LINKED: West's Moment of Power in Illumination?



We'd really love to highlight on this particular video clip featuring a song by Kanye West called "Power" because there is something pretty 'fishy' about it; in certain particular, the imagery that greets the viewer as the video zooms out slowly to reveal the bigger picture - a pretty abstract depiction of power. Maybe it is just a product of our wild imagination, maybe we have just read too much of the whole Illuminati-world domination thing... maybe. I mean, yeah, the video is pretty slick in the way that it does not conform to the standard rap music video clip template where young men in baggy cloth wearing excessive jewelery tearing down a street in a convertible (or a marque sports car) looking swag. Good thing there because with his very large ego (apparently), at least he does not carry it over into his videos where he could have made an embarrassing joke of his own self, which would have been worse.

Song-wise? We kind of liked it - because it was set to a sample of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man". (One of) Prog rock legend and a rap legend-in-making coming together in a video clip with lots of things going on, set to a very good piece of rapping, it certainly is pushing all the right buttons for grabbing just about anyone's attention. Probably it's only an artistic statement by the director of the video clip; just don't tell that to these people who really believed that the world is being run in the background by a secret society that wields an unbelievable amount of power tantamount to that of God. But my do they have some points to prove.