Fri 17 May 2013
Watch: Kanye West “New Slaves” (Full Video and Lyrics)
Posted by Miss Info under Good For Hip Hop , Hmmm? , New Music , Videos[72] Comments
MissInfoTV was live on the scene for Kanye West’s “New Slaves” video premiere in Brooklyn…And now here’s a full video of the song! (in case you almost caught a seizure from watching 7-second Vine clips over and over; )
So what do you think about the song and the spectacle?
Honestly, more interesting than the imagery are Kanye’s angry lyrics…
Read them, plus footage from locations across North America after the jump!
Toronto – Royal Ontario Museum (Thanks to ILLIONAIRE)
New York City – 5th Avenue Prada Store
Chicago – Wrigley Field
VIBE has posted another version of the lyrics: Who got it right?
[Verse 1]
My mama was raised in an era when/Clean water was only served to the fairer skin.
Doing clothes you would have thought I had help/But they wouldn’t be satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself.
You see its broke nigga racism/That’s that don’t touch anything in the store
And there’s rich nigga racism/That’s that come here please buy more
What you want a Bentley, fur coat and diamond chain?/All you blacks want all the same things
Used to only be niggas /Now everybody play me
Spending everything on that Alexander Wang/New Slaves[Hook]
You see it’s leaders and it’s followers/But I’d rather be a dick than a swallower
You see it’s leaders and it’s followers/But I’d rather be a dick than a swallower[Verse 2]
I throw these Maybach keys/I wear my heart on my sleeve
I know that we the new slaves/I see the blood on the leaves
I see the blood on the leaves/I see the blood on the leaves
I know that we the new slaves/I see the blood on the leaves
They throwing hate at me/Want me to stay at ease
Fuck you and your corporation/Y’all niggas can’t control me
I know that we the new slaves/I know that we the new slaves
I’m about to wild the fuck out/I’m going Bobby Boucher
I know that pussy ain’t free/You niggas pussy, ain’t me
Y’all throwing contracts at me/You know that niggas can’t read
Throw him some Maybach keys/Fuck it, c’est la vie
I know that we the new slaves/Y’all niggas can’t fuck with me
Y’all niggas can’t fuck with Ye/Y’all niggas can’t fuck with Ye
I move my family out the country /So you can’t see where I stay
So go and grab the reporters/So I can smash their recorders
Yeah they confuse us with bullshit/Like the New World Order
Meanwhile the DEA/Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up/They tryna make new slaves
See that’s that private-owned prison/Get your piece today
They prolly all in the Hamptons/Braggin’ ’bout they maid
Fuck you and your Hampton house/I’ll fuck your Hampton spouse
Came on her Hampton blouse/And in her Hampton mouth
Y’all ’bout to turn shit up/I’m ’bout to tear shit down
I’m ’bout to air shit out/Now what the fuck they gon’ say now?Kanye West “New Slaves” lyrics: Lyrics assistance provided by RapGenius
My Momma was raised in an era when,
Clean water was only served to the fairer skin.
Doin clothes you would have thought I had help
I wouldn’t be satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself.
You see its broke nigga racing
That’s that don’t touch anything in the store
Like this rich nigga racing
That’s that come here please buy more
What you want a Bentley, fur coat and diamond chain?
