FIRST. LOVE THIS JOINT

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Music Vid seemed low budget :/

whats the point of the video?

good song, video bad

Wop Wop

I like this joint. Seem like he was trying to convey that his life is still barren.

# 3 Low Budget? WTF Yeah Right!
Maaaan this is my SH*T!!!! Kanye is my dude even more now!!! This joint is too tight! Him and HYPE did it big

I’m number 7 (8, or 9 etc..etc)!! HOOTIE HOOOOO!

I had to turn off that vid after about a minute..It was beyond wack and needs to be re-done with Jeezy going “YEAH!!” and “HA HA!!!”.. Momma West rocking her new book from side to side..Plus you got to have cameos by Common and Lupe.. Chicago MAYNE!

i kinda like the message (im diggin deep to catch it) as 4 the vid…not one of my fav’s~

Hold on one second as I press play one more time cause that can’t be the whole video it just can’t be!! Too bad Jacob the Jeweler doesn’t invest in music videos huh Kanye?

Whoa.

Actually I am really feeling the video. It’s more like Art than CRAP. Originality, PASS IT ON. lol Thanks Kanye for doing ya thing without the normal visual aids entertainers seem to feel like they have to have in their videos. Oh yeah & the joint is hot too!!

This is tight,Ye is definitely bringing that fire with Graduation,can’t wait for the album to drop.

Chea!

LUV THIS SONG!!!

i luv the song!!

i think the video is GOOD. its simple, but deep… and like #13 FyreStarrter said, its more art than crap.
that blue light, sand, smoke, the part in the end with the car takin turns, the fluttering piece of cloth, n the girl’s hair…..plus good lyrics n Kanye’s nice flow.
i like it very much.

i love this song. was driving around playing this earlier today. lol. didn’t know there was a video to this.. the video doesn’t seem low budget. kanye usually has a lot going on in his videos. this one is just too simple for what we usually see from him.

I likey the track, but the video…not so much. Pointless.

I guess it’s okay. how could you sing sbout somethin, but speak about nothing ( speaking of is arrogance) Newayz I guess thats what makes you a good artist sometimes. *Rolls eyes*

I love the video and the song. The video may seem low budget so u can focus on his lyrics which are bangin!

At least the video is not in a club scene with half naked ladies shakin their booties everywhere.

I hate to express my ego in such a profane manner, but I was the first one to have the got damn video in my blog! Fuck this shit! Anyways! Kanye is a master at his craft! The video is such an canvas of art, you have to find the point that is being made , by your own interpretation! I’m gald to see something that is simple but complex at making the mind investigate it’s meaning at the same time!

Much props to Kayne!

THANK YOU, #21… ya’ll don’t like it cuz there is no big booty hoes and bangin whips in it? That’s lame.

As much as I try not to like Kanye’s corny, arrogant ass I can’t be mad when he comes out with shit like this.

Is video is cheap cos’ Kanye didn’t put out a bunch of half naked girl? This video is very artistic and the track is dope.
Brother is doing something different and i am appreciating this guy’s more and more. Keep it up Mr. West,i can’t wait for your joint to drop.

CHEAP should be nowhere in this thread! Yall know HYPE WILLIAMS? Those two don’t go together.

Track is hot ! U focus more on his message and how U relate to it as a individual ….. sorry no big asses shaking . But we have plenty of videos with that ! Looking forward to the album !!!!!!

This track is fire. Who he sampled the vocals from though?

@ #20….that’s a good perspective to take….cause the video kinda sucks.

I like this track, cool video.

Woah I love it !!

Finally some subtance

i’m so lame, but i didnt really understand a lot of what he was talking about

i actually liked the video, though
i liked how he moved and the girl with the black thing moved, yep

great song but the video have no concept.

i could get behind the song
and the video isnt wack it’s just simple so that we focus moe so on the words coming out of his mouth

having said that does anyone else think that the girl’s motions in the video are reminiscent of the the girl in the movie 300?

1. BOTH THE VIDEO & SONG ARE DOPE

2. WHY IS THE VIDEO DOPE U ASK? BECAUSE UR (FOR ONCE) GETTING TO FOCUS ON HIS LYRICS & NOT ASSES IN THE AIR

3. HYPE WILLIAMS & HIS MUSIC VIDEOS ARE NEVER- I MEAN NEVER, A LOW-BUDGET DEAL… TRUST!

4. AND EVEN IF THE VIDEO CAME ACROSS AS LOW-BUDGET, THAT WOULD BE SYNONYMOUS WITH THE LYRICS TO THE SONG…

BOTTOMLINE: HE IS SAYING THROUGHOUT THE SONG & THE VIDEO THAT HE STILL HAS THIS VOID IN LIFE. SIMPLICITY, NOT MONEY IS THE KEY TO HAPPINESS.

