Kanye West released his new
interactive video Black Skinhead on Monday and wasted no time getting to
graphic imagery. The black-and-white avant-garde video opens with the image of
three black men wearing pointy black Ku Klux Klan-like hoods with eye cutouts. Barking
dogs show up next in fast-cutting scenes followed by images of bald men with
their backs to the viewer. The 36-year-old rapper soon bounces into the video
in computer-generated form shirtless and wearing a large chain. The video was
released on the singer's website kanyewest.com and
was presented by Donda, the singer's creative agency named after his late
mother. The video made its debut
online and featured an interactive element that allowed users to slow down or
speed up the tune and its corresponding images.
The video also enables
watchers to click a button to capture still images of the video.
Knight recently
photographed the controversial rapper in an artsy spread for W magazine. Knight
in 2001 directed his first video for Björk for her song Pagan Poetry and in
2011 directed the video for Lady Gaga's single Born This Way.
Kanye was furious earlier
this month when an unfinished video for Black Skinhead was leaked online. The
singer posted six angry messages on Twitter insisting websites remove the rough
draft and also cursed the person who leaked it.
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