@@YantoWest not necessarily true. There are many artists now that make half their album the week before. for example, kanye did that with donda. he re recorded and partially rewrote half of the album
It’s not experimental at all it’s when he became friends with Marilyn Manson. It’s him rapping over a Manson style/Pigface beat. I’m not dissing him for that, he’s a great artist. But he went from defending paedophile MJ to hanging with rapist and abuser Manson, and now he’s hanging around with men accused of worse. I don’t understand how someone apparently so intelligent can keep such bad company.
Came here to rewatch this after discovering a letter that Bono (U2) wrote to Kanye regarding this performance. Literal goosebumps.. Dear Kanye, I was a hundred feet from your feet… Your eyes were shut so as not to be distracted from the words you had just written around the corner, but here you were debuting this song live from Saturday Night Live… and I’m in the TV studio to witness some black history. It’s May 18, 2013. Your “leather black jeans on My by-any-means-on Pardon, I'm getting my scream on Enter the kingdom” It felt like hip hop wanted the black leather jacket back from rock ’n’ roll… and the rock ’n’ roll silhouette too. And there you were. Head like a bullet against the supermarket yellow backdrop with a sign saying NOT FOR SALE. Words shot from a glock-like mouth, from the lips of some punk Othello, with dogs like wolves on a leash… teeth bared, tongues dripping, ku klux knots slipping. I was about to get musically kicked in the head but I remember the smell of bovver boot leather as it actually stomped on me. I remembered white skinheads. I remembered the feeling of being 15… I’m watching a film noir, horror… I was in that movie… but that night the beating was inside my head not on my head, in fact it sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before. The soundtrack of terror, but I wasn’t afraid… I was relieved somebody was fearless. Your fan since you came out on the road with us for the Vertigo tour, again, fearless... Bono
I was glued to my computer for the release of Yeezus. I watched all the New Slave projections and Black Skinhead is easily one of my favorite performances ever. That being said, Hey Mama at the Grammys is by far his best performance. Can't watch it without crying. can't watch it on RU-vid cause of copyright btw. Dailymotion has it.
@@windingrefn8417, its all subjectful. Some ppl love JIK. I rly like all the songs. I don't rank Kanyes albums cause i listen to them in different moods
This performance was before Yeezus was released, so I can't imagine expecting more My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and getting this aggressiveness. Understandable why people didn't like it, but holy smokes, looking back this is one of Kanye's best performances of all time. He was way ahead of the times
❤❤ how old are you? 🙏🏽 - this was 2012, at 28, it feels like yesterday, the emotional experience still resonates. What's profound about this run was the tour though. Like Michael Jackson's bad tour - it will be remembered forever
Damn, this is a crazy performance. The audio-visual work is steller. Probably one of the most shocking and experimental featured acts to be put on such a huge, mainstream timeslot.
I remember going to Kanye West concert in Malaysia years ago, small crowd of say 300 or so, but he still rocked it for over two hours. Crowd was wild in response. Concert to remember. West rocks it when he wants.
chriiisclm it was though even with the album art it’s just a blank cd. It was raw when everything around it was super produced and trying to be beautiful. It’s almost a metal album. Reminds me of SoundCloud music before SoundCloud was even around like that. Like XXX. Kanye makes good music no debate each of his albums has their own vibe and style. Yeezus was raw , real , fuck you fuck the system fuck everybody fuck how everyone does things this is how I’m going to do it. Just listen to new slaves.“ y’all tryna turn shit up , I’m bout to tear shit down ! “ anti especially when compared to my beautiful dark twisted fantasy that was about a fake super produced plastic surgery beautiful lifestyle
and i can't help but wonder if the title is a reference to actual skinheads who started out of the ska/punk scene back in the mid to late sixties. this was before the word had a racist connotation, it was just a punk thing
@@qwertydog9795 Skinhead culture came out of the mod scene, they were known as hard mods, not ska or punk. They did later associate with the punk scene. The ska and reggae thing is more of a Jewish liberal lie to defame skinheads and make them seem like they worshipped black culture and slight them that way. Most early skinheads were against invaders from foreign nations into England and the UK. They were not racist, they were guardians of their nation and Indigenous land. They were opposite of the long haired, drug addled, liberal hippies. Skinheads were also called "peanuts" or "bovver boys" before skinhead caught on. They also didn't have shaved heads, just short cropped hair. The shaved head is a poser thing.