All you blacks want all the same things
Used to only be niggas now everybody play me
Spending everything on that Alexander Wang
New Slaves[Hook x2]
You see it’s leaders and it’s followers
But I’d rather be a dick than a swallower[Verse 2]
I throw these Maybach keys
I wear my heart on my sleeve
I know that we the new slaves
I see the blood on the leaves
I see the blood on the leaves
I see the blood on the leaves
I know that we the new slaves
I see the blood on the leaves
They throwing hate at me
Want me to stay at ease
Fuck you and your corporation
Y’all niggas can’t control me
I know that we the new slaves
I know that we the new slaves
I’m about to wild the fuck out
I’m going Bobby Boucher
I know that pussy ain’t free
You niggas pussy, ain’t me
Y’all throwing contracts at me
You know that niggas can’t read
Throw on some Maybach keys
?? that shit I be
I know that we the new slaves
Y’all niggas can’t fuck with me
Y’all niggas can’t fuck with Ye
Y’all niggas can’t fuck with Ye
I’ll move my family out the country
So you can’t see where I stay
So go and grab the reporters
So I can smash their recorders
Say that Confucius was some bullshit like the New World Order
Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up
They tryna make new slaves
See that’s that private owned prison
Get your piece today
Prolly all in the Hamptons
Braggin’ ’bout their maid
Fuck you and your Hampton house
I’ll fuck your Hampton spouse
Came on her Hampton blouse
And in her Hampton mouth
Y’all ’bout to turn shit up
I’m ’bout to tear shit down
I’m ’bout to air shit out
Now what the fuck they gon’ say now?
Related: Kanye West Just Debuted His #NewSlaves Video On A Wall in Williamsburg! (Video)
May 18th, 2013 at 12:05 am
This Is What The Fuck Im Talking About! #KanyeWest
May 18th, 2013 at 12:27 am
OOOOoooooooooooooooooh k! Uuummmmmmm! Can i get my ball back please, i think i hear my mom calling?
THis is a long conversation for another time smh
*You cant be verbally active and physically perpetuating
May 18th, 2013 at 12:43 am
Lawd Jesus I like this Angry Krazy Kanye. But……. You done f’d an got a WHITE WOMAN pregnant so Imma need you to come a lil better w/your ACTIONS but I love the WORDS!
May 18th, 2013 at 1:16 am
spectacle??? Damn Info… Kanye refused to give you a drop or something???
May 18th, 2013 at 1:30 am
Kim passes as a white women but she isn’t technically white.
May 18th, 2013 at 1:31 am
She’s actually not white, she is Armenian..
May 18th, 2013 at 2:57 am
musically, he never disappoints. mannnn. we love yeezy season is back. haaaaah.
May 18th, 2013 at 5:34 am
Armenians are crackers too
May 18th, 2013 at 6:30 am
to me his verse’s alienate most people constantly bragging about things most people will never have and now he’s whining that he’s expected to buy them!! and he always uses racism as a foil for what a dick he is, like thats why he’s a dick, im not buying it.
May 18th, 2013 at 7:42 am
Woah… Kanye feelin some kind of way. Not always a fan but diggin the visuals, subliminal and the anger LOL
May 18th, 2013 at 8:51 am
Plagiarism!
he stole the song from a hungarian band called Omega!
http://youtu.be/CGt-rTDkMcM
May 18th, 2013 at 8:55 am
Making her literally as Caucasian as it gets.
May 18th, 2013 at 9:20 am
Kanye West does it again, I’m looking forward to his new album.
May 18th, 2013 at 10:30 am
In the era when a black man is president, Kanye is still talking of slavery.
SMH
May 18th, 2013 at 10:48 am
She’s only half Armenian.
May 18th, 2013 at 10:56 am
mad lyrics!!!!
May 18th, 2013 at 11:20 am
He’s a wannabe martyr.
May 18th, 2013 at 11:39 am
Typical Kanye. There’s nothing wrong with sampling, but he always quietly passes the music off as his own. And then there’s the fact that he’s been sued by like five different artists.
May 18th, 2013 at 11:46 am
WHO GIVES A FUCK what KIM nationality is. This isn’t about KIM its about the music YEEEZZZY killed this record the whole content lyrically and production is crazy #GENIUS
May 18th, 2013 at 11:50 am
Having a Black President doesn’t mean anything. You ever heard of giving people what they think they want to shut them up? Hence, a black president. The president has no power. Anything he wants can be vetoed. He is a figurehead.
May 18th, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Masterful marketing…As only someone as popular as he could pull off.
May 18th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
idiot. Its called sampling
May 18th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
How is sampling plagiarism?
