New Kanye West Video - "Stronger"
Kanye takes videos really, really seriously. And Hype Williams keeps it nothing but high-concept for "Stronger": The Daft robots monitor world events and tweak the settings on million-dollar-Kanye so he can be a harder, better, faster, stronger playa. Think about it: Only a bionic Kanyego could get away with those ventilated, venetian whiteglasses. May be a slowed-up Punk sample, but the clip's all about speed, from the blurry-fast motorcycle to the stutter-shot dancing West. And the Japanese military seems to be freaking out over all of this, probably 'cause they rightly fear Kanye is about to unleash the world's perfect pickup line: "There's a 1,000 yous but only one of me." Try it next time you're out! (But not to those Daft hands, unless you want "our work is never over" imprinted on your cheek.) Anybody wanna translate those subtitles?
Posted at 8:52 AM in Video
Tags: Daft Punk | Kanye West
rubbish! who buys this crap? and whats he goin on about? next!
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i'm just glad kanye didn't get a robot helmet.
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kanye should have just let daft punk remix the song themselves. it would have sound a million times better.
ah well.
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Crap. Visually it's too much "jaypoppish" for me. The video isn't anything we have seen like years ago and much better then this one. Like Interpol music videos: somebody call Gondry fast!
His music have been waaaay better too.
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Once I learned the klondike rhyme was used previously on a Late Registration track this song became way less impressive.
The video is nothing special either, looks like we are going to see him freak out again... I can't wait.
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could've been cool, but rappers can't give up on the shades 'n bling, huh?
i would've rather watched a hype williams daft punk video. in fact, it doesn't even have to be hype williams. i just want to watch daft punk. all the time.
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What a piece of shit!
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Not only did he rip off daft Punk, but has anyone sen the anime Akira? Half of the segments in that video are just reenactments straight out of the movie.
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"Hater n*ggas marry hater b*tches and have hater kids..."
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Am I the only one that think this is bad ass?
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bye denim sleeves
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big surprise, doesn't live up to kanye's hype. its alright. should've been more Thomas and Guy-Manuel doing roboty things.
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this video is awesome! kanye west is fucking COOOOOOOOOOOL! 50 million times better than the interpol one.
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You're right...this is totally Akira.
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i think it's pretty damn awesome.
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Look at the little dance he does at 2:33.
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Probably Kanye's best work by a longshot (I like the song/video a lot a lot), but the stereogum commentary always kills me.
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1) use the dailymotion.com version its much better
2) Finchmeister hits it on the spot. This place is like the Digg of music.
"HURRRR KANYE RIPPED OFF DAFT PUNK HURRRR"
well he made a video of it, i think he got the sample cleared, and Daft Punk aren't exactly studio masters themselves. I love 'em, but they sample as much and blatantly as anyone else.
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1. "you can be my black kate moss tonight"
2. "does anybody even make any real sh*t anymore"
I DON'T KNOW KANYE...DO THEY?!
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is that cassie? the video girl?
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This is the best Kanye parody that I have ever seen.
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good call thatoldsoul, dailymotion's has much better A/V. updated, thanks.
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Yes, it is a sendup of Akira. A groundbreaking anime film from 1989. I think that puts it within the realm of "sample-able." Actually I think they did a good job of it too, everything from the way the camera moves over the robot-medical machine to the colors in the hospital room were done faithfully and true to the original, as well as the color streaks from the motorcycles. Those who haven't seen the movie won't really get the imagery, and instead tie it in with the song, which works pretty well, and those (like me) who did see the movie will dig it and maybe not pay as much attention to the song.
I kinda dug the song though.
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Best review of this video I've read, especially the "Ventilated, venetian whiteglasses."
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It manages to be a hot song regardless of Kanye's trademark shitty rapping. The video is OK, although it's basically a declaration that he's essentially gone 100% pop. Hip hip heads might not dig it very much...which is all right because judging by the numbers, hip hop audiences don't appear to be buying records anymore anyway.
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Money hungry hypocrite. Freaks out on DP followers Justice, then someone clues him in that they won cause that's the hotness right now and he rips French disco like he knew about it all along. What a banal waste of talent he is, I hope that John Mayer clobber for publicity works out better for him
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Uh...not 100% sure, but I'm pretty damn sure the rainbow staircase where the chick is dancing is the Bathing Ape store in Tokyo
Which is like, sooooooo 1 year ago....
