The music video for Kanye West's latest single "Black Skinhead" may give you nightmares, and that may be just what Yeezus intended.
West recently launched the disturbing new video - renamed "BLKKK SKKKN HEAD" - to his official website, the animated black-and-white graphics depicting a CGI-version of West dancing and writhing around to the beat along with snarling black wolves lashing at the screen and black hooded men wearing what eerily resembles Ku Klux Klan robes. Even the cursor onscreen becomes a tiny hand with a pointed middle finger, a big "f**k you" to the audience that seems to match the whole vibe of the uncanny video.
According to Vibe, the animation for the video took a total of five months to create, and was directed by photographer/director Nick Knight who helped the "New Slaves" video that West had projected on walls all over the world to promote his new music. An unfinished version of the video was leaked earlier this month, much to West's dismay, as he soon took to Twitter to rant about the early leak.
"BLKKK SKKKN HEAD" is the first radio single off of West's sixth studio album, "Yeezus," which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 last month.
West first premiered "Black Skinhead" during a live performance on SNL, some of the imagery from his new video like the snapping and snarling wolves ("I'm aware I'm a wolf/Soon as the moon hit") having appeared in the background projection.
Click here to watch the music video for "Black Skinhead," renamed "BLKKK SKKKN HEAD" for the video, and click here for an interactive version of the video.
