@@YantoWest not necessarily true. There are many artists now that make half their album the week before. for example, kanye did that with donda. he re recorded and partially rewrote half of the album
It’s not experimental at all it’s when he became friends with Marilyn Manson. It’s him rapping over a Manson style/Pigface beat. I’m not dissing him for that, he’s a great artist. But he went from defending paedophile MJ to hanging with rapist and abuser Manson, and now he’s hanging around with men accused of worse. I don’t understand how someone apparently so intelligent can keep such bad company.
This performance was before Yeezus was released, so I can't imagine expecting more My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and getting this aggressiveness. Understandable why people didn't like it, but holy smokes, looking back this is one of Kanye's best performances of all time. He was way ahead of the times
❤❤ how old are you? 🙏🏽 - this was 2012, at 28, it feels like yesterday, the emotional experience still resonates. What's profound about this run was the tour though. Like Michael Jackson's bad tour - it will be remembered forever
I remember going to Kanye West concert in Malaysia years ago, small crowd of say 300 or so, but he still rocked it for over two hours. Crowd was wild in response. Concert to remember. West rocks it when he wants.
Came here to rewatch this after discovering a letter that Bono (U2) wrote to Kanye regarding this performance. Literal goosebumps.. Dear Kanye, I was a hundred feet from your feet… Your eyes were shut so as not to be distracted from the words you had just written around the corner, but here you were debuting this song live from Saturday Night Live… and I’m in the TV studio to witness some black history. It’s May 18, 2013. Your “leather black jeans on My by-any-means-on Pardon, I'm getting my scream on Enter the kingdom” It felt like hip hop wanted the black leather jacket back from rock ’n’ roll… and the rock ’n’ roll silhouette too. And there you were. Head like a bullet against the supermarket yellow backdrop with a sign saying NOT FOR SALE. Words shot from a glock-like mouth, from the lips of some punk Othello, with dogs like wolves on a leash… teeth bared, tongues dripping, ku klux knots slipping. I was about to get musically kicked in the head but I remember the smell of bovver boot leather as it actually stomped on me. I remembered white skinheads. I remembered the feeling of being 15… I’m watching a film noir, horror… I was in that movie… but that night the beating was inside my head not on my head, in fact it sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before. The soundtrack of terror, but I wasn’t afraid… I was relieved somebody was fearless. Your fan since you came out on the road with us for the Vertigo tour, again, fearless... Bono
@@windingrefn8417, its all subjectful. Some ppl love JIK. I rly like all the songs. I don't rank Kanyes albums cause i listen to them in different moods
chriiisclm it was though even with the album art it’s just a blank cd. It was raw when everything around it was super produced and trying to be beautiful. It’s almost a metal album. Reminds me of SoundCloud music before SoundCloud was even around like that. Like XXX. Kanye makes good music no debate each of his albums has their own vibe and style. Yeezus was raw , real , fuck you fuck the system fuck everybody fuck how everyone does things this is how I’m going to do it. Just listen to new slaves.“ y’all tryna turn shit up , I’m bout to tear shit down ! “ anti especially when compared to my beautiful dark twisted fantasy that was about a fake super produced plastic surgery beautiful lifestyle
I was glued to my computer for the release of Yeezus. I watched all the New Slave projections and Black Skinhead is easily one of my favorite performances ever. That being said, Hey Mama at the Grammys is by far his best performance. Can't watch it without crying. can't watch it on UA-cam cause of copyright btw. Dailymotion has it.
DAMN. I used to think him calling himself a rock star was kind of silly, at least inaccurate. But that was the most rock n' roll thing on SNL in a long, long time.
Love him or hate him, this man is a pure, unadulterated artist. Which is insanely hard to come by these days, especially at his level of commercial success.
He has commercial success, for whatever reason, but he is no musician, no artist. unadulterated and unckeced Ego, and for some reason the masses swallow it up. Unfortuneatly thats what people want these days, a talentless asshole with a god complex, people lap that shit up. A musical Connor McGregor... Why does the world love cunts so much?
chad It's not derived from anything. Just like you say it has elements of death grips, I'd say it has elements of rock. Don't act like it contains everything that's in rock
chad Just because they say "hey" the whole time and Kanye yells too it's alike? It's really not that similar. Black keys howlin for you sounds more like is rock and roll part 2 than Kanye. I don't think he sat down studied rock and then did this song. It simply has elements of rock which is why it's somewhat similar to so many generic rock songs. Not "derived" man. Take it easy on trying to claim shit
yes yes YES! by so far. This version is the best version. Both this and new slaves are better on SNL. I get what he's trying to do on yezus, but both tracks on SNL have a quality that the attempted minimalism on the album does not achieve. P.S. RUN THE JEWELS.
