Kanye West videography
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West attending the Vanity Fair kickoff party for the eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009
American hip hop musician, songwriter and record producer Kanye West has released four video albums and been featured in various music videos. He has also made cameo appearances in films and appeared in several television programs.
Music videos[edit]
As lead artist[edit]
• | Denotes music videos directed by Kanye West |
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West collaborated with animator Bill Plympton for the second version of the music video for "Heard 'Em Say."
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American comedian Zach Galifianakis is featured in the alternate music video for "Can't Tell Me Nothing."
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Spike Jonze has directed three music videos for West; the first version of "Flashing Lights," Otis and "Only One."
Title | Year | Other performer(s) credited | Director(s) | Description | Ref. |
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"Through the Wire" • | 2003 | None | Kanye West Coodie and Chike |
[1] | |
"Jesus Walks" (version 1) | 2004 | None | Michael Haussman | The music video was filmed in California and West is portrayed as a preacher rapping before a congregation from a pulpit. All the while, angels guide a prostitute, an alcoholic, and a drug dealer who want to change their lives to his Baptist church. | [2] [3] |
"Jesus Walks" (version 2) | None | Chris Milk | [4] | ||
"Jesus Walks (version 3)" • | None | Kanye West Coodie and Chike |
Shot in black-and-white, the low-budget video was filmed guerrilla-style in West's hometown of Chicago. It depicts Jesus in the present-day following West as he walks from his home and through his neighborhood to church, performing miracles along the way. | [5] | |
"All Falls Down" |
Syleena Johnson | Chris Milk Kanye West |
Filmed at the Ontario International Airport and shot from a first-person perspective. West escorts his girlfriend, played by Stacey Dash, from inside their car and throughout the departure terminal to catch her flight. The video illustrates their journey literally through West's eyes, but he is momentarily seen rapping lines when passing by reflective mirrors. Certain scenes are in slow-motion and include cameos by Syleena Johnson, Common, and Kel Mitchell playing the various roles of airport employees. | [6] | |
"The New Workout Plan" • | None | Little X Kanye West |
The video is tailored in the manner of an infomercial for a series of workout tapes. It boasts cameos from Anna Nicole Smith, Tracee Ellis Ross, Esther Baxter, Vida Guerra, Consequence, GLC, Miri Ben-Ari, John Legend, and West's mascot Dropout Bear and features Fonzworth Bentley performing his guest verse from the remix. The long version of the video contains an extended introduction derived from a skit taken from The College Dropout. | [7] | |
"Diamonds from Sierra Leone" | 2005 | None | Hype Williams | The music video was shot entirely in black-and-white and filmed on location in the city of Prague. West traverses throughout the Czech Republic capital as the video depicts young African children toiling away in mines juxtaposed with scenes of wealthy Europeans shopping in boutiques and trying on jewelry. The music video concludes with text which reads, "Please purchase conflict-free diamonds." | [8] |
"Gold Digger" | Jamie Foxx | [9] | |||
"Heard 'Em Say" (version 1) | Adam Levine | Michel Gondry | Filmed in Macy's flagship department store in New York City, the live-action music video expresses a surrealistic Christmas sentiment with the use of special effects. It depicts West as a homeless father of three young children who stay overnight inside the store which seems to come alive. Adam Levine plays a security guard while co-producer Jon Brion makes a brief cameo appearance. | [10] | |
"Heard 'Em Say" (version 2) • | Adam Levine | Bill Plympton Joe DeMaio Kanye West |
The animated music video expresses grayscale pencil-sketch animation. It contains literal interpretations of select lyrics while West is portrayed as a taxicab driver working in a bleak city who picks up troubled passengers and encounters a young boy and his mother. The animated segments are interspersed with live-action scenes of West and Adam Levine performing. | [11] | |
"Touch the Sky" | 2006 | Lupe Fiasco | Chris Milk | [12] | |
"Drive Slow" | Paul Wall GLC T.I. |
Hype Williams | [13] | ||
"Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been)" (DJ Premier Remix) | 2007 | KRS-One Nas Rakim |
Thibaut de Longeville | [14] | |