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TETSUO!!!
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Was it just my imagination, or did those storm troops have the Star of David emblazoned upon their gear? I thought the Japanese were after Kanye, not the International Jewish Conspiracy...
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i love how all of the comments on Kanye posts are techno freaks whining about how he ripped off daft punk and old people who don't understand why or how rappers make money. its typical stereogum.
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Kanye gonna sweep the hip-hop portion of the grammys again....this is LEGENDARY!
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How can an homage to AKIRA, La Jetee, and Tron with Daft Punk on board be SO shitty?
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Umm Venetian Blinds are vertical slits not Horizontal.
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daft punk is playing at my house, my house....and kanye's stuck in the closet
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I'm sorry, but why am I the only one who sees Kanye for what he is--this decades Puff Daddy.
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It's just kind of like, why listen to this when you can listen to Daft Punk's? It's better. I'm tired of hip-hop artists "sampling" songs and just throwing extra drums over the original and just rap over it. it's not creative or new at all and it usually adds up terribly.
People have stopped being creative with sampling.
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He's definitely this decade's Puff Daddy. Hopefully he'll follow suit and drop music altogether for extracurricular business endeavors within a couple years...
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Wow thats crap. Wait let me watch it again? Nope it's garbage. Kanye has spent a little too much time in France. All of the tracks that have been released so far are very French discotechque. I don't mean ironic or homage discotechque, I mean bad polyester jumpsuit, headband, "thank Christ we stopped making that music 20 years ago" discotechque. Now here we have Mr. West "rediscovering" terrible music and bringing it back.
By the way Kanye. Enough with the white sunglasses. It's not a trademark. It's retarded.
From what I've heard so far this album will definitely brick. Kanye will eventually blame the listeners for this impending flop and dissapear in a puff if white sunglasses and Louis Vitton.
Unfortunately we'll have a several months of watching him sulk (another trademark) before he finally leaves us the hell alone.
By the way for a supposed producer he doesn't hesitate to jack looooong samples from other musicians. Sampling is cool but when you're just karaoking to somebody else's song you aint' no producer.
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Naw, I know exactly how rappers make money, I work in the industry. That's what makes this stupid ass video even sadder. Touche to the Puffy sentiment too. To rehash something somebody did for controvercity and for the sake of well-planned marketing and brand-buidling TEN YEARS AGO? The layers of pathetic just pile on. Think of something new, jeebus
Besides which, Puff is kind of a dope producer without the samples. Kanye, well, just my opinion, is not. Prolific maybe, but, there's just about zero sentiment of punk-rock or intent to subvert the norm (as used to present in hip hop) belying the fact that his music is completely painful.
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Okay. This is ridiculous on so many different levels...but what comes to my mind first is:
What the hell is up with those sunglasses?!
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cool video, but the song is way too long and repetitive. what were they saying at the end?
oh yeah: "never over"
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I don't get it. Cam'ron and 50 release true cookie cutter 'I'm a Gangsta', 'Kill kill', 'b*tch, ho' crap and the one mainstream rapper who isn't really doing any of that still gets no love? What more do you want from the guy?
The video isn't the greatest thing I've ever seen but I liked it. It shows that mainstream hip-hop doesn't have to be all cocaine and drug references or 'snap' crap from the South.
Second, he didn't 'rip-off' Daft Punk. They cleared the sample and allowed him to do the song. He even goes so far as to pay homage to them in the video with the robot thing....hell that might even be them.
Third, he didn't rip-off Akira. He likes the movie and very obviously used it for a reference just like Hype used Madonna's "Frozen" as a reference for his last video.
I don't even like Kanye, but his music and his videos are way more progressive and innovative than most mainstream rappers these days.
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We actually spent a month making a replica of Kaneda's bike for that video. The damn thing ran on an electric Honda engine. Kanye seemed to think it did not meet his vision which is probably why I am not seeing it in the video. Ahh well, one moth of my life for naught.
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if sampling isnt an artform, you should be bashing daft punk as well. assholes
as well as the puff statement, puff is garbage. that bitch has no love for the music, considering the many making the bands, pepsi commercials, proactiv, and other bullshit he's been in, plus the other garbage artists he signs to his record label. you should be calling 50 the new puffy.
and if you have nothing good to say about something, then dont fucking bring it up.