Aaron Jackson Nah, he sounds a lot more powerful on the snl version than the studio version. The screams in this one are a lot better too, the studio ones sounded off track and delated, kinda weird.
+Cameron French yeah he was trying to passively clown kanye but then he heard the performance and felt it lol then when he introduces kanye's next song which was new slaves u can tell ben was all enthusiastic n shit. Yeezus walks.
He is really smart but his ego is rather hurting him when it comes to the simple folk and their stance on Kanye. They can't see beyond the ego to the genius that lives in there. He's fucking great. He's Kanye. That's the only way to describe him.
What people need to realize that he shouldn't be judged for how likable he is. He's not trying to be likable, and his success is measured in a unique way. If Taylor Swift was an outright bitch for example, she wouldn't be as famous as she is now.
Damn, this is a crazy performance. The audio-visual work is steller. Probably one of the most shocking and experimental featured acts to be put on such a huge, mainstream timeslot.
I've been a fan of 'Pac , The Beatles , Marilyn Manson among many other revoloutionary artists and bands, but from all the music I've heard in my life, nothing is quite like Kanye's music, he's always provided something new, something original and innovative. His vision and direction have created a new dimension in music, you have to understand him as an artists to enjoy music beyond the likes of 'Stronger' and 'All of The Lights' ... once you understand what he is trying to do as a person, only then will your mind open up to who and what Kanye West actually is. Albums like Yeezus and 808's weren't invented to be heard and loved by absolutely everybody, that's not Kanye's mission... he was, and still is creating music with such intelligence and creativity. Putting it basically - Kanye makes music, you either love it, or you hate it.. You either love him, or you hate him... I chose to understand Kanye's levels of limitation, and found out they aren't any... Kanye West > The whole fucking game
He's a genius when it comes to making beats. But his lyrics are not close to his beat-making level. Kendrick is the best in the game when it comes to lyrics right now.
Will V I was at Governor's Ball 2013 and think that was the first concert performance of the song. It was pure MADNESS. The whole crowd was yelling the song at the top of our lungs!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
and i can't help but wonder if the title is a reference to actual skinheads who started out of the ska/punk scene back in the mid to late sixties. this was before the word had a racist connotation, it was just a punk thing
@@qwertydog9795 Skinhead culture came out of the mod scene, they were known as hard mods, not ska or punk. They did later associate with the punk scene. The ska and reggae thing is more of a Jewish liberal lie to defame skinheads and make them seem like they worshipped black culture and slight them that way. Most early skinheads were against invaders from foreign nations into England and the UK. They were not racist, they were guardians of their nation and Indigenous land. They were opposite of the long haired, drug addled, liberal hippies. Skinheads were also called "peanuts" or "bovver boys" before skinhead caught on. They also didn't have shaved heads, just short cropped hair. The shaved head is a poser thing.
I want everyone to pay attention to the "Not For Sale" sign that appears right before he starts, throughout, and right when he's done performing. Kanye was playing chess with Nike meanwhile we were all just thinking about some red sneakers 👀 Leverage people. Leverage.
Don't particularly care for Kanye or some of his antics, however, you've got to give credit where credit is due - THIS WAS AWESOME!!!!! Regardless of any personal opinion - this was brilliant! What a great artist.
Ben Affleck is probably uneasy at the beginning because he is the host of that weeks SNL, but most likely the people that attended were just there for Kanye.
Kanye is doing things that no other artist (except Kendrick lamar) can even dream of. He's not afraid to try new things and experiment with his music. Every single album is something completely different and original.
DomImaBoss I wouldn't call it "completely original". Yeezus seemed to take heavy influence from the rise of industrial hip hop like Death Grips and Clipping. However I agree that not many mainstream artists these days are willing to try something new. Many of them just stick with the same formula.
+austin215 And that my friend is a true statement... Adele, who indeed is talented, is slightly overrated. I like her, but her personality plus her talent is carrying her to astronomical heights, while Kanye's arrogance (I like his music too) diminishes the people he could reach.
+galvatron77 but I feel like that doesn't have to be true. I mean John Lennon is revered as the greatest to ever do it. (Woman beater, known to do all sorts of mischievous things like cheating as well) is loved. All Kanye does is fool around at some award shows to get people mad. I don't get it
+AyyElMao that capitalism became the new form of slavery in the west. We are still chained by greed and the social stigmas that sprouted from it. It's some surface level shit just read the lyrics
+AyyElMao plus individualism is pushed aside for profits like how most of his songs on versus are way different in feel compared to his last songs because he just wanted to prove he's one of the last artists to not sell out that bad
+The Maybe N00b I interpret it as Kanye talking about black supremacy and how he is trying to get back at the kkk also the song is called black skinhead and that's a reference to what they would call a neo nazi (kkk)
Yeezus will always stand as the most nervous, innovative and anti conformist album Ye can make. One of his mastered projects, he's so proud of it now considering that 90% of the bad opinions in 2013 have changed their minds now. This live on SNL is so chaotic and controlled at the same time, it seems like he totallly knows what he's doing even if his moves and words looks disorriented ! BEst live ever from the best artist ever, simple as that
hahah funny becasue kanye sampled the song beuatiful people, wow you have grat hearing or great "sound pickin up" manson said he liked kanyes version so all respect there
People forget that this was the first time ANYONE heard this song. Yeezus wasn’t released until a month later, so this SNL performance was the only preview anyone had for what Kanye was working on.
