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Kanye West videography

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Kanye West in a dark jacket with black sunglasses.
West attending the Vanity Fair kickoff party for the eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009

American rapper Kanye West has released four video albums and been featured in various music videos. He has also made cameo appearances in films and appeared in several television programs.

Music videos

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As lead artist

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Key
 • Denotes music videos directed by Kanye West
Stacey Dash smiling
Stacey Dash plays the role of West's girlfriend in the video for "All Falls Down."
Anna Nicole Smith was one of many to appear in the music video for "The New Workout Plan."
West collaborated with animator Bill Plympton for the second version of the music video for "Heard 'Em Say."
Pamela Anderson appears as West's love interest in the video for "Touch the Sky."
American comedian Zach Galifianakis is featured in the alternate music video for "Can't Tell Me Nothing."
Spike Jonze has directed three music videos for West; the first version of "Flashing Lights," Otis and "Only One."
Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami directed the animated music video for "Good Morning."
Cayman-born model and actress Selita Ebanks is featured in the video for "Runaway" as the phoenix.
A man and woman are looking towards the camera while the woman holds a microphone
The Dutch fashion photographer duo Inez and Vinoodh directed the music video for "FourFiveSeconds."
Steve McQueen directed the music video for "All Day."
Singer and actress Teyana Taylor is prominently featured in the music video for "Fade."
List of music videos as lead artist
Title Year Other performer(s) credited Director(s) Description Ref.
"Through the Wire" • 2003 None Kanye West
Coodie and Chike
[1]
"Jesus Walks" (version 1) 2004 None Michael Haussman The music video was filmed in California and West is portrayed as a preacher rapping before a congregation from a pulpit. All the while, angels guide a prostitute, an alcoholic, and a drug dealer who want to change their lives to his Baptist church. [2]
[3]
"Jesus Walks" (version 2) None Chris Milk [4]
"Jesus Walks" (version 3) • None Kanye West
Coodie and Chike
Shot in black-and-white, the low-budget video was filmed guerrilla-style in West's hometown of Chicago. It depicts Jesus in the present-day following West as he walks from his home and through his neighborhood to church, performing miracles along the way. [5]
"All Falls Down"
Syleena Johnson Chris Milk
Kanye West
Filmed at the Ontario International Airport and shot from a first-person perspective. West escorts his girlfriend, played by Stacey Dash, from inside their car and throughout the departure terminal to catch her flight. The video illustrates their journey literally through West's eyes, but he is momentarily seen rapping lines when passing by reflective mirrors. Certain scenes are in slow-motion and include cameos by Syleena Johnson, Common, and Kel Mitchell playing the various roles of airport employees. [6]
"The New Workout Plan" • None Little X
Kanye West
The video is tailored in the manner of an infomercial for a series of workout tapes. It boasts cameos from Anna Nicole Smith, Tracee Ellis Ross, Esther Baxter, Vida Guerra, Consequence, GLC, Miri Ben-Ari, John Legend, and West's mascot Dropout Bear and features Fonzworth Bentley performing his guest verse from the remix. The long version of the video contains an extended introduction derived from a skit taken from The College Dropout. [7]
"Diamonds from Sierra Leone" 2005 None Hype Williams The music video was shot entirely in black-and-white and filmed on location in the city of Prague. West traverses throughout the Czech Republic capital as the video depicts young African children toiling away in mines juxtaposed with scenes of wealthy Europeans shopping in boutiques and trying on jewelry. The music video concludes with text which reads, "Please purchase conflict-free diamonds." [8]
"Gold Digger" Jamie Foxx A cute girl sticks out her tongue towards the end of this video [9]
"Heard 'Em Say" (version 1) Adam Levine Michel Gondry Filmed in Macy's flagship department store in New York City, the live-action music video expresses a surrealistic Christmas sentiment with the use of special effects. It depicts West as a homeless father of three young children who stay overnight inside the store which seems to come alive. Adam Levine plays a security guard while co-producer Jon Brion makes a brief cameo appearance. [10]
"Heard 'Em Say" (version 2) • Adam Levine Bill Plympton
Joe DeMaio
Kanye West
The animated music video expresses grayscale pencil-sketch animation. It contains literal interpretations of select lyrics while West is portrayed as a taxicab driver working in a bleak city who picks up troubled passengers and encounters a young boy and his mother. The animated segments are interspersed with live-action scenes of West and Adam Levine performing. [11]
"Touch the Sky" 2006 Lupe Fiasco Chris Milk [12]
"Drive Slow" Paul Wall
GLC
T.I.
