Kanye West - BLKKK SKKKN HEAD (Explicit)

What this video is

Released in July 2013 as the lead single from Kanye West's deliberately anti-commercial sixth album Yeezus (Def Jam / Roc-A-Fella), 'BLKKK SKKKN HEAD' arrived as one of the most confrontational audio-visual statements in mainstream hip-hop history. Co-produced with Daft Punk, the track draws from industrial, punk, and Chicago drill, thematically reclaiming the word 'skinhead' to voice Black defiance against…

Why it matters

A landmark of industrial hip-hop, 'BLKKK SKKKN HEAD' represents hip-hop's most fully realized fusion with punk aggression, industrial texture, and avant-garde fashion-world visual production. The video's use of 3D scanning and motion capture in 2013 was a technically unprecedented approach for a…

The director

Nicholas David Gordon Knight CBE (born 24 November 1958, London) is a British fashion photographer, film director, and founder of SHOWstudio.com (launched November 2000). He studied photography at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, publishing…