Interesting. I don't think its theatre but it would make sense for the inglorious bastard line preceding it. Below is what I hear "What do you say to a masked man, this inglorius bastard thats scrappin' We might at this very instant like the being that hitler was trapped in"
that scream in the beginning should have been on the album
fr it makes it more dope
Matthew Nelson there's an extended edition of the Yeezus album that included the screams on Black Skinhead, peep that joint brothers
Thrintus Lore where can I find it
Yo anybody know where to find this extended version of the album with the scream version of this song on it? Keep looking but cant find it anywhere
Goat Nelson ben affleck choking up in the introduction should have been on the album
This gave me chills, the screams in this version are so much more primal and angry than the studio version, I fricken love it.
I love both versions
This better than the album version
Yesss an ik am late lmao
You know is playback, right?
@@Adrian-zi8uc the vocals are live
Whoever made the background visuals needs an award
Nice pfp
@@KYOJIN8238 star platinum
@@pattox7714 jhonny joestar
Kanye
@@ralphtena9393 Kanye
Dude freestyled at least 50% of the lyrics here to make it work as a clean version
This is the original version, this was before yeezus came out.
He wrote this shortly before. This was for TGFD/BAP, which was the predecessor to Yeezus
@@TnFPanzer I know you're joking but I'm pretty sure most songs are 99% done months before the album was released, so yeah, this is not the original.
@@YantoWest not necessarily true. There are many artists now that make half their album the week before. for example, kanye did that with donda. he re recorded and partially rewrote half of the album
@@pineapplevlogs1267 what's BAP?
I'm happy for you and imma let y'all finish, but Kanye West had one of the greatest SNL performances of ALL TIME.
I assume you're referring to the i love it performance with lil pump
@@jurelavtar6322 no taylor swifts grammy win
@@MrPtrlix that makes more sense
@@MrPtrlix not grammys. MTV awards
Haha
Why does Ben Affleck look like he's going to cry in the beginning?
couldnt handle being in the presence of a genius
You wouldn't expect him to act normal when he's in front of a God do you?
+Daniel Plainview Because you drank his milkshake.
ikr
+x Nick lmaooo
Like he said “it’s a shame I can never watch myself live”
I mean he is a great performer 😂
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
The ego on this guy is out of control.
@@silentblackhole but he ain't lying lol. I've seen Kanye live 4 times and he is an amazing performer. He tells a story with his performance.
heres your 700 like
This was too experimental at the time for people to wrap their heads around, but are now realising how amazing this was
Did you realize it's amazingness at the time?
It’s not experimental at all it’s when he became friends with Marilyn Manson. It’s him rapping over a Manson style/Pigface beat. I’m not dissing him for that, he’s a great artist. But he went from defending paedophile MJ to hanging with rapist and abuser Manson, and now he’s hanging around with men accused of worse. I don’t understand how someone apparently so intelligent can keep such bad company.
@@jeemale9207 Literally the only SNL performance that made me want to check out a song.
Kanye included this song at the listening party for Vultures 2 the other day in Arizona and the crowd loved it.
Yeezus is one of my favourite albums ever. Wish there was more industrial hip hop out there
God, Yeezy's screams are amazing.
God, Yeezus is AMAZING.
Berxern God, God is amazing.
God is amazing ! And Kanye is a genius....whom God made
hazed yeezus ain't amazing but this song was.
@@hoc1992 True
this is like one of the most powerful live perfomances ive ever seen period
guess you've never seen metal or punk shows. this was tame as fuck
@@sinephase for TV? Nah
sinephase it’s not super tame. kanye channels lot of hardcore punk energy, especially yeezus era
sinephase But for rap, it is prettty screamy. But it ain't shit to actual metal. XD
Kenny The Trend that’s because actual metal is shit ?
This performance was before Yeezus was released, so I can't imagine expecting more My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and getting this aggressiveness. Understandable why people didn't like it, but holy smokes, looking back this is one of Kanye's best performances of all time. He was way ahead of the times
Genica still is! 🎶love is the new money❤️ ascension
Ahead of his time, sometimes years out. So the poweres that be wont let him get his ideas out.
