Monday, October 25, 2010

Fuck Steven Spielberg. Kanye West Is The Best Director Of All Time. Of All Time. Hip Hop Reinvents Filmmaking

 fist tap Gee Chee

16 comments:

Seven Half Store said...

...why I will always choose an artist.

No one can stop an artist in love. Should you win their affections you are forever their muse. In duress, you are their first idea and last word. You are extraordinarily beautiful, strangely angelic and supernatural. You are living inspiration. Until. . .

Seven Half Store said...

By the way..

Who will survive in America?

Denmark Vesey said...

you think I'd crumble?
you think I'd lay down and die?

Oh no O, not I

I will survive
as long as i know how to love
I know I will stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive
I will survive

Anonymous said...

After this, you can put Weezy down for a sec and Stan Kanye for a good 18months without objection from me.

This dude is in his own category.

He loved his mother something fierce. I'm sending mine some e-sugar right now.

KP

Anonymous said...

Kanye probably doesn't even realize the effect he is making on Hip Hop and even more so RAP. it's nothing new for a "hip hop" artist to expand is his/her horizon but Kanye is still giving straight hardcore top notch RAP music. That intro song is RAP it takes u back. Weezy?!? Weezy is good but never reached the level of artistry that makes u truly appreciate Kanye. Comparing Weezy to Yeezy is like comparing a quarterback to receiver and saying they are both football players. (btw Yeezy is the qb).

Anonymous said...

Honestly, I think Kanye and Jay got some behind the scenes think tanks. Not to take anything away from Kanye. I consider that off of one experience an artist shared that Kanye got to decorate his home. He wanted everything in Gucci. It's all good, but you don't get one of these upper tier artist to do work and tell them put everything in Gucci. You can crack open O magazine and find some interior decorator. I was impressed that he took out time to find out who Mark Bradford was. I think it was smart in selecting a star artist and have them do some pauper work, even though he didn't accept the gig but handed advice.

Back to think tank...you do have to be smart enough to bring the right people together to fulfill objectives. James Brown not being a musician didn't take anything away from his ability to bring talents together. He was a perfectionists.

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Anonymous said...

Kanye has mentioned MJ so many times. MJ was influenced by James Brown. MJ did Thriller. Kanye created his own Thriller. Try to get the music and you can't. So your only option is to keep returning to the video, over and over.

Now Kanye and Jay may or may not be on some Illuminati stuff. Just like Prince may or may not have been on some gay stuff before. Regardless it captures a group that raises these questions. Today with a viral instrument (the internet) you don't have to have a Rolling Stones article to create an entry point.

Kanye I can see thinking these things through, but not Jay.

Anonymous said...

"Kanye probably doesn't even realize the effect he is making on Hip Hop..."

Naw magne, that boy knows what he's doing. He's too selective with his imagery not to know.

Anonymous said...

...just check the artist he has chosen to do the Graduation album cover and the Power album cover.

The Doc said...

Oh, wow. That was amazing. I've always had a feeling Kanye had something like this in him. I'm glad to see it's finally coming out. Genius. It's definitely Kanye's "Thriller" moment. I just wonder how much of the concept was him, given Hype wrote the story. Well, most particularly i'm curious about the visual effects, the fireworks and the inclusion of those ballerinas. Either way, great stuff. I've always liked Kanye, but I think i'm going to have to buy his next album now.

I've been out of the loop on cable for a few weeks now, can anyone tell me if this is getting regular play on MTV? (I won't even bother asking if something like this gets love on BET because.... well, you know.)

Anonymous said...

Really folks, enjoyed you intellectual pysco babble from time to time...but you are really reaching on this one, this video was a incoherent mess, nothing but his usual hyperbole!

The Doc said...

Umm, what part of it didn't make sense to you, pray tell?

HotmfWax said...

Anon,

Understand the Metaphysics, Stolen Khemetic history, Hindu and astrotheology that the "nucleus(people in charge) have been trying to use to control the mass.

Their rational with a few hints are touched on in this entire video. Every Movie you watch have parts of this philosophy buried somewhere in it .

