Kanye West's new 'music video' "Runaway" came out yesterday in its full length, which is about 34 minutes.
You may be thinking "But wait, that's a long ass music video" and you'd be right. However, "Runaway" isn't a music video for one song, and it's not just about the music. It's a 'film' that Kanye directed which features songs from his next album, and it's fucking dope.
I was skeptical at first to be honest, like, Lady Gaga does her artistic music videos, with "Alejandro" and "Telephone" where she managed to tarnish my view of Beyonce, so there's already been creative musicians going artistic with long music oriented films before, and I wasn't really feeling it and that was like 10 minutes. So a 34 minute long film? I wasn't sure it would be worth it, I figured I'd watch it and maybe skip through it.
Then, I started watching, and when the female narrator (Nicki Minaj's english accent? It fits the purpose) is talking and rhyming and hitting it right, and the opening beat kicks in, and the opening rap by Kanye, I really started feeling it, especially the "You ain't got no Yeezy?" echo and then it hits that "Can we get much higher?" chorus, I mean, I'm not really that into the feathered girl stuff, but from the beginning I was HOOKED. Fish style baby.
And I'm not gonna give you a whole play by play of the film, but needless to say, I ended up watching the entire thing and didn't regret it, the music is dope, the visuals are sick, props to Yeezy for it - except for some corny parts.
So here you go, enjoy:
(Since it's the clean version, the censoring during "Runaway" are so corny)
My favorite parts are the intro, obviously, when he starts jamming out with the samples like at the beginning of "Runaway" at 5:56, especially when it leads to the sampling while the kid is running leading the red smoke behind him, dope!
And cause I couldn't help but give you songs to download, here's that Yeezy:
(This is my favorite version of the song, the one he played at the VMAs with him going to work with the samples, sounds fresh to death. Wow haven't said that in a while. Or ever maybe, until now! Fresh to death cherry!)
(The version without the samples, in case you like your music with less samplage?)
"Stupid, but what the fuck do I know? I'm just a chi-town nigga with a Nas flow"
(Easily my favorite song in the film, it was the best introduction 'cause of the song and set the tone in my opinion, had you remember that it was Kanye and that he's fresh and a rapper, Kanye on the mic rather than Kanye singing is definitely the way to get my approval, oh, and mentions of Nas work too)
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