May 18th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
smartest comment here
May 18th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
right! she white
May 18th, 2013 at 2:51 pm
u said it honey chile
May 18th, 2013 at 3:06 pm
TRUUUUUUUUUUU^
May 18th, 2013 at 3:07 pm
Both her parents are Armenian. Born in America.
May 18th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
No phatosas is right, racism on the level Kanye is talking about is a distant memory, it’s always going to exist but Kanye wasn’t even a twitch in hiis dads pants when it was at its worst, and it definitely does not exist in the circles he moves in now, as for that president stuff !!! What do you want? A black man on the moon?
May 18th, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Armenians smell and don’t wear deodorant. Thats the real reason Kanye “whiteman lover” West is mad.
May 18th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Let’s see what Ja Rule has to say about this…
May 18th, 2013 at 5:05 pm
His personal life/decision-making aside (all questionable), he has a point here. The prison industry is a huge money market (privatized and all) and it’s no secret who’s filling up those prisons. At the same time, don’t do the crime if you don’t want to do the time. Then you won’t ever have to worry about being a “new slave”. I’m glad that as an artist, Kanye can rap “consciously” and still be heard on the radio/commercially (a feat in itself). Listening to his earlier work, I thought that Kanye was lost forever.
May 18th, 2013 at 6:15 pm
you do know slavery was just only 100 years ago right? talk to ya grandma bout it if that hoe still alive.
May 18th, 2013 at 6:36 pm
Great track, dropped some dopee lyrics here. I see this song is pissing a lot of people off, that’s what good art does.
And if you think racism doesn’t exist in this world, then you live in a bubble. Go and meet people who don’t look, sound, or think anything like you for greater perspective.
May 18th, 2013 at 6:53 pm
Royal Toronto Museum and 5th Avenue Prada Store?
Thanks for telling us who the audience is Yeezy.
May 18th, 2013 at 7:19 pm
New Slaves? I feel like some, “old slaves”, if they were still around, would be disgusted by this. Maybe it’s just me… but having a line about getting a maybach in the same song you call yourself a “slave” is one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever seen/heard/read in my life!
LISTEN TO MORE THAN THE BEAT AND THE FLOW FOLKS!
May 18th, 2013 at 7:21 pm
I see what you mean… but that’s not what art does universally. It’s meant to deliver a message and this one is extremely convoluted and pretty poorly thought out
May 18th, 2013 at 7:25 pm
Kanye west is the biggest hypocrite of all time…you can’t do songs like this then go home to your white woman…pot calling kettle black…he is the biggest attention whore alongside his baby mums in the world. Lost all respect I had for once he got with his whoring chick Kim Kartrashian
May 18th, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Whoa Whoa Whoa…This isn’t about him being with a white woman. It’s about WHICH white woman that he’s with. The one he’s with is, arguably, the world’s most infamous materialist and prostitute/slave. Bequeathed a pornographic legacy by her own mother. Kanye, baby daddy, there’s no truth in this kind of hypocrisy. You have a lot of work to do.
May 18th, 2013 at 11:35 pm
you didn’t get it.
May 18th, 2013 at 11:55 pm
Its clear majority of the people postin on this song didnt really hear the song. YOu all arguing about color. He talkin mainly about corporate slavery. and how corporations are tryin to enslave us all on the low. Just like the No church in the wild video. Just like the Power video. but nah yall arguing about other stuff. The lyrics clearly “I throw these Maybach keys/I wear my heart on my sleeve
I know that we the new slaves/I see the blood on the leaves
I see the blood on the leaves/I see the blood on the leaves
I know that we the new slaves/I see the blood on the leaves
They throwing hate at me/Want me to stay at ease
Fuck you and your corporation/Y’all niggas can’t control me”
its like in all his interviews he said ” my moma goen so what can you do to me now” meanin he can say and do what he want without worrying about anyone doin anything to hurt him at the time.
