Kanye West has been busy this week, releasing live projections on buildings as a way to premiere his new songs. He also announced that his album is titled Yeezus (yes, you read that correctly).
Last night he closed out the season of SNL (Bill Hader’s last show) with the performance of two new songs, “Black Skinhead” and “New Slaves” (the one he projected onto buildings).
“Black Skinhead” starts out with a rapid fare pace, sounding something like a mix of Nine Inch Nails, Death Grips, and Marilyn Manson, which makes sense since it features a sample of Manson’s “Beautiful People.” It’s a very different Kanye West than anything that we’ve already heard before, which is astonishing if you really think about it. Then he performed “New Slaves” in a more stripped down but still fired up manner.
He killed it. It’s good to see him back, this good.
Black Skinhead:
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