I want everyone to pay attention to the "Not For Sale" sign that appears right before he starts, throughout, and right when he's done performing. Kanye was playing chess with Nike meanwhile we were all just thinking about some red sneakers 👀 Leverage people. Leverage.
chad It's not derived from anything. Just like you say it has elements of death grips, I'd say it has elements of rock. Don't act like it contains everything that's in rock
chad Just because they say "hey" the whole time and Kanye yells too it's alike? It's really not that similar. Black keys howlin for you sounds more like is rock and roll part 2 than Kanye. I don't think he sat down studied rock and then did this song. It simply has elements of rock which is why it's somewhat similar to so many generic rock songs. Not "derived" man. Take it easy on trying to claim shit
DAMN. I used to think him calling himself a rock star was kind of silly, at least inaccurate. But that was the most rock n' roll thing on SNL in a long, long time.
I remember looking at the comment section 3 years ago and it was full of hate. A small amount of people actually like the album. I liked it because of its rawness. 3 years later, everyone appreciates this album. It's crazy how Kanye is years ahead of everyone.
+Cameron French yeah he was trying to passively clown kanye but then he heard the performance and felt it lol then when he introduces kanye's next song which was new slaves u can tell ben was all enthusiastic n shit. Yeezus walks.
Love him or hate him, this man is a pure, unadulterated artist. Which is insanely hard to come by these days, especially at his level of commercial success.
He has commercial success, for whatever reason, but he is no musician, no artist. unadulterated and unckeced Ego, and for some reason the masses swallow it up. Unfortuneatly thats what people want these days, a talentless asshole with a god complex, people lap that shit up. A musical Connor McGregor... Why does the world love cunts so much?
Bravest man in America. He knew they would destroy every aspect of his life and decided that the American people knowing the truth was more important that the money, businesses, etc that took him a lifetime to build. He’s our generations Henry Ford
@@skypie3000that makes me like him even more. Everything you’ve been taught about that period in history is a lie. Do some research and you’ll find you’ve been played from the get go
He is really smart but his ego is rather hurting him when it comes to the simple folk and their stance on Kanye. They can't see beyond the ego to the genius that lives in there. He's fucking great. He's Kanye. That's the only way to describe him.
What people need to realize that he shouldn't be judged for how likable he is. He's not trying to be likable, and his success is measured in a unique way. If Taylor Swift was an outright bitch for example, she wouldn't be as famous as she is now.
yes yes YES! by so far. This version is the best version. Both this and new slaves are better on SNL. I get what he's trying to do on yezus, but both tracks on SNL have a quality that the attempted minimalism on the album does not achieve. P.S. RUN THE JEWELS.
Aaron Jackson Nah, he sounds a lot more powerful on the snl version than the studio version. The screams in this one are a lot better too, the studio ones sounded off track and delated, kinda weird.
Will V I was at Governor's Ball 2013 and think that was the first concert performance of the song. It was pure MADNESS. The whole crowd was yelling the song at the top of our lungs!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Interesting. I don't think its theatre but it would make sense for the inglorious bastard line preceding it. Below is what I hear "What do you say to a masked man, this inglorius bastard thats scrappin' We might at this very instant like the being that hitler was trapped in"
I've been a fan of 'Pac , The Beatles , Marilyn Manson among many other revoloutionary artists and bands, but from all the music I've heard in my life, nothing is quite like Kanye's music, he's always provided something new, something original and innovative. His vision and direction have created a new dimension in music, you have to understand him as an artists to enjoy music beyond the likes of 'Stronger' and 'All of The Lights' ... once you understand what he is trying to do as a person, only then will your mind open up to who and what Kanye West actually is. Albums like Yeezus and 808's weren't invented to be heard and loved by absolutely everybody, that's not Kanye's mission... he was, and still is creating music with such intelligence and creativity. Putting it basically - Kanye makes music, you either love it, or you hate it.. You either love him, or you hate him... I chose to understand Kanye's levels of limitation, and found out they aren't any... Kanye West > The whole fucking game
He's a genius when it comes to making beats. But his lyrics are not close to his beat-making level. Kendrick is the best in the game when it comes to lyrics right now.
The GOAT!!!!! My fav rapper/artist. I need him to get back to the creativity and move past the “past.” Don’t allow folks so much of his power to be taken away because of what he used to have. He deserves more and should continue to focus on his life as a man and father. I’ve been there in regards to being with someone whom I once loved but lost to the public and to someone I called a friend however, I had to take an “L” and move on. He has to take time out to focus on himself. They simply aren’t worth it. Love from his biggest fan