The other day Kanye West released the video for his much anticipated single "All of the lights", a song that we love here at officialhype. But quite frankly, the video sucks. Hype Williams' name is only there...to hype the video up from lower tier mediocrity. There isn't much there, Kanye standing on a police car, Rihanna almost topless, close ups of Kanye, little girl walking outside,flat out copy of cool Gaspard Noé's title sequence , Kid Cud- wait what?
The coolest part of the video are the words of the song appearing on the screen. They're dope, too bad it's completely unoriginal. The link in the first paragraph are the amazing opening credits for Gaspard Noé's film "Enter the void".
Now this makes me wonder, it is well known that almost every Kanye song uses a sample from a different song, whether it be a vocal, drum, guitar, bass w/e. Take for example his single "Runaway" from his latest album "My beautiful dark twisted fantasy" , the whole beat is basically Pete Rock & Cl Smooth's intro to the song "The Basement".It's well documented and credited so nobody's pays much attention to it because they're from lesser known songs so people don't necessarily see it. But when you see it and notice it from the beginning, it dissapoints greatly. So, Kanye's whole career and sucess has heavily relied on taking stuff from other people, put his own little twist and branding it his own. The thing that really bothered me of that video is when the words start and we see Kanye West's and Hype Williams' name for a long period, they are branding the video, they are saying this is their creation, while in reality they ripped off another creator, kinda like Andy Warhol did. So is it fair to say that Kanye's the Warhol of our generation? Let your voices be heard in the comments section below.
Here's the video
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