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This Is great i really love this. cant wait till the cd comes out
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i dont know, this video would probably be cool if it didn't look so expensive. the way i feel about it is just like, wow, you spent all your money on this shit? i don't even really get what's going on.
the song doesn't really do too much for me. maybe i'm biased, though, because before i heard someone said "oh, kanye samples daft punk in his new single, you should check it out," so i was imagining how awesome it could be. when it turned out to not really be that awesome at all, well...
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Why are you people so angry this song is great and i wish they would put the video on itunes already.
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I actually really like it. I had never heard the daft punk version until i found out that kanye was sampling from it and I like both....even though I do enjoy Daft Punk's version more; I do belive Kanye did a good job.
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I actually really liked this song and also "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
Kanye didn't rip off Daft Punk. They signed off on the sample and were also in the video.
And for those saying he just rapped over they're song. The only sample was Daft Punk's chorus or hook i don't know what to call them because they are the only lyrics in the original song. I think people confuse it because the synthesized words have their own beat and rythym.
The Kanye version has a keyboard background or maybe synthesizer while the Daft Punk original has more of an instrumental sound. So Kanye isn't being original but not at all is he "ripping off" Daft Punk.
I don't think the cd will flop because the "hip hop" nation isnt Kanye's biggest supporter. Im not even sure it's his target audience, so whether they buy the cd or not...
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What the hell is this? This is music? I'm so sick of Kanye, especially after he said he belonged in the bible. What an arrogant, talentless little shmuck.
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For Sarah,
Below is the lyric that you are commenting about from a song titled "Late"
"Like them eskimos, what would you do for a Klondike?
Or two dykes that look Christina Milian like"
Couldn't see how you could be confused...
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This song is tight rap now adays is crap and his rap isnt that great but this song is catchy as hell like most of songs take it for what it is but I like the track
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kanye killed it in dis song collab wit daft punk,yea it is based on tetsuo from akira
n his jeremy scott shades are extremely rare if u find em call it a year,shit it took him 3 months jus 2 find it
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I think it's ace!
It sounded awesoem at that concert for Diana he did at the weekend, completely blew P Diddy out of the water.
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In reply to Morgan, Daft Punk samples in their work as well. In fact, almost ALL of their work is sampled from old electrofunk and disco-esque songs. For example, Harder Better Faster Stronger takes the background music DIRECTLY from Cola Bottle Baby by Edwin Birdsong.
LOTS of genres sample, not just rap. In Daft Punk's case, it's French House.
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hype williams is notorious for taking imagery from finer accomplishments and putting his own spin on it in his music videos. he's a hack.
watch his music video for no doubt's ex girlfriend, its a straight shot for shot rip off of the japanese anime kite. why do we celebrate directors who rip off other people's visions?
i was ready to criticize the sampling of daft punk in this song but since daft punk themselves appear in this music video, i feel it as a stamp of approval. However, i hate hip hop's dependence on sampling established hit songs. Of course this song will be a hit, besides kanye's star factor, the song it samples is already an established hit song internationally. The odds of this song succeeding in another community of music is pretty high, especially in the hip hop community where most people ignore all other genre's of music. If you ain't heard it, its new to you!
"nobody listens to techno' says eminem... that is unless you sampling it for a hit hip hop song. I give kanye credit for getting daft punk in the video. When swizz beats sampled daft punk for the busta rhymes atrocious hit song "Touch It" he never bothered acknowledging Daft Punk outside the liner notes and royalties.
Don't get me started on swizz beats though, the worst hip hop producer ever. Whats this about him sampling seven nation army for a new eve single this year? I sure hope jack white turns that shit down. I do have my fingers crossed.
Is there any hip hop producer out there willing to make a hot beat from scratch? It is the only way hip hop will evolve. I know kanye can do it, there should be at least a 20 year minimum wait to sample a song; in other words 'Gold Digger' was completely okay in my book. Anyone remember "Can't Believe" by Faith Evans? It sampled Dr. Dre's 'Phone Tap', a song that had only been released 4 years prior.
That said, this song is way better than touch it, since there is less emphasis on the daft punk sample and since daft punk gave more than their consent.
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shits hot man nuff said.