Hype Williams [13]
"Classic (Better Than I've Ever Been)" (DJ Premier Remix) 2007 KRS-One
Nas
Rakim
Thibaut de Longeville [14]
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" (version 1) None Hype Williams Filmed in a desert, the music video harbors a minimalist visual aesthetic, with scenes of West performing in the barren, wide-open landscape. [15]
"Can't Tell Me Nothing" (version 2) None Michael Blieden The alternate version features comedian Zach Galifianakis and folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham and filmed at Galifianakis' farm in North Carolina. West is absent from the unscripted, low-budget music video, which instead sees Galifianakis and Oldham lip-synching to his lines. [16]
"Stronger" None Hype Williams [17]
"Good Life" T-Pain SoMe
Jonas and Francois
[18]
"Flashing Lights" (version 1) • 2008 Dwele Kanye West
Spike Jonze
Filmed entirely in slow-motion, the video has a Ford Mustang Bullitt roll onto the screen and stop at dusk in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. Playboy model Rita G. exits the vehicle dressed in a wig, fur coat and large black sunglasses. After walking a distance away from the car, stripping down to her lingerie and setting her clothes on fire, she walks back to the car and opens the trunk to reveal a bound and gagged West. She gently strokes his face and gives him a light kiss before retrieving a nearby shovel and bludgeons him to death as the camera pans out. [19]
"Flashing Lights" (version 2) Dwele [20]
"Flashing Lights" (version 3) Dwele [21]
"Homecoming" Chris Martin Hype Williams Filmed in the city of Chicago, the black-and-white music video features a montage of West visiting several different areas of his hometown, with slow-motion shots and camera angles highlighting its buildings, streets, monuments and citizens. Chicago hip-hop group L.E.P. Bogus Boys and rapper Common make cameos. [22]
"Champion" None NABIL The video carries an Olympic theme and revolves around a puppet version of Kanye West participating in the 100-meter dash at a fictitious sporting event known as the Unified Games. Flashbacks display the extensive amount of training that the puppet undertook before the race commences. [23]
"Good Morning" • None Kanye West
Takashi Murakami
An animated video centered around West's anthropomorphic teddy bear mascot Dropout Bear. He overcomes various obstacles while racing through a futuristic city in an effort to reach his college campus in time to attend his graduation ceremony. [24]
"Love Lockdown" None Simon Henwood [25]
"Heartless" None Hype Williams [26]
"Welcome to Heartbreak" 2009 Kid Cudi NABIL The music video was filmed in Los Angeles and utilizes the visual technique of datamoshing. It contains multi-faceted textures of compression artifacts laced throughout its technicolor visuals. The bleeding pixels, calculated moshes and other manipulated imagery makes it seem as if the software that rendered the final video output a low-resolution, artifact-laden product. West and Kid Cudi appear at various intervals within the transitional music video, with certain shots in super-slow-motion. [27]
"Amazing" Young Jeezy Hype Williams [28]
"Paranoid" Mr Hudson NABIL [29]
"Spaceship" • GLC
Consequence
Kanye West The videos, made for songs from The College Dropout, were shelved in 2005 in anticipation of his forthcoming sophomore album [30]
"Two Words" Mos Def
Freeway
Harlem Boys Choir
Coodie and Chike [31]
"Street Lights" None Javier Longobardo [32]
"Coldest Winter" 2010 None NABIL [33]
"Power" Dwele Marco Brambilla [34]
"Runaway" • Pusha T Kanye West The video was made available in a short, extended, and feature film version [35]
"All of the Lights" 2011 Rihanna Hype Williams [36]
