It now has a very clear message underneath, ‘WARNING: This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.’ Better late than never.
Did Kanye West Rip-Off All Of The Lights Video?
Watch Kanye West All Of The Lights music video featuring Rihanna and Kid Cudi.
Kanye West released his All Of The Lights music video at the end of last week, but I was entirely too distracted by the Britney Spears Hold It Against Me video to notice. Along with potential legal news about this video from the weekend, I’m posting this now rather than overlooking it altogether. It’s being alleged by some, who noticed the similarities, that sections of the above video rip-off the opening sequence of the 2010 film Enter the Void, directed by Gaspar Noe. That intro is below for comparison. All Of The Lights is one song on West’s album I kept skipping initially because its introduction is annoying. Then, once it got going, the vocal from Rihanna grated my nerves. Only recently did I hear it all the way through, and the beat was pretty good, if nothing else. The video features Rihanna and Kid Cudi (I’m not ashamed to admit I have no idea who Cudi is). There are stills from the video below, because there are some interesting visuals in the opening section before we move on to the seconds and seconds of gratuitous cuts and shots of Rihanna’s almost bare breasts. Seriously, as a straight girl I couldn’t look at her face, she was showing that much front/ side/ under-boob. She covered her areola with inches-wide material and called it a day. It’s even less covered than the neckerchief-as-a-shirt I wear to buy groceries. It’s obscene. OBSCENE, I tell you. It’s so obscene I capped the heck out of it.
Watch opening title sequence to 2010′s Enter the Void, directed by Gaspar Noe.
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Kanye West VMAN Magazine By Karl Lagerfeld
I posted a leaked version of this cover and a ‘making of’ video from Kanye West’s Vimeo days ago. I actually saw these pictures from VMAN Magazine #21 earlier, but forgot to post them (I had an extremely long nap instead of doing work. And it was AWESOME). The magazine cover is shown above and further images from the magazine are below. It’s stuffed with real money, one dollar bills, which appears in the video to have been inserted into his mouth by hand. The Karl Lagerfeld shoot is pretty striking and is one of my favourite covers of the month, along with the proper release of Lady Gaga’s Vogue March cover.
Kanye West VMAN Cover Stuffed With Money
Kanye West covers the #21 Spring 2011 issue of VMAN magazine. ‘V’ standing for ‘Visionaire,’ which I’d forgotten, and not ‘Vagina Magazine,’ as I’d whimsically opined in the last post with Nicki Minaj on the cover. West’s cover’s going to be pretty much the only cover to sell, this season. Because it comes with free money. Not that it really makes sense to spend money to ‘save’ money. But, I’m a woman. And that’s just how I roll. This is a cover by Karl Lagerfeld, and it shows. It’s pretty amazing. And, then there are those dollar bills in his mouth. Which, according to the video below, will be real. Yes, REALLY. The magazine’s creative director, Virgil Abloh, tweeted a link to a video from West’s VIMEO account, and noted, ‘Our VMAN cover. Everything we put out breaks some sort of rule. Karl Lagerfeld and some kid from Chicago.’ The video shows the money being stuffed between West’s teeth, from the bags and bags of legal tender.
Listen to Kanye West & Jay-Z HAM Single Audio
Kanye West and Jay-Z’s single, HAM (Hard As A MF’er) can be heard below. HAM is the first joint single from their forthcoming joint album, Watch the Thrones, which is expected to be released March 1, 2010. The single was released on the Watch The Throne Facebook page, at midnight 1/11/11, as West promised in a Twitter message that also revealed the single’s cover. I don’t pay that much attention to West’s feed, as he’s like the male LeAnn Rimes of Twitter fap. So this is the first time I’m seeing this single cover. I wasn’t expecting to like this song, if only for its title (that’s making me think of a ham sammich… and of Jon Hamm, eating a ham sammich… I’m actually not joking). But seeing as how I played it thrice, back-to-back, I guess I LOVE it. It’s BANGING. Listen to it below.