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are u lot on crack dis is a hevy tune
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kanye you the shit fuck what these people say they dont nuthen bout music they probably the same ones listen to soulja boy hurriican chris and lil webbie and boozie and all these waste of fucks that rap you the shit keep puttin out you going plat in a week watch im buying like 6 of them hoes hahah HIPHOP BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT STOP LISTENING TO IT ITS JUST ON REPEAT ALL DAY
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i hate sampling as well but i love kanye and i love this song. i dont know why people are shit talking about his sunglasses those are hot too. not everybody watches japanese movies or go to japan so sorry if its sooo 1 year ago. at least hype williams does something different in america where a lot of videos are the same.
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This comment is for Sarah and Blarf!...first of all, the video is HOT!!..think about what you're sayin!..he sampled?..SO WHAT!!..HE SAMPLED BUT HE ALSO INTRODUCED US TO A SOUND THAT MOST PEOPLE NEVER HEARD BEFORE...BEFORE THIS, AN ASS OF PEOPLE NEVER HEARDOF DAFT PUNK!!..KANYE FLOP??...YEAH RIGHT!!..THE TWO OF U ARE JUST SOME BALL LICKIN HATERS!..SARAH?..WHAT MAKES U SO KNOWLEGEABLE AND PERFECT??..U PROBABLY WORK AT BURGER KING!..AND "BARF"..THE SCREEN NAME U CHOSE "ALONE" JUST PERSONIFIES YOUR IGNORANCE!...I LOVE THE VIDEO AND THE SONG!..RESEARCH IS THE RESULT OF CREATIVITY!..HE KNOWS MUSIC!..PERIOD!...HOW MANY PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT THE MOVIE "AKIRA" BEFORE THIS SONG?? IF ANYTHING, HE DIDN'T HUMILIATE DAFT PUNK, HE DID THEM A FAVOR CAUSE THEY'RE THE PAST!..WHEN PEOPLE FIND OUT WHERE THE SAMPLE CAME FROM..THEY'LL GO AND BUY THEIR ALBUM!..I'M A RISING ARTIST MYSELF!..AND KANYE IS ONE OF THE PRODUCERS I PLAN ON WORKIN WITH!..HE'S AWESOME!..AND AS FOR BARF AND SARAH?...KANYE CAN BUY U BOTH!...PEACE!
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Don't know who wrote this, but i think someone didn't do their homework. First of all, the sample isn't from Daft Punk. . . even though they were the first to use it, they sampled it too. . from an old funk band. . which I won't mension, because you music snobs need to do your homework in the first place. . .haha. . and if you look at any Daft song you will clearly see that they have sampled everyone and their mom, so what is the big with kanye sampling daft punk? which i'll state again, he didn't really sample them. . he used the original. . if you are so curious and so pissed then you may need to do your homework yourself. otherwise, if you really wanna know i'll post the original track on here later.
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I kinda like it, but at least remixing or ....something, anything, to the original before rapping over it would have been much better
Oh and giving daft punk a little credit would be nice
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Kanye is boss for sure...I really like this song...I like daft punk too this song makes me pumped for sure haha
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i think this song is 1 of his best and the white striped sunglasses look amazzing and i would love to have a pair.
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this song is so fricken good!!!!
but the glasses hes wearing whats the name of it ?? the glasses looks cool... people says thats not in stores ore not for sell ??
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whaaaaaaaat? the sunglasses in this are unreal .. the song is quality too. And how did hee rip off daft punk? they worked with him in the makin of it
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i buy this "crap", bez. "rubbish"? yeah, the english know a lot about rap and hip hop, huh? get bent, limey. kanye west is sick!
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ok get a life people if u dont like the song dont listen 2 it dont complain about it like a bunch of morons i think the song is awsome and the video. GET A LIFE dont complain if u dont like it just dont listen
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The glasses are from Pastelle, his company...
here's a post:
http://kicksclusive.com/blog/?p=343
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These glasses are interesting to give a different view / alignment like asians have (see link):
http://www.sharp-sighted.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=153
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YOOUUUU B*TCHES ARE ALL F*CKIN HHHHHAAATTTEEEERRRRR GET A DAM LIFE YOU PUNK ROCK SUKERS WWOOO HHOOO WE ARE STORNGER WILL IM WIT U SHOOT THIS VIDEO IZ THE SH!T B3tTER REALIZE!!!! KANYE WEST IZ F IN PIMPIN 4 SURE
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Is this a I HATE KANYE WEST SITE??!!! he is a legend!!!! the video is amazing.. the sunglasses..i total wanna pair n the song iz absoloutely brilliant!!! He is amazing live n defo knows how 2 get a party started, this song live is awesome!! HE IS BRILLIANT!!! does any1 make real sh*t anymre?? Yeah KANYE WEST!!