This edited review right or wrong might give you some of the montage.

Breakdown:

"The general underlying theme in the film, which all other sub-themes stem from is that of life, death, and rebirth. In alchemy, metaphorically speaking the ultimate goal is to burn away the dross of your being, in order to turn yourself into gold.

This is the human condition where we must constantly struggle to burn away our imperfections of fear/doubt, so that we can ascend closer to love.

Kanye captures their universal truth, and reminds us of how we all live the life of the Phoenix.

We are all one living organism, breathing together, burning together, and being reborn together; striving towards love like flowers towards light.


In this struggle there will always be evil for us to overcome, which Ye personified with a few cool scenes.

The part where he was confronted with the question "Do you know she's a bird?" at the dinner table was a way of talking about caste systems dating back to the beginning of time.

Ye's response was very poetic as he said, "No I never noticed that", personifying himself and this new generation to look past the caste you were born into.

Yeezy himself is an example of overcoming the caste system by rising from the middle class to royalty so to speak, resonating the message that every being has the potential for greatness no matter their outward appearance.

And if that comment wasn't enough sarcasm, Kanye ends up shitting on everyone at the bourgeois table by toasting to all the douche bags with an incredible performance of "Runaway".

It was beautifully executed, because the ballerinas personified Ye's music on a physical realm adding to the experience of the song on another level. The addition of the ballerinas made you feel the elegant visual connection between body and sound.

Another evil Ye warned the viewer to overcome is that of their own perception by saying, "First rule in this world baby, don't pay attention to what you see in the news". This slight warning opens up a whole can of worms, because if you really open your eyes and look, you'll see how decisions are being made to keep the general level of consciousness at an all time low.

People will believe anything they are told, and are open for easy manipulation. Did you know that the "news" is being controlled by companies that profit by others misfortune? While you watch TV and pay attention to fake representations of life, you're missing the black sack that's being pulled over your head.

Food is being chemically altered to create long term health problems, crisis' are being created to bring us into wars for money, our economy is built on debt, education and healthcare are not a priority, we are consuming all of our natural resources, fear and terror is marketed to society through mass media, and we are being conditioned for control with troop imagery/microchip propaganda.

HotmfWax said...

cont-


Kanye ends up touching on this topic of slave mentality, with the visuals of the kid running with the red torch. Yeezy said that the kid represented passion that roams freely, however he foreshadowed that same kid falling into a slave mentality with the imagery of him wearing a red cult hood like the rest of the followers.

As a society most of us spit evil to the young by saying that something is impossible, trapping them to think about life in a certain slave perspective; as Yeezy said, I think it's our duty to break out society from their own mental jails in leading by example, and showing that anything truly is possible.

One of my favorite scenes in the film is when Ye is sprinting down the long road, which reminded me of our own unique metaphysical paths that we are assigned to walk.

It made me smile that Ye was sprinting down his, and inspired me to pick up the pace! (Sidebar: the best teacher is inspiration, because it is the fastest motivator of evolution.)

In conclusion the film "Runaway" foreshadows the cycle of life, death, and rebirth that is thrusting us towards spiritual evolution

The album will have similar themes of recognizing evil, burning it away, being reborn in a new light, and lastly repeating the cycle all over again.

While Kanye would never admit it, I do believe that we as a culture have finally turned him to stone by relating him to the Phoenix.

His life exemplifies the Phoenix, and I believe we can always count on Yeezy to shine beautifully, burn beautifully, and be reborn beautifully.

We've seen it done during 'College Dropout', '808s & Heartbreak', and most recently this past year from Taylor Swift to 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'!

This is why I respect Kanye West, because he burns willingly for the benefit of humanity as a whole. "


End of "edited" Review.

Hope that was helpful.

Namaste-

GKY said...

Have you seen this Esquire photo (you'll know which one I'm referring to) on the actress in the video - Selita Ebanks p://www.esquire.com/the-side/opinion/selita-ebanks-kanye-west-runaway-film-102410#img?

Peace.