Hope you guys enjoyed the pizza party. We’re a little bummed Twin Shadow lost Best Swagger Coach, but at least we got to see Ke$ha in the trash bag she deserves. As a reward for sitting through the whole thing was this eye-catching performance from Twitter’s Kanye West, who we haven’t heard from in a while. (Isn’t it weird none of the VJs even mentioned Twitter?). For the plinky toast to douchebags and assholes, Yeezy sported a cherry red suit and got assistance from “Good Friday” cohort Pusha T and a bunch of ballerinas.
There’s also this arty short video to promote it.
RIP Chelsea Handler.
UPDATE: BTW, here are the 2010 MTV VMA winners:
Best Collaboration: Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce Knowles – “Telephone”
Best Female Video: Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
Best Male Video: Eminem – “Not Afraid”
Best Hip-Hop Video: Eminem – “Not Afraid”
Best New Artist: Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris – “Baby”
Best Pop Video: Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
Best Rock Video: 30 Seconds to Mars – “Kings and Queens”
Best Dance Music Video: Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
Video of the Year: Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
Best Art Direction: Florence and the Machine – “Dog Days Are Over”
Best Choreography: Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
Best Cinematography: Jay-Z & Alicia Keys – “Empire State of Mind”
Best Direction: Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
Best Editing: Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
Best SFX (Special Effects): Muse – “Uprising”
Breakthrough Video: The Black Keys – “Tighten Up”
UPDATE 2: Funkmaster Flex dropped the CDQ…
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“Certainly the most poetic chorus of our time…” – Mark Zuckerberg
Agreed !
If nothing else Kanye is always fantastically interesting. Also, this was a great performance visually. Nowhere near his best beats and lyrics are hackneyed as ever, but whatever I liked it.
Weak stuff
Pretty cool to have just him and the sampler up there as a (not so) subtle way of telegraphing that he makes the beats and isn’t some talentless hack.
I agree with Bobby Strobeck. Would love to see Kanye build a live show round just him, an SP12 and a mic. Totally psyched for the new album, more and more
The beat for Runaway sounds like Mezzanine era Massive Attack…….and the live sampler was the best part, I mean who’s done that in mainstream hiphop since Gang Starr?? NOBODY. This is kanye’s triphop song, this kanye’s more experimental album. BON IVER! I think he just needs Grinderman on a track, and he’s good to go.
instant classic
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nice beat, sounds a bit familiar tho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1FDZIX0q5k
You realize that thousands of rap and downtempo producers (especially in the 1990′s) used those drums right? Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zKtYL_0yoI
One of my favorite “trip-hop” tracks ever. And I still love when people use it. Props to Kanye. I’ll assume that the studio mix will sound much better though.
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Can’t believe this video is getting all these bads comments. Visuals were great. A standard kanye performance.
ouch. that “singing” voice. the lyrics are ridiculously bad, but i guess we shouldn’t be surprised since kanye west admits to not reading books. ugh ugh ugh. why does anyone follow this guy’s output ?
I havent even watched this video yet, I’m still trying to decyfer what is written above it. Who wrote that garbled mess? Its almost jibberish. You are very very lucky that the internet exists. Cos otherwise you’d be fucked
It would be unfair of me to critique, as I was forced to stop watching just halfway through, due to shear boredom.
lord,lord,lord
Thumbs up if you agree that Kanye is overrated and sampling is the only way he’s been able to get by. (Btw, my first official comment on stereogum ever)
Thumbs down
Shame on you Kanye, you think you can steal ideas from an obscure band. Check this out
http://blip.fm/profile/dronedream/blip/54353944/LALI+PUNA+Middle+curse
Kanye west did it again, i can related to this song cuz im a asshole nd duchessbag Lol!!!!!! I’m Azzhole by nature
AMAZING !.. Who ever left a negative comment about this is just a hater on real art. Kanye West is genius. He sees everything in a different light. Embrace his difference.
Ya`ll is dumbass young boyz, an if u 35 or older u was a kat that had Candyman- knockin boots in ya
collection…..this beat wasnt stolen….in fact all ya`ll haters and dummies who think u kno MUSIC (not jus hip hop), but lets say ya `ll call ya selves sum supa dupa dockie hip hop heads
then!!!!!!!!!!! ya kno he payin homage to a LEGENDARY producer, which in less then 20yrs, Ye gonna be talked about in the way i`m a bout to spit this producers name
ITS PETE ROCK idiots……which is a producer on the new Lp
an REAL plp who kno MUSIC, love when given the chance to use an work wit, LEGENDS, kats u completely admired, an hit rewind ON THE DECK, and POPPED ya tape, and took that hr to get it out of the pincher in the deck an then get tape and splice it back togetha, and wind it back up all perfect like( as close as u can), and even tho it skipped and sounded like shit fo a min, u was greatfull,
anyway its a interlude bout 18 to 30 seconds long on the “
MECCA AND SOUL BROTHA ” Lp
a KLAAAAAAASICK!!!!!!! lp frm the era of kats who knew what they was doin and if Ye was back then ya`ll be talkin bout who stole from him
he aint steal shit…..he sampled a STOOOOOOOOOOOOPID ridiculous beat
PETE ROCK MADE, not these plp how sampled pete rock and then Ye sampled these plp you dummies wrote on here
GET YA HISTORY correct
step ya game up younganz
and bein young aint no scuse for givin negative critequez and be wrong on top of that an lettin an “OL` HEAD” skooll ya`s
MECCA AND THE SOUL BROTHA
the MASTA of the SP-12
and for ya dummies who have a thirst for “LEARNIN”
which I KNO ya DO…..ya must if ya be shootin off dumb and wrong info
shutup sitback an LEARN
(where PETE RIZZZZOCK sampled the beat from)
“Expo 83- by The Backyard Heavies”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ70gCx0H4
dammyuuuuuuuuum
an i dnt take pride in this at all
im ashamed of a generation of wackass younguns who aint shit….step ya game up
yugunz, cuz us OL HEADS wld luv to POLY wit ya`ll as did OUR pops and unk`s did wit us, that how ya`ll got “this thing of ours”
HIP HOP
HOMIES
wit much LUV, and waitin for ya`ll to NOW KNO that KANYE is a FORCE
who put in work homies and thats why theresa SONG TO TOAST US
cuz thats F`N GENIUS to turn the table and REALLY SPEAK HIS MIND and not APOLOGIZE, but instead
TOAST THOSE OF US WHO WLD HAV DONE THE SAME {RESPONCE FOOLS…..hahahaha!!!!!}
annnnnnnnnd on top of that TOAST A LEGEND IN HIP HOP ALL IN THE SAME BREATH…..BOW DOWN
DAVID FOX
johan_jiju19
Harold Ramos …STRCKLY FOR BEING THAT DUMB, HE THOUGHT he WAS BEING, hey im AN obscure ART FART….U IS WACK
AND ALL THE REST OF YA WHO THINK U KNO SUMTHIN
STEP YA GAME…….YA COCKSMOKERS