"Monster" Jay-Z
Rick Ross
Nicki Minaj
Bon Iver
Jake Nava [37]
"Otis" Jay-Z
Otis Redding
Spike Jonze [38]
"Niggas in Paris" • 2012 Jay-Z Kanye West The music video is composed from live concert footage of Jay-Z and West performing at the Staples Center during the last Los Angeles venue on their Watch the Throne Tour. The footage are treated with kaleidoscopic effects as well as images of big cats and Paris landmarks. It also includes a brief video clip taken from the comedy film Blades of Glory. The music video was accompanied by a warning message to viewers with photosensitive epilepsy regarding its extensive use of flashing lights. [39]
"Lost in the World" Bon Iver Ruth Hodben [40]
"No Church in the Wild" Jay-Z
Frank Ocean
Romain Gavras [41]
"Mercy" Big Sean
Pusha T
2 Chainz
NABIL [42]
"I Wish You Would" / "Cold"
DJ Khaled
Rick Ross
Hype Williams [43]
"Black Skinhead" 2013 None Nick Knight [44]
"Bound 2" None The music video features West's then-fiancée Kim Kardashian riding topless with him atop a motorbike in front of the Monument Valley mountain range and other green-screen landscapes. [45]
"Only One"
2015 Paul McCartney Spike Jonze [46]
"FourFiveSeconds" Rihanna
Paul McCartney
Inez and Vinoodh [47]
"All Day" / "I Feel Like That"
Theophilus London
Allan Kingdom
Paul McCartney
Steve McQueen [48]
"Famous" • 2016 None Kanye West
Eli Linnetz
The video displays West sharing a bed with the nude, sleeping bodies of famous celebrities. Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Ray J, Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, and Bill Cosby are all shown as wax figures. [49]
"Wolves" None Steven Klein [50]
"Fade" • None Kanye West
Eli Linnetz
The music video prominently features Teyana Taylor performing an extensive dance routine inside a gym. She is joined by her husband, Sacramento Kings guard Iman Shumpert, during a shower scene. West's inspirations for the video include Flashdance, the Ohio Players album covers, 1980s pornography, John Carpenter films, The Fly, Dancing with the Stars, the Olympics and the NBA championship. [51]
"I Love It" 2018 Lil Pump Amanda Adelson
Kanye West
"Follow God"
2019 None Jake Schreier
"Closed On Sunday"
None Jake Schreier
"Wash Us in the Blood"
2020 Travis Scott Arthur Jafa The video uses split-screen presentation throughout and features footage of West's Saint Pablo Tour, police brutality, a gospel choir, people with masks on that struggle to breathe, goats, Afrofuturism, Breonna Taylor dancing, Ahmaud Arbery soon before his shooting, protests, church services, cars doing donuts, scenes from Grand Theft Auto V, computer-generated images of West, imprisoned people, and an unmanned drone. [52]
"Come to Life"
2021 None
"24"
None Nick Knight
"Heaven and Hell"
2022 None Arnaud Bresson
"Hurricane"
The Weeknd
Lil Baby
"Life of the Party"
None The video was released on mothers day and featured images from West's childhood. [53] The music video served as both a commercial for Yeezy Gap and a tribute to Donda West.[54] A press release from Gap Inc. stated "in a seamless alignment between Ye’s creative platforms new visuals bridge the multidisciplinary artist’s past and future. Photos from Ye’s childhood have been updated to inlay pieces from the forthcoming Yeezy Gap engineered by Balenciaga creative exploration".[55]
"Talking / Once Again"
2024 Ty Dolla Sign
North West
Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo
"Vultures" • Ty Dolla Sign
Bump J
Lil Durk
Aus Onda
Kanye West
"Carnival" Ty Dolla Sign
Rich the Kid
Playboi Carti
Jon Rafman
"Fried" Ty Dolla Sign
"Slide" Ty Dolla Sign
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List of music videos as featured artist
Title Year Performer(s) Director(s) Album Ref.
