Kanye West Video Inspires Children’s Book

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According to The Fader, Zak Tebbal, an enterprising graphing designer has transforming West’s “Bound 2” music video into a children’s book.

Tebbal feels Kanye is an influential person and has reached many people. The only audience he has not targeted yet is toddlers and Tebbal wants to open that possibility.

“Kanye was the coolest kid in town. And Kim was the cutest chick around.” Literally though, a chick! Tebbal illustrates Kim as a baby chicken. Adorable!

Other chicks distract the main character, Kanye, Kim gets upset and decides to runaway. This is where Kanye realizes that one good chick is worth a thousand chickens and goes on a search for his beloved Kim.

While this is a dope idea, one can definitely disagree with the inspiration being that song and music video is the explicit.

Many children’s books and tales have been inspired by dark twisted fantasies. Huffington Post’s The True Stories Behind Classic Fairy Tales, states that many fairy tales, and the legends behind them, are actually watered-down versions of uncomfortable historical events. These darker stories might be too terrifying for today’s little lambkins, as well as some adults.

If Tebbal’s senior design thesis Kanye inspired book hit the stores tomorrow, would you consider reading this to your toddler?

Here’s the “Bound 2” music video featuring Kim Kardashian-West, if you forgot the original visuals.

New Vince Staples ‘Senorita’ Video

The Long Beach based rapper releases a visual, directed by Ian Pons Jewell, for his

new song “Señorita.” The tone is set with a man who has enormous Cali body art,

holding what appears to be a bible with the letters V and S on the cover (obviously

for Vince Staples). The man mouths the lyrics to the hook sampled from Future’s

“Covered N Money” song, as Vince walks by his odd neighbors unbothered. The man

with tattoos leads a small group that gets smaller the further he walks. It’s not clear

where he’s leading everyone, but everyone is being shot down from the weapons

above.

Rappers are bringing our issues to light and using their voice through music as

instruments. Ian and Vince show that the violence created among each other

within communities serves as entertainment for others. The reality of this video is

sad— from the pimp, to the rednecks grilling in their yard, to the half-naked women!

Both are geniuses for using their imagination to show what America is and how

violence is viewed.

This may be one of those videos that need multiple views to fully understand

what Vince and Ian is trying to portray. The real twist is at the end, so watch closely!

Vince’s first album, Summertime ‘06, is set to release June 30th.