May 19th, 2013 at 1:01 am
Who!?
May 19th, 2013 at 1:36 am
Yeah well he shouldn’t be doing conscious or real music as he is the biggest cash cow around. It’s all making as much money as possible for him, he doesn’t care about anyone but himself! You and kim are the biggest corporation slaves as you both want to be seen with the latest or unique car, handbag, trainers, fashion etc. kanye stop being a hypocrite and you are not real you are as fake as your girlfriends booty!
May 19th, 2013 at 1:37 am
Yeah well he shouldn’t be doing conscious or real music as he is the biggest cash cow around. It’s all making as much money as possible for him, he doesn’t care about anyone but himself! You and kim are the biggest corporation slaves as you both want to be seen with the latest or unique car, handbag, trainers, fashion etc. kanye stop being a hypocrite and you are not real you are as fake as your girlfriends booty! You are the new slave!
May 19th, 2013 at 1:58 am
Seriously .. did everyone on this site really misinterpret this msg.. wow
Its about the illuminatti… omg why is everyone so literal. Think creatively and intuitively. This is why religion and misunderstood and misused. God help you all.
May 19th, 2013 at 2:00 am
Seriously .. did everyone on this site really misinterpret this msg.. wow
Its about the illuminatti… omg why is everyone so literal. Think creatively and intuitively. This is why religion and misunderstood and misused. Mannnnn
May 19th, 2013 at 2:30 am
“He talkin mainly about corporate slavery”
Yes he is.. How much do those Air Yeezys go for?
May 19th, 2013 at 8:55 am
*checks calendar* No…..it wasn’t 100 years ago.. Also, further up with the veto comment, Veto is an executive power only. So you have it exactly backwards.
May 19th, 2013 at 9:00 am
I feel what you’re saying, but the track has two main themes: One, we are prisoners to our own consumerism. Which he’s a poster boy for. And the other this idea that black people are being repressed as a business strategy. I’ll concede that there is a problem when prisons are disproportionately filling up with one race versus another, but other than complaining what has he done, or does he plan to do? Trade in your Maybach keys for some change dude.
May 19th, 2013 at 9:07 am
is it being premiered in 66 cities becuz it will never get mainstream exposure? kanye is smart this is literally bringing it to the streets
May 19th, 2013 at 10:14 am
Her mother is white, her dad was armenian. being white is a class in america. whites back in the day didn’t fuck with the irish or italians until they let them in the club….. now they are white.
May 19th, 2013 at 10:29 am
That’s actually true. She’s Armenian. The country was controlled by the Soviet Union. My husband is Russian and he said that White Soviets considered them black and would attack, assault, and call them the N-word. They still do not consider them white even now. Unfortunately, Armenians are still physically attacked alot in Russia.I’ve met some that confirmed this as well. Interesting all the Armenian women I’ve met are with black or mexican men. I think they are a bit ostracized by white men who tend to prefer less ethnic looking women.However, Black men consider them white godesses, so they still win.
May 19th, 2013 at 10:30 am
Kanye is so weird.
May 19th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
Your responses are an accurate response of society & it’s passive/vulnerability. I hope you use your minds when listening and interpreting art before opening your mouths. Racism is the most prominent form of social interactivity & non-inter communication that occurs in the world , daily. It is very much alive & will never die as long as there are stereotypes , superficial expectations & descendants from bloodlines with historical stigmas attached. forever. Ye is a marketing mogul & purposeful artist, for we are all here analyzing his art as he intended. Peace
May 19th, 2013 at 12:39 pm
Your responses are an accurate response of society & it’s passive/ vulnerability. I hope you use your minds when listening and interpreting art before opening your mouths. Racism is the most prominent form of social interactivity & non-inter communication that occurs in the world , daily. It is very much alive & will never die as long as there are stereotypes , superficial expectations & descendants from bloodlines with historical stigmas attached. forever. Ye is a marketing mogul & purposeful artist, for we are all here analyzing his art as he intended. Peace
May 19th, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Your responses are an accurate response of society & it’s passive/ vulnerability. I hope you use your minds when listening and interpreting art before opening your mouths.
