Kanye Krazy

2.2.21

Lil Durk ‘Kanye Krazy’ Music Video Released 1.30.21

This past Friday, Lil Durk dropped the Deluxe version of his latest album, The Voice. A now thirty-three song project, includes a track titled Kanye Krazy, in which Lil Durk has also released a music video to. The video is produced by Cole Bennett, and has immediately got the game talking loud about the video. Whether that is a tribute, or a subtle snub, that is up to you to decide.

With our without the music video, Lil Durk wrote a song titled Kanye Krazy. Lil Durk has the ability to write emotional music, while still sounding like he only about the streets. This song at first may sound like he is going crazy in the mind over a relationship, but that relationship is not necessarily with a female. It could with his friends, or rather, with himself. He contemplates the negative things that he has been through, replays his mistakes, and covers it up with drinking.

The first verse can be played with to suggest Durk is nodding at certain infamous situations that happened over the course of Kanye West’s career. However, the second verse, is a bit more direct. He starts out the verse by saying “You don’t have the answers Sway” and finishes with “Bringing all my K's, I had to seal it.” Kanye West has infamously got into a bit of a heated moment with Sway on his radio show, that will go down in history. Brining his K’s, probably literally means weapons, but in a wordplay position to also allude to the Kardashian family. Durk closes the song by saying “Kanye is crazy, but this is the real me.”

Perhaps, Lil Durk is simply saying that we all go through our own things and handle them in our own ways? The chorus repeats, “I’m going Kanye Krazy” ten times. Kanye has certainly received a lot of backlash this past year, and really overtime, for the way he has handled certain situations. We have learned that Kanye does struggle with bipolar disorder, and has unfortunately been publicly ridiculed by some mistakes that he has made, while battling this disease. To make a song about Kanye Krazy, I thought was a bit odd, but after really listening, and viewing the music video, I believe this was to simmer down the negativity, and hopefully shed some light, on the situation.

Lil Durk is from Chicago, just as Ye had grown up in. There is no doubt Durk listed to Kanye West growing up, and probably looked at him very highly as a powerful and successful artist who claims the same city he was from. With that, Durk dropped a music video from the song, which I really cannot say was anything but homage to the artist, and the works that he has presented over time.

Cole Bennett is an amazing video director, who always seems to create fun visuals with the tasks he is presented. The video begins with white piano in the corner of the screen, in a vacant concrete parking garage. Lil Durk arrives to the piano in a white jacket suit with a black lapel and bow, as a group of eight ballerinas follow, dancing as Durk begins to sing. This is the set from Kanye West’s Runaway video in 2010.

Next set, Durk is walking through the halls of a museum in a massive boxy shirt, pants and chain. We all remember this one. Kanye West and Lil Pump teamed up in 2018 for the I Love It, song and music video. The video just as absurd as the song was. I cannot believe this was over two years ago. Or that this collaboration ever happened.

Even more recently, Kanye West is remembered for becoming friends with our former president, Donald Trump. He then went on to say he wished to run for president himself. Though he went on a couple of rallies to speak his idea into existence, he fell rather short. Lil Durk plays on the presidential aspect of Kanye’s life, by wearing a fake Make America Great Again hat, as he stands at a podium and pretends to point at people in a crowd and respond to questions.

As the chorus comes into play, we have another infamous moment of early Kanye West music video scenes. Bound 2, from 2013. Lil Durk has the scene down to the point where he found the same exact shirt Kanye wore almost a decade ago. Kanye made his scene a bit controversial, which Durk left out, but the scene is extremely recognizable, nonetheless.

Remember the shutter shades? Oh I remember spending so much of my own money running to Metro Park back in the day so that I could have a pair of shutter shade sunglasses just like Kanye West. If you missed that stage, no, you cannot see a thing out of those glasses. Durk takes us back to Kanye West’s Stronger music video from 2009. From the shutter shades to the cement room, all the memories are flooding through.

The next couple of scenes depict major publicity moments from Kanye West. From a Sway in the Morning Interview, to interrupting Taylor Swift at the awards show, to hosting a Sunday Service.

We then go back to the early 2000s. In 2009 Kanye dropped a crazy graphic visual to Heartless, which is represented in the Kanye Krazy visuals with some more modern artwork and techniques. Everyone’s favorite Kanye West bear also makes an appearance.

As the song hits the chorus for the last time, Lil Durk recreates his version of Kanye’s Famous music video from 2016. Kanye got some praise, and a lot of backlash for this video. He recreates a famous painting, but with twelve celebrities naked in a long bed, with Kanye in the middle. They are all synthetically made bodies, but nonetheless, caused an uproar to see George W. Bush. Donald Trump. Anna Wintour. Rihanna. Chris Brown. Taylor Swift. Kanye West. Kim Kardashian West. Ray J. Amber Rose. Caitlyn Jenner. Bill Cosby all together in this manner. Durk recreates this with a dozen women, whom are real, but wearing underwear.

The credits roll and appear as all different track lists from Kanye’s recent albums.

At first, I heard the clip to the chorus of the song and I was like, I really do not like this. But after listening to the whole song, it sounds good, like Durk always does, and I think there is a bigger picture to the whole “Kanye Krazy” thing. Kanye Krazy has become a bit of a term the public has been using when someone is being over the top, but I think this is meant to shed some light onto the situation, and to say that we all go crazy sometimes. We just have to figure out how to work with whatever our situation may be.

The music video for sure brought back so many amazing memories for a truly amazing artist, for the past two decades. Artists such as Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, and Quavo had shared positive feedback on the video itself. What does Kanye think about the whole thing? We’ll keep a close watch on that Twitter account.