Kanye West – “Power” [Video]

From director Marco Brambilla (the guy that brought us Demolition Man. No joke.) comes the new video for Kanye’s “Power”

I won’t describe the whole thing, I know you’ll probably watch it before even reading this, so I’ll just comment.

Right as the 2 swordsmen are coming down for the kill shot on Kanye!!!!!…..it ends? yeah, it ends before it even hits the 2 minute mark. It left me with….blue eyeballs or something (pause?)

On one hand, its AMAZING, just LOOK at it! But on the other hand, its BULLSHIT! I will say that Kanye DID tell us “It’s not a video .. It’s a moving Painting!!!”. So maybe thats just Mr.West, being Hip-Hop’s Andy Kaufman, messing with the norm again.

If thats the case, good job ‘Ye”

Download: Kanye West feat. Dwele – “Power”

Update: Added the Uncensored Version

  1. To quote a comment I read about this video, “Now I understand how a woman feels when a nigga nuts fast” lol. On one hand credit goes to Ye for making a unique/creative video with a presentation/format that’s not the norm in terms of music videos. But other than that this was BS for that fact that it wasn’t even two minutes in length. I immediately thought about the video for “Flashing Lights” after watching this, but at least that video had a woman with enough “goods” to justify the length. This is Kanye West though, anything beyond the norm shouldn’t be surprising…. This video + Kanye’s Twitter + Album preview office visits = Ye’s master marketing plan to keep people talking and get back on the good side before ‘Untitled’ drops.

      1. Lmao, he needs to title it ‘The Mind of Mr. West’ and play the cover art off of The Roots ‘Phrenology’ album. I mean I think the inner workings is something everybody would like to know cause it’s difficult to understand his decisions and moves at times. Speaking of the video though, I heard that this is only a snippet of the full video. But honestly I don’t believe that, I think this is all we’re gonna get in terms of a video for “Power”. I thought the video for “Flashing Lights” was a preview, but nothing else came from that so… *Ye Shrug* That whole “G.O.O.D. Music Day” shit on Sept. 14 is pretty much dead now especially if he doesn’t even have an album title yet and Cudi has been pushed back. Guess it’s just Big Sean and Quence now (and I’m only really checking for one of those albums).

  2. I just watched it again and had a thought.

    do you think Kanye was somehow selfconcious about the rest of the song?
    I mean “fuck SNL and their whole cast, tell em Yeezy says they can kiss my whole ass…”
    while dope, doesnt really lend itself to the “Sistine Chapel meets Dali’s Discovery of America meets the hell scenes from What Dreams Way Come” look they were going for, y’know?

    1. YES. The song itself is dope but when you get to all this heavenly real god-like stuff, he’s overdoing it. He has his issues but let’s be honest the freshest thing on everybody’s mind is taylor swift and this…this is overdoing it.

  3. This shit is dope as hell. It’s short(er) than we’d like but shit, most folks don’t have the attention span to watch a whole video anymore thanks to BET and MTV cutting shit short so they can talk anyway. The artistic license and effort used to make this video, astounding!

    and fuck Taylor Swift. She STILL reapin the benefits of Ye’s disruption. Victim? I think not.

    1. I cant disagree that its amazing SDub, I just LOVE some of the lines that come LATER in the song, y’know!? lol

      I mean, fuck SNL, now I’m drivin, do you have the power to let power go?, jumpin out the windooooow, when Ye stars lettin his voice get gritty…”nnnnnnnnnnNNNNNOW this’ll be a BEAUTIFUL death”

      all that stuff comes later in the song.
      I just wish they had run with the theme for at least 3:30/4:00 minutes, then in my mind, it’d probably be the best music video of all time. because those last few seconds when the cam pans out, and eveything is moving slow, kinda like a kaleidoscope….its breathtaking.
      its almost like a DXM/DMT trip

      as they left it to ME, it just feels like a teaser for something greater
      and maybe thats his album and its exactly what Ye wanted, I dunno

  4. i was high as shit when i first saw this vid so i thought i was trippin, but after watching it again with a sober mind i can say that this shit izzz hot! even tho this was short as hell i still dug it, and maybe thats a good thing that it was short, think about it at 3:00 we prolly wouldnt even see kanye no more and jus be lost in a mural of roman-greco influenced still pic art!

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