May 19th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Your responses are an accurate response of society and it’s passive/vulnerability. I hope you use your minds when listening and interpreting art before opening your mouths. Racism is the most prominent form of social interactivity and non-inter communication that occurs in the world , daily. It is very much alive and will never die as long as there are stereotypes , superficial expectations and descendants from bloodlines with historical stigmas attached. forever. Ye is a marketing mogul and purposeful artist, for we are all here analyzing his art as he intended. Peace
May 19th, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Your responses are an accurate response of society and it’s passive/vulnerability.
May 19th, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Your responses are an accurate response of society and it’s passive vulnerability. I hope you use your minds when listening and interpreting art before opening your mouths. Racism is the most prominent form of social interactivity and non-inter communication that occurs in the world , daily. It is very much alive and will never die as long as there are stereotypes , superficial expectations and descendants from bloodlines with historical stigmas attached. forever. Ye is a marketing mogul and purposeful artist, for we are all here analyzing his art as he intended. Peace
May 19th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
I won’t bother wasting my time listening to this fool’s message. Because, talented as he may be, he’s still a fool at the core. Having a child with a celebrity whore, acting like a loudmouth self-righteous moron on t.v frequently, cross dressing, being a Euro fashion groupie. I’m a 30-something dude from the South Bronx and I don’t identify with anything this clown identifies with and represents. This cat ain’t hip hop.
May 19th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
i miss the college days …
May 19th, 2013 at 6:44 pm
Yeah well kanye has no right to singing or rapping about such things when he is living it out in reality..I’m ashamed to say this but his mothers passing really messed him up and instead of seeing a psychiatrist or a counsellor he has gone about it the wrong way!
May 19th, 2013 at 7:36 pm
At the beginning of the day and at the end of the day we all vote with our dollars, our food stamps, our direct choice to accept something. We are living in times where corporations thrive on our weakness and vices more than another other generations before us. Ppl get pissed or hate on shit produced in the US, but continue to buy products from China.
Even if your ass bought a pair of Hand Made Nike Wovens for 170.00, it takes 8 hours to hand construct a pair. Break that shit down and think about how many shoes Nike sales to the public and we purchase, even tho Nike is suppose to have the cleanest and best factories over seas.
We are all slaves in the new world order of the $. spend, get, make, purchase more, let ppl starve in 3rd world countries while we go to hypebeast to look for the newest shit, others go to runway shows, etc. this is not a guilt trip. This is just the truth.
Artists at this level just have a bigger platform to voice their thoughts and opinions.
Besides, it’s about time Ye ranted again. Life in cycles…
May 19th, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Industrial prison complex on full blast. America is not a country it’s a corporation… Bout time the poets put it on blast.
May 19th, 2013 at 9:47 pm
Armenian women in Los Angeles date black men because they tend to be to curvy for other races. It’s VERY common and not just for the Kardashians. L.A. Is the interracial Mecca of the country.
May 20th, 2013 at 12:47 am
damN this is a legendary moment I wonder who’s next to pull this yeezy stunt lol can’t wait for the LP to drOpout ^.~
May 20th, 2013 at 3:10 am
I think he’s being a hipocrite. I truly feel its not real hip-hop. its all hype to sell albums. The little Wizard of Oz projection screen in the 66 sites across the globe, all hype to create the buzz & turn the wheel. Great for publicity and PR. His recent bs stories are a total embarrassment. I was a loyal fan till he sold out for a Trashian. His rant and Lil tirade about making ‘real music but ur renouncing ur celebrity status is bull#@it.