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i think this is one of his best songs... alltohugh i think through the wire is the best... he did amazing job on this song and i hate rap but theres something different bout kanye west.... ohh I KNOW he dont talk about POPPIN caps in the n*iggas hes not even rap i think more like soul... he talks about his life experiences and makes them into beautiful songs... i think hes gonna change the way rappers rap... KANYE WEST 4 LIFE
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i love it.i love this song,love the video,and those shades are amazing!kanye's not like other rappers,thats what makes him stand out,whats gona make him last,and what makes fools come on here an bitch about it.kanye could say the alphabet over a sample and people would still buy it cuz he's hot and he could make it work.the louis vuitton don aint goin nowhere anytime soon,thank the lord for that!
p.s.anyone no wer i can get me a pair of those shades?lol.
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I'm a Japanese guy and a Hip Hop listener so personally I was able to understand the video in aspects that otherwise is hard to understand.
The music video is based off the movie "Akira", an anime classic. The blurry Motorbikes was the scene at the begging of the movie, the scene of him in the hospital is also a scene from the movie, the scene where he's lying down with the round things another scene so on.
The Japanese Katakana that pops up are usually used in foreign words.. or often in Anime (especially in those fonts). But the words that are written is plain gibberish or at times it does makes sense but has some spelling errors and so on. This video has been filmed in Shibuya and Shinjuku of Japan.
Anyways just some random information for y'all
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The Stronger video is wack. A half-ass try at Akira anime. Kanye West just proved he ain't nothing but a flash in the pan. NEXT.
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yeah, he already said,what would you do for a klondike or two dikes who look...
step ur game up ...damn kid
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why are so many people haters??? honestly do any of you have a video on MTV or a song on the radio or a
CD in the store? probably not
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LOVE THIS SNOG
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WAH... WAH... WAH...
Shut the fuck up already... Why the hell are there so many people stuck on Kanye and whatever's he's doing. SO THE FUCK WHAT!!! He's rich as hell and you all aren't, APPARENTLY, he's doing something right!
Damn, criticize and analyze your own damn lives and then when you all are rich oneday... come back and talk YOUR SHIT!
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Thank You... Good Day mates...
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Kanye is an entertainer. I think the song itself is cool. It sounds good in a club and makes people dance, period. It's really not meant to do anything more.
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Love him or hate him, there is no denying that this is an awesome video for an awesome song. It is a refreshing change from all the crap videos that get played every day.
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for fuk sake he di not rip it off look daft punk maked the music and the background lyrics and they r in the vidio and kanye made the lyrics so for fuk sake get a lyf
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Robert, I just had to say this
First of all, ALL CAPS ON TEH INTERNETS IS FOR ATTENTION STARVED RETARDS AND EMO LJ'ERS.LOLKTHNX
Secondly, you have no idea what you are talking about. Anyone that can claim to like French House has heard of Daft Punk. Daft Punk is not esoteric because I first heard them six years ago on the radio while I was on an airplane. I wont mention my age, because I don't need you myopically judging me based upon it, but I was fairly young and if I heard it then with my limited interest in music, anyone that wasn't living under a rock has heard them too. Also, a certain American TV show introduced them around the same time, so you would've seen it even if you didn't enjoy obscure genres.
The same goes for Akira. It was one of the most important contributions to cyberpunk. Once again, despite not even being born at the time it was released I have read and seen it as have several other people I know who aren't mildly interested in Anime.
PLEASE, do not generalize the mass populace and synonmize their experience with your's or lack thereof. Daft Punk and Akira did not need anyone to discover them and it is an insult to characterize them as being below Kanye who probably has never even heard of cyberpunk. Also, your pathetic attempt to use words that you don't understand is humorous. It's either that or your hilarious try at personifying barf as ignorant. It's disgusting, not ignorant. Ignorant would be you.
If you were able to wrap your intellectually limited cranium around anything that wasn't aired on TRL, you might actually able to provide a decent argument defending Mr.Prenup.
Furthermore, to further demonstrate your idiocy, your comparison of someone's wealth to their superiority is absurd. Just because Paris Hilton makes more money than you doesn't mean she's smarter or more skilled, does it?
In fact, people with money that splurge it on needless shopping sprees and fucking their fellow human beings over the majority of whom cannot even afford to dri