Genica I want this Kanye back so much. Haven’t heard actually good music like this in so long
@@userwhom people are straaaange, first they hate him because he made this, then they hate him because he doesn't make this anymore maaaaan
❤❤ how old are you? 🙏🏽 - this was 2012, at 28, it feels like yesterday, the emotional experience still resonates. What's profound about this run was the tour though. Like Michael Jackson's bad tour - it will be remembered forever
This was the wrong song to listen to while going to sleep
i play this on 1/4th shrooms whenever I wanna visit hell
Just listen to one of your own songs to sleep to frank
@@freddy3150 💀🤣
Bruh 😂
You can say that again Frank Sinatra
When this happened 3 years ago people said it was trash...now looking back people are realising how brilliant the yeezus album was
imo it's his best work
I slept on this back then when i took the time to listening to it couldnt believe how wrong i was i think this is his best artistic work
every hour*
This is literally the only song I liked on 'Yeezus'.
MrQ.123 Same
I remember going to Kanye West concert in Malaysia years ago, small crowd of say 300 or so, but he still rocked it for over two hours. Crowd was wild in response. Concert to remember. West rocks it when he wants.
What? How? Kanye with only 300 people crowd. How?
@@tamago2864 Many Malaysians dont know Kanye West, only few people knew him here.
@Alex Leblanc in Armenia
@Alex Leblanc aww so kind! What a legand!
Keep it 300 like the the Romans
the host sounded like his goldfish just died
Shaiden
I swear that's big Ben Affleck.
I literally laughed out loud when I read this but yeah he seemed down
H Master cause it is
N f
"The host" How do you not know who Ben Affleck is?
Came here to rewatch this after discovering a letter that Bono (U2) wrote to Kanye regarding this performance. Literal goosebumps..
Dear Kanye,
I was a hundred feet from your feet… Your eyes were shut so as not to be distracted from the words you had just written around the corner, but here you were debuting this song live from Saturday Night Live… and I’m in the TV studio to witness some black history. It’s May 18, 2013.
Your “leather black jeans on
My by-any-means-on
Pardon, I'm getting my scream on
Enter the kingdom”
It felt like hip hop wanted the black leather jacket back from rock ’n’ roll… and the rock ’n’ roll silhouette too. And there you were. Head like a bullet against the supermarket yellow backdrop with a sign saying NOT FOR SALE. Words shot from a glock-like mouth, from the lips of some punk Othello, with dogs like wolves on a leash… teeth bared, tongues dripping, ku klux knots slipping.
I was about to get musically kicked in the head but I remember the smell of bovver boot leather as it actually stomped on me. I remembered white skinheads.
I remembered the feeling of being 15… I’m watching a film noir, horror… I was in that movie… but that night the beating was inside my head not on my head, in fact it sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before. The soundtrack of terror, but I wasn’t afraid… I was relieved somebody was fearless.
Your fan since you came out on the road with us for the Vertigo tour, again, fearless...
Bono
wow
I don't even like Bono but I would read this like six times a day if he wrote it to me
Ah yes, Bono's 1952 essay "The Rule-Breaking Negro"
I ain't reading all that
happy for you tho
or sorry that happened
@@wheres_wolfie haha please
Y’all really tried to call yeezus garbage ... i won’t forget
I still think its his worst album, probably listened to it 10 times fully, everything else he released is ALL DAY
@@ChimcharrNo1 even after JIK? BRUH
I'll never forget all the times they tried to write our boii off.
@@windingrefn8417, its all subjectful. Some ppl love JIK. I rly like all the songs. I don't rank Kanyes albums cause i listen to them in different moods
Angry aggressive af Kanye is my favorite Kanye. This performance is as good as it gets.
Hate him or love him this is GOLD
David Jackson true
I completely agree. It’s Also timeless
I prefer too just LOVE Ye💖
He doesn’t take no L so I guess he is not GOLD but GOD
except the 300 like the romans part.
Love this song, and I also love how much more aggressive the live version is.
I hate how that aggression is censored.
Alex C. a unique club banger compared to the generic club bangers pop singers usually do
Alex C. the touch of theGesaffelstein
I thought the same thing! This wa filled with so much passion. Can't wait to see him live one day
lol hey alex
Radiohead performing "national anthem" was the greatest snl performance of all time until Kanye showed up with this. This is absolutely brilliant
both. both are good
sorry brother, Radiohead clears
@@extraterrestrial8888Kendrick Lamar i is the best SNL performance
@@extraterrestrial8888 nope
Yeezus was literally the Anti of music. It tried to do the complete opposite of the mainstream 2013 music. And I think this was executed very well.