*whew*

MAN I LOVE THIS SHIT HERE!!!! KANYE HAS A MASTER MIND!!!

FOR THE IDIOTS TALKING ABOUT THE VIDEO IS LOW BUDGET IS CRAZY!!! THE VIDEO IS SIMPLE SO YOU FOCUS ON THE DEPTH OF HIS LYRICS.

I’M MOST DEF GONNA COP THAT “GRADUATION”!!!

Just because someone doesn’t care for the video doesn’t mean:

1) It’s because there are no naked video “ho’s” in it;
2) It’s boring;
3) That the person doesn’t have the capacity to appreciate “art.”

Give me a break. Can’t we accept differences of opinion and leave it at that?

dope as shit…

love the song…but wtf is tha video doin????

Hot track!

THIS IS WHY YOU BLACK PEOPLE ARE SO FAR BEHIND WHITES?
YOU CANT APPRECIATE ART! YOU THINK JAYZ LUDA CHRIS 50 CENT AND LITTLE JOHN ARE ARTIST LOL THEY ARE FOOLS
THAT MAKE THE WHOLE BLACK RACE LOOK IGNORANT
ANDHERE YOU HAVE A MAN THAT APRRECIATES ART IS CLEARLY THE BEST AT WHAT HE DOES AND YOU DOWN TALK HIM
YOU DONT WANT WHITE PEOPLE TO CALL U N*GGERS BUT YOU LOOK TO IGNORANCE FOR GUIDANCE..IM GLAD IM WHITE BECAUSE IT MUST BE HARD BEING BLACK. I FEEL SORRY FOR KANYE HE STUCK HIS NECK OUT FOR YOU GUYS AND YOU STILL DISRESPECT HIS ART!

KANYE WEST IS MY FAVORTIE RAPPER HANDS AND FEET DOWN…HE GETS ON REAL -ISH…REAL -ISH…HE’S A REALIEST! MAYBE MOST FOLK IN THE WORLD NEED TO WAKE FROM THIS FANTASY AND JUST COME BACK TO SOME REAL-NESS. STOP BEING IN SUCH A COMATOSE MIND SET!

hahahaha

i love the majority of the posts who actully saw that Kanye wanted the video stripped bare bones and wanted the focus on him and his lyrics and the content of his meaning. I mean he used a contach an 80’s lamborghini and not a gallardo or murcielago both 2007 models, does anybody understand that? He can afford all the latests shit and stripped himself bare. Wicked! Nice to know what the games been missing. This album is going to be a lot more revealing than we originally thought. Please listen to his lyrics carefully.

hahahahahaha

Damn this shit is hot yo! But what else do you expect from Kanye..? Thats m dude man. He’s a prodigy. I love him. And I love how simple this video is. Go Kanyeeeee!

I thought it was just me who saw the artsy-fartsy quality in the video. More than anything else, it helped me realize what he was talking about minus all the flash and flare considering I didn’t like the song before the video. I like it now, song’s not so bad.

And for the record, he only sampled Jeezy. Amy Winehouse’s voice was just made to SOUND LIKE a sample. Even that part I liked despite the fact he didn’t give her the opportunity to do more, but it’s not like we don’t already know she’s tough.

I’ll have to hear another song to be convinced I’ll like it enough to buy.

hahahaha

i love the majority of the posts who actully saw that Kanye wanted the video stripped bare bones and wanted the focus on him and his lyrics and the content of his meaning. I mean he used a contach an 80’s lamborghini and not a gallardo or murcielago both 2007 models, does anybody understand that? He can afford all the latests shit and stripped himself bare. Wicked! Nice to know what the games been missing. This album is going to be a lot more revealing than we originally thought. Please listen to his lyrics carefully.

hahahahahaha

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Exactly. The video translates well the lyrics.

well = with

THE TRACK WAS HOT…THE VIDEO NOT…THIS LOOKS LIKE YOUR TYICAL HYPE WILLIAMS BULLSHIT…WHY IS HE IN THE HOT ASS DESERT SINGIN ABOUT GET HIS MONEY UP?….THIS VIDEO IS GETTING ME PARCHED…I NEED A DRINK!!!

AND # 45 SHUT YA OVER-INTUITIVE ASS UP!!! THERE WAS NO KIND OF SUBLIMINAL MEESAGE IN THIS VIDEO… JUST A NEGRO SINGIN IN THE HOT ASS DESERT!!!

