I saw this earlier today and wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. Now, courtesy of The Daily Swarm, it now all has meaning…somewhat. Kanye & Spike Jonze, currently riding high off a smash weekend for Where The Wild Things Are, originally filmed this for 808′s… but it grew (||) into a short film.

In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing in the club is his. He wanders into a side room where he encounters a beautiful woman. They start having sex and then he passes out on her leopard print dress. When he comes to, he finds himself in the VIP room with his pants down – he was hallucinating and fucking the pillow. The realization startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where he vomits what look like rose petals.

Then it gets weird.

Kanye finds a bowie knife in the bathroom and cuts into his stomach, spilling a torrent of more petals. He digs in the knife deeper and then with his hand rips out a small furry rodent, like a demon, only its quite cute. When Kanye realizes it’s connected to him with an umbilical cord, he pulls it hard, ripping it out of him for good. He then puts the demon on the sink and hands him a tiny bowie knife to fit the critter’s scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.

Good to see Kanye having to reach deep inside to pull off the character for this. Nobody does a Kanye West impersonation better than Mr. West. I keed I keed.

I actually like the idea and the execution. Talk about all the Hype’s and Rik’s you want. If I ever create a song, I want Spike Jonze to create me a tripped out visual. I can remember his work being cutting edge ever since I used to read little skateboard mags as a likkle yardie.