ExpresswayMusic yes
Listen to Death Grips. There is a clear inspiration
that's why yeezus called experemintal album
You can't spell American Dream without Eric Andre
Are you saying that Death Grips inspired Kanye, or Kanye inspired Death Grips?
chriiisclm it was though even with the album art it’s just a blank cd. It was raw when everything around it was super produced and trying to be beautiful. It’s almost a metal album. Reminds me of SoundCloud music before SoundCloud was even around like that. Like XXX. Kanye makes good music no debate each of his albums has their own vibe and style. Yeezus was raw , real , fuck you fuck the system fuck everybody fuck how everyone does things this is how I’m going to do it. Just listen to new slaves.“ y’all tryna turn shit up , I’m bout to tear shit down ! “ anti especially when compared to my beautiful dark twisted fantasy that was about a fake super produced plastic surgery beautiful lifestyle
I fucking love the "not for sale" sign at the end. Wow. kanye is eons ahead of the music industry.
***** Its how he finished it with his symbolic performance.
And yet he is for sale, he's a pop rapper. He's not ahead of any industry, he's part of it.
not for sale? "PLEAAAAASE purchase tidal"
Austin Wegner not anymore after his speech lol
The irony is ridiculous . He IS for sale
this is the most punk rock thing any artist has done on a mainstream level since the 2000s began
Have you heard American Idiot?
+Nick Campellone musically speaking American Idiot is VERY punk rock, i agree, but i think Yeezus was way more subversive and visceral in nature.
+Drew Thomas how is yeezus punk rock?
+Hector Lujan I'd say more punk character, not rock
+Will Cochran yeah true
Imo this is Kanye's best performance ever. I hope he brings this type of energy on his new album.
Definitely also when he did Stronger at the Grammys
All day at the Brit awards
Kind of different
I was glued to my computer for the release of Yeezus. I watched all the New Slave projections and Black Skinhead is easily one of my favorite performances ever.
That being said, Hey Mama at the Grammys is by far his best performance. Can't watch it without crying. can't watch it on UA-cam cause of copyright btw. Dailymotion has it.
dondadondadonda
This is metal af. Yeezus was a crazy album. Definitely different than anything Kanye ever made or has made since then.
Cole Madeoy it’s Punky
How did he get from this to "I love it"
@@papi1050 i love it is better than it looks
Yeezus is fucking awesome, Kanye always kept us guessing with his production style, can't wait for Yandhi (I swear it's gonna come out eventually)
Sagnik Mukherjee from all the leaks and stuff i’ve seen from JMP (check out his channel) the album is about to be insane.
The fucking energy is Unbelievable. Jesus i had chills the entire time
saaaame
u should see him in the music video H.A.M
Lmao kanye is a musical genius
One of his best albums. I will never understand why people didnt like it.
Daniel Evans they weren't ready.
It’s good, just not as good as his others imo
Cause the lyrics on the majority of the songs was just Kanye jerking himself off
Unnamed gaming 2002 In my opinion its one of his best.
Chase Combs It wasnt ahead of its time at all, he was way behind the whole experimental/industrial hip hop wave
i think this version is better than the album version
facts so much passion
This version was made for tgfd
“fuck snl and the whole cast tell ‘em yeezy said they can kiss my whole ass”
@@tamtam21801 do yk we're I can find this version
DAMN. I used to think him calling himself a rock star was kind of silly, at least inaccurate. But that was the most rock n' roll thing on SNL in a long, long time.
Sure Umm predicted Kendrick
“DAMN.”
Kendrick was here confirmed
I'm not trying to be a hypebeast but this could be the greatest SNL performance of all time
Yeezus I like the album lyrics better tbh but his energy and charisma is good
Yeezus That and Kendricks
Yeezus it is
No
Maximiliano Amaral
got another one?
Love him or hate him, this man is a pure, unadulterated artist. Which is insanely hard to come by these days, especially at his level of commercial success.
He has commercial success, for whatever reason, but he is no musician, no artist. unadulterated and unckeced Ego, and for some reason the masses swallow it up.
Unfortuneatly thats what people want these days, a talentless asshole with a god complex, people lap that shit up. A musical Connor McGregor... Why does the world love cunts so much?
Indeed.
Brilliant
kanye is so groundbreaking that even ben affleck’s voice cracked when he was announcing the guest
Dang cant believe batmans voice cracked 🤣
He's a God
kanye west killed the stage. Honestly i like this type of music. Hip hop and rock is the shit when used correctly. #Yezus
rock?
well whatever it is its DOPE
Idiot
chad It's not derived from anything. Just like you say it has elements of death grips, I'd say it has elements of rock. Don't act like it contains everything that's in rock
chad Just because they say "hey" the whole time and Kanye yells too it's alike? It's really not that similar. Black keys howlin for you sounds more like is rock and roll part 2 than Kanye. I don't think he sat down studied rock and then did this song. It simply has elements of rock which is why it's somewhat similar to so many generic rock songs. Not "derived" man. Take it easy on trying to claim shit
I always thought the live version of this song is a lot better than the studio version
ran that tune
Nice rtj pic
yes yes YES! by so far. This version is the best version. Both this and new slaves are better on SNL. I get what he's trying to do on yezus, but both tracks on SNL have a quality that the attempted minimalism on the album does not achieve. P.S. RUN THE JEWELS.