I like the track…at least there werent 100 half naked women dancing around him and money being throw everywhere

wwhaat can ya believe this douche?lookin like a retard mute nigga! eehhh cannt tell..learn to talk!
and hes gayer than goddamn clay aiken: note to douche-shut the fuccckk up and go have some chicken!

ugly motha!

I got respect for kanye but I was saying the video is boring, thats all, I don’t want to see a video with chicks in a bikini but it could’ve been different, the song is crzy tho i really like

Folks, let’s give credit where credit is due. Kanye is always on some different stuff, that’s one of the reasons why he has stood out like he does. Also the track was done by DJ Toomp(T.I., Jeezy, etc) Ya’ll be easy!:o)

I am loving the metaphors for isolation/desert/desolation and death/wind/dance. Art is supposed to be evocative. I love the song and video.

Can he ever produce a track, with out stealing the hook from an old song?

hm, for some reason i like this song.

wtf? c’mon kanYe….

btw…at least there aren’t a bunch of video gurls in it…it was just…boring?

I have to co-sign with #40 even though I won’t be as blunt. On one hand, people cry when rappers use the same formula of money, cars, clothes and hoes to produce successful singles and videos. Then when a rapper puts the emphasis on content in term of their lyrics, and symbolism within their video, you call it boring?

The reason why rap is struggling with a identity crisis now is because there is no diversity to the art from and the artists are failing to grow up with their core fans. I can love and appreciate “Buy U A Drank” and “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” Sometimes I want to simply be entertained, and sometimes I want to be infotained. If hip hop is to survive another 30 years then we, the fans, have to encourage, appreciate and support diversity within it. I hope we’re not some monolithic culture like the Republican party.

I too viewed the vid as art…LOVED IT Kanye!

They can’t tell you NOTHIN!

Hate to say it, but Kanye has been the most consistent rapper in the past 5 years or so!

I like the vid and the song. The video definitely allowed me to listen to what he was saying and it is a breath of fresh air from all the other trash rap music videos today. Definitely a peice of artistic vision.

#55 : ditto. i heard the veresion with jeezy. i like that even more.

#40…if IGNORANCE & STUPIDITY wasn’t popular you would be a trend setter…you know NOTHING of what it means to be BLACK….or anything about hip hop.

You diss LUDA and JIGGA??? Kanye = Jigga’s prodigy… LUDA and JIGGA are showing white people what BLACK is… you dumb fuck

People look at blacks and see the baggy jeans, jewelry, etc and think that we’re arrogant and stupid…you think the container defines the content… and it doesn’t… you dumb fuck

and we don’t need your sympathy…being black is wonderful you dumb fuck…

and while you’re feeling sorry for Kanye I’m pretty sure that if he read your comment he’d agree with me that you’re pretty stupid.

you dumb fuck
^^I’m so consistent

#40 you are a fool for typing in all caps.

@48 Reggie:

Don’t be madd I got it and you didn’t its okay son, you won’t catch everything first time. But listen to the song a little closer. Kanye is on the same team as Jay Z. See son, Jay Z always is flashy and uses fresh shit, a bit like the Excelron Maybach in the lost one videos, where Kanye ‘deliberately’ goes in other avenues (not because he cant because he can) and rocks it and says to ignorant people like you:

“can’t tell me nothing”

MAN,THIS IS WHY HIP HOP AIN’T DEAD, THAT BEAT IS HARD AS F, PLUS HE NICE ON THE MIC!!!!! GRADUATION AIIGHT
TIANA IS THE FINEST ONE

Love the song and the video is lukewarm but As we all know Kanye comes out with that fire and his cd graudation is gonna be hot hands down!

Anybody hatin on this song need they ass whooped.

This song is soooo damn FRESH!!!!!

Good job Kanye.

The song is alright, I’m just a person who is not all in to that sampling and he overuses sampling it starting to become unoriginal.True hip-hop, no I don’t think, but I don’t know what to think of the video its ok I guess.

I’ve never really listened to a Kanye song the first time around and loved it, but this I love. I’m a Lil’ Wayne type of girl but Kanye just earned himself a new fan with this. I’ve deemed it my anthem for the summer!!

#21 is right, he could of easily made a booty shakin video, but he didnt, and how is a hype williams video low budget, he demands a lot of doe to direct, kanye dropped stacks just to get hype to direct, so get outta here wit that cheap video sh*t, dis video and song is raw, chicago mane!!!!haha!

Fuck the haters. Only a true Kanye fan could love this video and I think we all show our appreciation well.

Truly feeling this song, I am bump this!! Yep he stepped the game up! LA LA LA LA, you ca’t tell me nothing.

Inventive and he presses the envelope.
He doesn’t follow anyone’s style and that alone shows a great deal of confidence in what you want to say.

“you can’t tell me nothing right….”