Why yeezus is brilliant

He says a lamp by Le Corbusier, the French master, is his greatest inspiration. West is a fashion designer and has a full-time creative director, Chicago architect Virgil Abloh, on his staff.

West's live shows brilliantly fuse his many visions, from the lighting and set designs to the costumes he wears. Has there ever been? Pop music is a recognized art form. As for West, yes he can be abrasive and impulsive. He has a massive ego. But what do we expect from our larger-than-life figures — they should be nice?

Welcome back to Chicago, Kanye. West had alternated throughout the night between several different masks, some of them bejeweled, others looking much darker, as if they were once worn by the evil villain in a gory movie about a massacre. But one of the rawest moments of the show was at the beginning of his final act, after Yeezus met a Jesus lookalike and finally took off his mask during "Jesus Walks," a hit from his College Dropout album days.

The crowd went bonkers. When Kanye was backed up by a group of women who looked naked but, surprisingly enough, were not. Kanye West's backup dancers were the weirdest and most simultaneously awesome thing I've seen since I saw Cirque Du Soleil for the first time in Starting at the beginning of the show, these women wearing full, nude bodysuits and nylon covers over their heads served as Yeezy's assistants, whether they were holding fire-bearing sticks on top of a mountain at the end, or lifting West into the air as he let out tribal barks during "I Am A God.

Black Skinhead Yeezus, Kanye West was illuminated by a single beam of light while one of the best songs on his latest album was belted, a man on a circular screen looking on in the background.

Black Skinhead is dark on the album, and serves as a haunting reminiscence of race in American history. But in concert, Black Skinhead comes alive.

With West behind the safety of his mask, he holds nothing back while stomping across a triangular stage and writhing in what looks to be pain. Power My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, After a slow-talking, female narrator introduces Rising, the second act Fighting was the first , a shirtless but mask-bearing Ye rises from behind a massive mountain on the stage.

From down below, it looks as if he's surrounded by the clouds, and yelling down to the mortals below. It was dark, it was eerie and it was almost disturbingly emotional. Coldest Winter s and Heartbreak, After the first part of the show was decidedly marked by anger, Kanye leveled with his fans, telling them that the hit "Coldest Winter" was a tribute to his mother who died. This is a problem in far too much hip-hop criticism: This is an art form that sprang from the word, and the word remains integral to appreciating it.

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