"Throw Some D's" (Remix) • | None | Kanye West | [15] | ||
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" (version 1) | None | Hype Williams | Filmed in a desert, the music video harbors a minimalist visual aesthetic, with scenes of West performing in the barren, wide-open landscape. | [16] | |
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" (version 2) | None | Michael Blieden | The alternate version features comedian Zach Galifianakis and folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham and filmed at Galifianakis' farm in North Carolina. West is absent from the unscripted, low-budget music video, which instead sees Galifianakis and Oldham lip-synching to his lines. | [17] | |
"Stronger" | None | Hype Williams | [18] | ||
"Good Life" | T-Pain | SoMe Jonas and Francois |
[19] | ||
"Flashing Lights" (version 1) • | 2008 | Dwele | Kanye West Spike Jonze |
Filmed entirely in slow-motion, the video has a Ford Mustang Bullitt roll onto the screen and stop at dusk in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Playboy model Rita G. exits the vehicle dressed in a wig, fur coat and large black sunglasses. After walking a distance away from the car, stripping down to her lingerie and setting her clothes on fire, she walks back to the car and opens the trunk to reveal a bound and gagged West. She gently strokes his face and gives him a light kiss before retrieving a nearby shovel and bludgeons him to death as the camera pans out. | [20] |
"Flashing Lights" (version 2) | Dwele | N/A | [21] | ||
"Flashing Lights" (version 3) | Dwele | [22] | |||
"Homecoming" | Chris Martin | Hype Williams | Filmed in the city of Chicago, the black-and-white music video features a montage of West visiting several different areas of his hometown, with slow-motion shots and camera angles highlighting its buildings, streets, monuments and citizens. Chicago hip-hop group L.E.P. Bogus Boys and rapper Common make cameos. | [23] | |
"Champion" | None | NABIL | The video carries an Olympic theme and revolves around a puppet version of Kanye West participating in the 100-meter dash at a fictitious sporting event known as the Unified Games. Flashbacks display the extensive amount of training that the puppet undertook before the race commences. | [24] | |
"Good Morning" • | None | Kanye West Takashi Murakami |
An animated video centered around West's anthropomorphic teddy bear mascot Dropout Bear. He overcomes various obstacles while racing through a futuristic city in an effort to reach his college campus in time to attend his graduation ceremony. | [25] | |
"Love Lockdown" | None | Simon Henwood | [26] | ||
"Heartless" | None | Hype Williams | [27] | ||
"Welcome to Heartbreak" | 2009 | Kid Cudi | NABIL | The music video was filmed in Los Angeles and utilizes the visual technique of datamoshing. It contains multi-faceted textures of compression artifacts laced throughout its technicolor visuals. The bleeding pixels, calculated moshes and other manipulated imagery makes it seem as if the software that rendered the final video output a low-resolution, artifact-laden product. West and Kid Cudi appear at various intervals within the transitional music video, with certain shots in super-slow-motion. | [28] |
"Amazing" | Young Jeezy | Hype Williams | [29] | ||
"Paranoid" | Mr Hudson | NABIL | [30] | ||
"Spaceship" • | GLC Consequence |
Kanye West | [31] | ||
"Two Words" | Mos Def Freeway Harlem Boys Choir |
Coodie and Chike | [32] | ||
"Street Lights" | None | Javier Longobardo | [33] | ||
"Coldest Winter" | 2010 | None | NABIL | [34] | |
"Power" | Dwele | Marco Brambilla | [35] | ||
"Runaway" • | Pusha T | Kanye West | [36] | ||
"All of the Lights" | 2011 | Rihanna | Hype Williams | [37] | |
"Monster" | Jay-Z Rick Ross Nicki Minaj Bon Iver |
Jake Nava | [38] | ||
"Otis" | Jay-Z Otis Redding |
Spike Jonze | [39] | ||
"Niggas in Paris" • | 2012 | Jay-Z | Kanye West | The music video is composed from live concert footage of Jay-Z and West performing at the Staples Center during the last Los Angeles venue on their Watch the Throne Tour. The footage are treated with kaleidoscopic effects as well as images of big cats and Paris landmarks. It also includes a brief video clip taken from the comedy film Blades of Glory. The music video was accompanied by a warning message to viewers with photosensitive epilepsy regarding its extensive use of flashing lights. | [40] |
"Lost in the World" | Bon Iver | Ruth Hodben | [41] | ||
"No Church in the Wild" | Jay-Z Frank Ocean |
Romain Gavras | [42] | ||
"Mercy" | Big Sean Pusha T 2 Chainz |
NABIL | [43] | ||
"I Wish You Would" / "Cold" |
DJ Khaled Rick Ross |