That's a joke right? It was SNL. It's like yeezy was barely trying up there. Like they're beneath him
Aaron Jackson Nah, he sounds a lot more powerful on the snl version than the studio version. The screams in this one are a lot better too, the studio ones sounded off track and delated, kinda weird.
holy fuck you can feel the passion and energy through the screen
2:25 that keyboardist dancing🔥🔥🔥
me
DJ Mano 🤣🤣
I’d be loosing my shit too.
🤑
Was Ben Affleck trying to hold in tears when he was introducing Kanye?
Cameron French i would be
I thought the same. He must hate him too
Cameron French Cause he knew how beautiful it was going to be
+Cameron French yeah he was trying to passively clown kanye but then he heard the performance and felt it lol then when he introduces kanye's next song which was new slaves u can tell ben was all enthusiastic n shit. Yeezus walks.
+Cameron French Must of been painful to do that. I bet the Batfleck side of him just wanted to clamp his nuts and aim the grapple gun to the moon.
Like this song or not, you have to give him props for going on that stage and playing music like the mainstream has never heard
ok dirty dan
Mark Oswalt lmao
Peanutbutterchalupa It doesn't make sense now because he changed his profile pic :(
Yaaas!!
Mark Oswalt
Fuck, he's good
The people in the audience have no idea how lucky they are
I was front row in the live audience for this performance. It still makes me tear up every time I see this. So raw, so powerful, so good.
The dude is a lot smarter than most give him credit for.
***** That's you
He is really smart but his ego is rather hurting him when it comes to the simple folk and their stance on Kanye. They can't see beyond the ego to the genius that lives in there. He's fucking great. He's Kanye. That's the only way to describe him.
What people need to realize that he shouldn't be judged for how likable he is. He's not trying to be likable, and his success is measured in a unique way. If Taylor Swift was an outright bitch for example, she wouldn't be as famous as she is now.
***** Lol ur Vids are shit
Jason Chamberlain Taylor is kind of a bitch though..... that is what made her more famous, because alot of people hate her.
Those microphone effects are sick. Gives a whole new dimension.
It reminds me of 21st century schizoid man
True dat
I think it’s intended but you are right it’s sick.
Big props to the sound guy for making the effects work flawlessly
Damn, this is a crazy performance. The audio-visual work is steller. Probably one of the most shocking and experimental featured acts to be put on such a huge, mainstream timeslot.
The performance that turned me into a fan
Watch All DAY LIVE
Same
same
Turned me into an air conditioner
@@hollycline2427 💦
I've been a fan of 'Pac , The Beatles , Marilyn Manson among many other revoloutionary artists and bands, but from all the music I've heard in my life, nothing is quite like Kanye's music, he's always provided something new, something original and innovative. His vision and direction have created a new dimension in music, you have to understand him as an artists to enjoy music beyond the likes of 'Stronger' and 'All of The Lights' ... once you understand what he is trying to do as a person, only then will your mind open up to who and what Kanye West actually is. Albums like Yeezus and 808's weren't invented to be heard and loved by absolutely everybody, that's not Kanye's mission... he was, and still is creating music with such intelligence and creativity. Putting it basically - Kanye makes music, you either love it, or you hate it.. You either love him, or you hate him... I chose to understand Kanye's levels of limitation, and found out they aren't any... Kanye West > The whole fucking game
you know what you're talking bout ! couldn't have said it better myself.
***** lol no he isn't
Linkin Park are not 'revolutionary' by any means.
He's a genius when it comes to making beats. But his lyrics are not close to his beat-making level. Kendrick is the best in the game when it comes to lyrics right now.
Death Grips
The guy at the back on the right always kills me; haha so hyped, his dance moves
Isanda Notshe 😂😂
Isanda Notshe thought I was the only one..lol
They all groovin
You can just feel the passion and energy in his voice and the lyrics what an amazing performance and performer. chills fr
holy fuck imagine being at a yeezy concert
***** lel gay fish amirite?????? xD xD xD xD xD le epic wrong generation meme!!!!
Will V I was at Governor's Ball 2013 and think that was the first concert performance of the song. It was pure MADNESS. The whole crowd was yelling the song at the top of our lungs!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
John Wesley Sargent youre so lucky omg. thats how you know hes so amazing
Lewis Hayman freak
you are totally irrelevant you fucking mong lmao
Ben affleck's voice crack
Cambam_015 so
him and kendrick are the some of the greatest performers ever...
