Kanye West new Daft Punk influenced Album sends Saturday Night Live Crowd into frenzy
The follow up Album to 2010's My Dark Twisted Fantasy, some
would say dark, others confrontational with indicators of revolution. Debuting
his two new songs: "Black Skinheads" and "New Slaves" on 66
buildings around the world, including London, Paris, Berlin, Syndey, and several cities in the U.S.,some has also accredited him as a marketing genius.
With a striking close up of his face in black and white, and a backdrop of
images of dogs barking and looming shadows all around, Kanye aggressive lyrical
content pinned the audience to listen to the controversial message.
After much careful thought of the albums
title, Kanye West finalized it as "Yeezus". Both songs grabbed and
captivated the listeners with thought provoking and racially hinted lyrics,
indicating subjects such as social stratification(segregation of education and
quality of the businesses within our community), racial and economic
repression, social control through media and the private prison industry. All
of which has proven to degenerate society. Laid over hard rock and
electro-shock beats, this new sound is West's most mystifing music he has
produced.
Performing at Saturday Night Live on May 18th,
Kanye sent the audience into a frenzy as both songs worked the crowd over with
mixed signals, as the audience is probably not able to understand their
own emotional reactions to the songs. West has worked with this class of
electronic music for many years, with stars like Daft Punk, most notably for
the Tron: Legacy and Tron: The Uprising soundtracks, who's Billboard forecast is heading for the No.1 album on it's Billboard 200 chart.
Taking a closer look at the lyrics, in "Black Skin Head",Kanye seems to be making references about being a black man and dating a white woman and the stand against the hostility of society protesting that relationship. This could be a backlash from some of the negative stigma that he may have received from his relationship with Kim Kardashian. In "New Slave", you see a mixed message of 1) The wealth disparity, as a result to global economic restructuring that is pushing the less educated and less skilled, less educated into an economic disadvantaged situation, compounding poverty, crime, incarceration, welfare dependency, rise of unemployment and physical isolation primarily among black americans. and 2) an answer to the resentments coming from the political conscious community that has always struggled against the negative messages in hiphop. It's clear that he is making a statement that he knows that "we the new slaves!" Word that he plan a tour of the record soon after its release. That reportedly created a disturbance with girlfriend Kim Kardashian expecting to give birth to their first child in July. It has also been expected that they will join Kanye on the road. Graduation, 808,s and Heartbreak and Dark Twisted Fantasy has all hit No.1 on Billboard 200 and sold 1,00,000 copies domestically.
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