Hype Williams | [44] | ||
"Black Skinhead" | 2013 | None | Nick Knight | [45] | |
"Bound 2" | None | The music video features West's then-fiancée Kim Kardashian riding topless with him atop a motorbike in front of the Monument Valley mountain range and other green-screen landscapes. | [46] | ||
"Only One" |
2015 | Paul McCartney | Spike Jonze | [47] | |
"FourFiveSeconds" | Rihanna Paul McCartney |
Inez and Vinoodh | [48] | ||
"All Day" / "I Feel Like That" |
Theophilus London Allan Kingdom Paul McCartney |
Steve McQueen | [49] | ||
"Famous" • | 2016 | None | Kanye West Eli Linnetz |
The video displays West sharing a bed with the nude, sleeping bodies of famous celebrities. Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Ray J, Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, and Bill Cosby are all shown as wax figures. | [50] |
"Wolves" | None | Steven Klein | [51] | ||
"Fade" • | None | Kanye West Eli Linnetz |
The music video prominently features Teyana Taylor performing an extensive dance routine inside a gym. She is joined by her husband, Sacramento Kings guard Iman Shumpert, during a shower scene. West's inspirations for the video include Flashdance, the Ohio Players album covers, 1980s pornography, John Carpenter films, The Fly, Dancing with the Stars, the Olympics and the NBA championship. | [52] | |
"I Love It" | 2018 | Lil Pump | Amanda Adelson Kanye West |
||
"Follow God" |
2019 | None | Jake Schreier | ||
"Closed On Sunday" |
None | Jake Schreier | |||
"Wash Us in the Blood" |
Travis Scott | Arthur Jafa | The video uses split-screen presentation throughout and features footage of West's Saint Pablo Tour, police brutality, a gospel choir, people with masks on that struggle to breathe, goats, Afrofuturism, Breonna Taylor dancing, Ahmaud Arbery soon before his shooting, protests, church services, cars doing donuts, scenes from Grand Theft Auto V, computer-generated images of West, imprisoned people, and an unmanned drone. | [53] |
As featured artist[edit]
Cameo appearances[edit]
Video albums[edit]
Title | Album details | Description |
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The College Dropout Video Anthology | Contains the music videos for songs from his debut studio album, The College Dropout (2004). | |
Late Orchestration |
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Features his concert at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. |
Late Registration Video Anthology | Contains the music videos for the singles from his second studio album, Late Registration (2004). | |
VH1 Storytellers: Kanye West |
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Contains the concert television special of West's live performances on VH1 Storytellers, originally aired on VH1 on February 28, 2009. |
Filmography[edit]
Title | Year | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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Fade to Black | 2004 | Himself | Uncredited cameo | |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party | 2005 | Himself | Guest performance | |
State Property 2 | 2005 | Himself | Cameo appearance | [126] |
The Love Guru | 2008 | Himself | Cameo appearance | [127] |
We Were Once a Fairytale | 2009 | Himself | Short film, directed by Spike Jonze | |
Runaway | 2010 | Griffin | Short film, also director and writer | |
Cruel Summer | 2012 | Ibrahim | Short film, also director, producer and writer | |
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | 2013 | J.J. Jackson of MTV News | Uncredited cameo | [128] |
Jesus Is King | 2019 | Himself | Short film, also producer | |
A Man Named Scott | 2021 | Himself | Documentary film |
Television[edit]
Commercials[edit]
Company and product | Year | Director(s) | Featured song(s) | Description | Ref. |
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Boost Mobile | 2004 | Chris Robinson | "Where You At? (The Whole City Behind Us)" | The video showcases West, Ludacris and The Game using nationwide Boost Walkie-Talkie to exchange rhymes that pay tribute to their respective hometowns on location. West is shown rapping in front of a mixing console inside the control room of a recording studio in Chicago. | [136] |
Pepsi | 2005 | Spike Lee | "Heard 'Em Say" | The commercial premiered during the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. Entitled "Timeline," it uses special effects and computer graphics to illustrate West walking past iconic backdrops of various major cities, including Paris, Tokyo and Chicago, while leaving a trailing aura fueled by Pepsi. | [137] |
Absolut Vodka | 2008 | Ulf Johansson | "Truth or Dare" |
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