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The above 102-second clip from Kanye West, touting the sometimes-controversial, but generally all-kinds-of-awesome rapper’s new Symbolyc One-produced single made its debut on MTV last night–to massive results, blowing up all over the Internet within moments of its airing and spilling over quite nicely into conversational pieces this morning.
It’s a “moving painting,” West maintains of the clip–and, well, that’s tough to argue. But this much is: The song, in actuality, is over five minutes long. Gotta wonder how S1 feels about his song getting chopped.
Gotta wonder this, too: Could Kanye be launching a new era, where music videos serve as trailers for entire songs, rather than simply visual accompaniment? Maybe.
We’ve got a call into the Waco-based S1–whose ringback tone is “Power,” of course–to get his thoughts on the clip. We’ll update this post when we hear back.