W
Travis $cotts in there too
dont forget travis scott hes like the best if u havent seen him
And j cole
Eminem
This album aged like fine wine
Imagine seeing this in person oh my god
ikr
Damn that has to be the coolest vocal distortion effect I've ever heard from a live performance
Most fearless SNL performance in history!
That first guy yelling in the audience at 0:09 scared the shit out of me
Hahaha
Fr
I would’ve too
Objectively the greatest 4 minutes in SNL history. I can't even imagine being there live for this, what a genius. He really is on a different level
Ye is GOAT bruh!!!
Gotta watch this video at least once a month
once a week*
Gabriel Michael everyday*
every minute lol
all day
hania
Yesssss
Holy shit that passion.
This is some Punk Rock type stuff right here. The lyrics, the energy, the distorted vocals, and the leather jacket 🔥🔥🔥
and i can't help but wonder if the title is a reference to actual skinheads who started out of the ska/punk scene back in the mid to late sixties. this was before the word had a racist connotation, it was just a punk thing
He's appropriating punk culture. He's a poser
@@qwertydog9795 Skinhead culture came out of the mod scene, they were known as hard mods, not ska or punk. They did later associate with the punk scene. The ska and reggae thing is more of a Jewish liberal lie to defame skinheads and make them seem like they worshipped black culture and slight them that way. Most early skinheads were against invaders from foreign nations into England and the UK. They were not racist, they were guardians of their nation and Indigenous land. They were opposite of the long haired, drug addled, liberal hippies. Skinheads were also called "peanuts" or "bovver boys" before skinhead caught on. They also didn't have shaved heads, just short cropped hair. The shaved head is a poser thing.
@@sonnyday6727 you never heard of trojan records?
*This garbage is not Punk*
the most influential artist of the 21st century
Yes, he is Michael Jackson's protege
Correct
Gabriel Arquillo I think he knows that. Just saying there’s 80 years left in the century
Holly Cline yup
Radiohead
If I was there I would be losing my damn mind. This shit was so electrifying and intense 🔥
Literal death from excitement
Y'all want him to loose his mind.
Is Ben Affleck okay??
noelle liser he knew this was bout to be hard
I know right? Like i'm sure some people came to see you Ben. Calm down.
Daniel DeSantos not true
N Well he knew of his future so no wonder.
Ben doesnt like rap.. but they made him do it anyway.
most artistic expression without being culturally acceptable. 100% ahead of the times. like always, this is truely next level visuals
Bro you need to get out more this is just a rehash like all music it goes around in cycles.
@@GL-ys8je 🧢
every time i watch this i hold my breath the entire time
you can hold your breath for almost 4 minutes?
theKonsti yea
nice
Facts
Blue McDaniel (Charlie Heat Version)
MC Ride on keys in the back
This performance >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Taylor swift discography
truth
lil xanny now you know why he made that bitch famous ;)
Jasper Kerr No need to even compare, if you are a human with ears, you would know Kanye is better.
S N E K
no shit
His second most powerful SNL performance ever. The first obviously being his "I love it" performance with Lil Pump.
Funny. His best was easily "power". You can't find it on UA-cam anymore though.
Lil pump LOL
I don't even listen to Kanye but this was some good shit
Sick Sad World Me too😂
Listen more then
You sleep then
Same dude this fye
2:49 ohhhhhh myyyyyy GOOSEBUMPS
Much much better than the CD version
I want everyone to pay attention to the "Not For Sale" sign that appears right before he starts, throughout, and right when he's done performing. Kanye was playing chess with Nike meanwhile we were all just thinking about some red sneakers 👀
Leverage people. Leverage.
He is a fantastic live performer. Very powerful.
Love this song
dang lol i like ur sense of music, from classical to kanye
You are everywhere.
Whatever pshhhhhhh
Damn bro now look at you.
2:31 2:33 2:34 @KANYE WEST @ 2:49 @DONALD TRUMP 23ELECTIONS 🍝 🤣 @LIFEOFPABLO 3:06 🏴☠️🏯🗼🎎
This version is more metal and angrier than the studio version. You can headbang to this.
Batman introduced Kanye! this song is in suicide squad..coincidence?
Stage four lung cancer is fun! :D
Railfan Andy™ it WAS when they gave Deadshot the gun in the prison
Ya'll joke must be crazy!!🔥🔫
Uhhhh no it wasn't Wreak Havoc it was black skinhead, but wreak havoc is like the biggest black skinhead rip off
Gabriel Iaco Still better than Black Skinhead.
album version should've sounded like this
oh hi sakurai. wonder if you heard about this from GR's video.
BadmouthBlooper music got blocked on that video
It hurts
Umm 666 likes
Ben sounded frightened at the begining, haha
*Definitely his most badass song.*
Why does batman look like he's about to cry?