In this new song, New Slaves he bitches about his fate as a gifted, influential, world-famous, fabulously wealthy artist with an adoring fan base. And so he says, “F— you and your Hampton house,” and goes on to describe in pornographic detail what he’s going to do to your Hampton spouse. There’s also the obligatory reference to the paparazzi: “So go and grab the reporters, so I can smash their recorders.” Careful ‘Ye this is what is ur Baby’s Mama was built on. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
The catchy hook of “New Slaves” has Kanye telling us there are leaders and followers, and he’d rather be the former. In the day of Reality Tv, the more shocking, the most disgusting or obnoxious, the bigger the douchebag hence Kanye would rather be a dick.
“New Slaves” literally, is B.S. on Kanye and his “problems” and complaints. He doesn’t have real people problems.
The paparazzi? Oh poor you, but you’re with Kim Kardashian, whose family practically sends out holiday cards to them and hacks that “hound” them every moment. She’s in love with the paparazzi. So stop bitching.
Both Kanye & Kim embraces the nouveau riche lifestyle. Plus with his disgustinly vain insanely superficial girlfriend? West reportedly purchased a $91,000 Hermes T-shirt, no joke. The shopping the snobbery. Get real Kanye u don’t have to lie to kick it. Wasn’t it his Trashy girlfriend who posted an Instagram pic of her wrist adorned with multiple gold bracelets worth more than $65,000 — a little gift from the boyfriend. Of course, that’s nothing compared to the $750,000 Lamborghini Kim bought for Kanye, or even the $200,000 Bentley Kanye bought for Kim’s mom.
Not to mention the $11 million house in Bel-Air recently purchased by Kim and Kanye. And the multi-million-dollar properties they’re reportedly scouting in Miami, Paris and London.
Hey, it’s their money and they can do what they want with it. Ur the one being a New Slave.
But nobody embraces capitalism, consumerism and crass commercialism more than Kim and Kanye.
May 20th, 2013 at 6:32 pm
i totally agree with you ge ge at least someone with sense and not blind to the foolishness that kanye tries to fool people with
May 22nd, 2013 at 12:27 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6asOv6HkY
June 18th, 2013 at 1:27 pm
This is what really gets me… Slaves were a part of history and its part of the past and it worked to make the world what it is today. It made the older generation of African Americans some very nice respectful humans and yet African Americans today whom have no respect and never will and are not the ones that were slaves are the ones always bitching about the past. Create a new future and stop living in the past. The north and south was not about slaves it was about north versus the south and everyone should be proud of the south and yes we did lose however we still need to stand strong because in the end everyone needs everybody. So if you have issue or some form of problems get to the root of the real problem and stop thinking it is always about the color of your skin. I don’t hear the Indians complaining as much as the younget black folks do. Get a life get real and solve your own issues without blaming everyone else. Either it is you are the cause of the problem or something else not your skin.
June 18th, 2013 at 1:29 pm
This is what really gets me… Slaves were a part of history and its part of the past and it worked to make the world what it is today. It made the older generation of African Americans some very nice respectful humans and yet African Americans today whom have no respect and never will and are not the ones that were slaves are the ones always bitching about the past. Create a new future and stop living in the past. The north and south was not about slaves it was about north versus the south and everyone should be proud of the south and yes we did lose however we still need to stand strong because in the end everyone needs everybody. So if you have issue or some form of problems get to the root of the real problem and stop thinking it is always about the color of your skin. I don’t hear the Indians complaining as much as the younget black folks do. Get a life get real and solve your own issues without blaming everyone else.
June 18th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Slaves were a part of history and its part of the past and it worked to make the world what it is today. It made the older generation of African Americans some very nice respectful humans and yet African Americans today whom have no respect and never will and are not the ones that were slaves are the ones always bitching about the past. Create a new future and stop living in the past. The north and south was not about slaves it was about north versus the south and everyone should be proud of the south and yes we did lose however we still need to stand strong because in the end everyone needs everybody. So if you have issue or some form of problems get to the root of the real problem and stop thinking it is always about the color of your skin. I don’t hear the Indians complaining as much as the younger black folks do. Get a life get real and solve your own issues without blaming everyone else.