Martha
Somebody told him George Clooney was a better batman than him.
Someone said martha
i dont see christian bale here ??
Someone said martha
Don't particularly care for Kanye or some of his antics, however, you've got to give credit where credit is due - THIS WAS AWESOME!!!!!
Regardless of any personal opinion - this was brilliant! What a great artist.
imagine this perfomance WITHOUT the censorship
The world would LOSE THEIR MINDS
Ben Affleck is probably uneasy at the beginning because he is the host of that weeks SNL, but most likely the people that attended were just there for Kanye.
Kanye is doing things that no other artist (except Kendrick lamar) can even dream of. He's not afraid to try new things and experiment with his music. Every single album is something completely different and original.
Listen to Beck
you're right, but bjork is better for that imo. we should be grateful were alive during these peoples careers, its fucking dope
You called Kanye an "artist" ... Losing all credibility with that comment
Alan Lloyd He is an artist though :/
DomImaBoss I wouldn't call it "completely original". Yeezus seemed to take heavy influence from the rise of industrial hip hop like Death Grips and Clipping. However I agree that not many mainstream artists these days are willing to try something new. Many of them just stick with the same formula.
Ppl that hate his music just because they hate him as a person
+austin215 And that my friend is a true statement... Adele, who indeed is talented, is slightly overrated. I like her, but her personality plus her talent is carrying her to astronomical heights, while Kanye's arrogance (I like his music too) diminishes the people he could reach.
+galvatron77 but I feel like that doesn't have to be true. I mean John Lennon is revered as the greatest to ever do it. (Woman beater, known to do all sorts of mischievous things like cheating as well) is loved. All Kanye does is fool around at some award shows to get people mad. I don't get it
+Liam Mahoney well i think him being black plays a big role why he is hated
I agree with you. It's disappointing how no one wants to admit that especially my fellow white people
Haci Donmez
low iq unbwise fu
This version of this song is waaaay better
I knoooooooooo
AS FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUC
how?
@@cheekybananaboy3361 (2:35) the way that this version give us tension is just Yeezus
People who hate this don't get what Kanye's trying to say about the world right now
+AyyElMao that capitalism became the new form of slavery in the west. We are still chained by greed and the social stigmas that sprouted from it. It's some surface level shit just read the lyrics
+AyyElMao plus individualism is pushed aside for profits like how most of his songs on versus are way different in feel compared to his last songs because he just wanted to prove he's one of the last artists to not sell out that bad
+AyyElMao Im pretty sure he knows it, his mother would disown him if he didn't
+The Maybe N00b but he's talking abou leather black jeans on?? 😂
+The Maybe N00b I interpret it as Kanye talking about black supremacy and how he is trying to get back at the kkk also the song is called black skinhead and that's a reference to what they would call a neo nazi (kkk)
Among the greatest live musical performances I've ever seen. Amazing.
Yeezus will always stand as the most nervous, innovative and anti conformist album Ye can make. One of his mastered projects, he's so proud of it now considering that 90% of the bad opinions in 2013 have changed their minds now.
This live on SNL is so chaotic and controlled at the same time, it seems like he totallly knows what he's doing even if his moves and words looks disorriented ! BEst live ever from the best artist ever, simple as that
iconic moment in music history.
This guys good, and this song reminds of me of the beautiful people
actually yeah it totally reminds me of "the beautiful people", you're right!
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hahah funny becasue kanye sampled the song beuatiful people, wow you have grat hearing or great "sound pickin up" manson said he liked kanyes version so all respect there
Simba Stockton It's not from beautiful people.It's Rock n Roll from Gary Glitter. Says so on the actual CD case.
It sounds like something off "Downward Spiral" from NIN. So raw.
People forget that this was the first time ANYONE heard this song. Yeezus wasn’t released until a month later, so this SNL performance was the only preview anyone had for what Kanye was working on.
Ben Affleck listened to this song.
*Now he is kicking Superman's ass.*
he gets so much shit but this song is fucking fire
Anyone else watching this after Bono’s statement?
Lol yeah
Right here
yesss siiiirrr!!!
That’s the only reason I tuned in
Yes....lol, but I thought it was pretty good!
like this version better than the album version
Amazing song. He's a rock star
This is best live performances ever 🙌
Energy, performance, visuals, message.
The screams is still fire
who still bumping to this.. and Yeezus.. 10 years later?? 😅🔥🔥🔥
me😎
@@goofy9125 cool cool 😎🙏🏾
2:32 “burn this ish down like the theatre hitler was trapped in” 😮
Interesting. I don't think its theatre but it would make sense for the inglorious bastard line preceding it.
Below is what I hear
"What do you say to a masked man,
this inglorius bastard thats scrappin'
We might at this very instant
like the being that hitler was trapped in"