"Slow Jamz" 2003 Twista
Jamie Foxx
Fat Cats
Kanye West
Kamikaze [56]
"This Way" 2004 Dilated Peoples Dave Meyers Neighborhood Watch [57]
"Talk About Our Love" Brandy Afrodisiac [58]
"Higher" Do or Die Morocco Vaughn D.O.D. [59]
"Selfish" Slum Village
John Legend
Chris Robinson Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit) [60]
"Wouldn't You Like to Ride?" 2005 Malik Yusef
Common
Coodie and Chike Coach Carter (soundtrack) [61]
"Down and Out" Cam'ron
Syleena Johnson
Life Garland Purple Haze [62]
"Number One" John Legend Davy Duhamel Get Lifted [63]
"Brand New" Rhymefest Dave Meyers Blue Collar [64]
"Extravaganza" 2006 Jamie Foxx Paul Hunter Unpredictable [65]
"Grammy Family" DJ Khaled
Consequence
John Legend
Bernard Gourley Listennn... the Album/Don't Quit Your Day Job! [66]
"Number One" Pharrell Hype Williams In My Mind [67]
"Wouldn't Get Far" 2007 The Game Bryan Barber Doctor's Advocate [68]
"I Still Love H.E.R." Teriyaki Boyz Serious Japanese [69]
"Pro Nails" Kid Sister Ruben Fleischer Ultraviolet [70]
"American Boy" 2008 Estelle Syndrome Shine [71]
"Everybody" Fonzworth Bentley
André 3000
Dion Watkins Non-album single [72]
"Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom)" [Remix] N.E.R.D. ~ Non-album single [73]
"Put On" Young Jeezy Gil Green The Recession [74]
"Stay Up! (Viagra)" 88-Keys Jason Goldwatch The Death of Adam [75]
"Go Hard" DJ Khaled
T-Pain
Hype Williams We Global [76]
"Knock You Down" Keri Hilson
Ne-Yo
Chris Robinson In a Perfect World... [77]
"Kinda Like a Big Deal" 2009 Clipse Bernard Gourley Til the Casket Drops [78]
"Ego (Remix)" Beyoncé ~ Non-album single [79]
"Walkin' on the Moon" The-Dream Hype Williams Love vs. Money [80]
"Gifted" N.A.S.A.
Santigold
Lykke Li
Three Legged Legs The Spirit of Apollo [81]
"Supernova" Mr Hudson Jonas & François Straight No Chaser [82]
"Make Her Say" Kid Cudi
Common
Nez Khammal Man on the Moon: The End of Day [83]
"Digital Girl" (Remix) Jamie Foxx
The-Dream
Drake
Hype Williams Intuition [84]
"Run This Town" Jay-Z
Rihanna
Anthony Mandler The Blueprint 3 [85]
"The Big Screen" GLC Shalin Love, Life & Loyalty [86]
"Forever" Drake
Lil Wayne
Eminem
Hype Williams More than a Game (soundtrack)/ Relapse: The Refill [87]
"Whatever You Want" Consequence
John Legend
Non-album single [88]
"Erase Me" 2010 Kid Cudi Jason Goldwatch Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager [89]
"Anyone but Him" Mr Hudson Team Supreme Straight No Chaser [90]
"Ayyy Girl" JYJ
Malik Yusef
The Beginning [91]
"E.T." 2011 Katy Perry Floria Sigismondi Teenage Dream [92]
"Marvin & Chardonnay" Big Sean
Roscoe Dash
Hype Williams Finally Famous [93]
"Pride N Joy" 2012 Fat Joe
Miguel
Jadakiss
Mos Def
DJ Khaled
Roscoe Dash
Busta Rhymes
Non-album single [94]
"Birthday Song" 2 Chainz Andreas Nilsson Based on a T.R.U. Story [95]
"I Wish You Would" DJ Khaled
Rick Ross /
Hype Williams Kiss the Ring [96]
"Thank You" 2013 Busta Rhymes
Lil Wayne
Q-Tip
Director X Non-album single [97]
"I Won" 2014 Future Hype Williams Honest [98]
"U Mad" 2015 Vic Mensa Grant Singer Non-album single [99]
"Blessings" Big Sean
Drake
Darren Craig Dark Sky Paradise [100]
"One Man Can Change the World" Big Sean
John Legend
Andrew Hines [101]
"All Your Fault" Big Sean Mark Mayer, Aaron Platt [102]
"Piss on Your Grave" Travis Scott NABIL Rodeo [103]
"Figure It Out" 2016 French Montana
Nas
Eif Rivera Wave Gods & MC4 [104]
"Ballin" Juicy J Jack the Sprat Non-album single
"That Part" Schoolboy Q Colin Tilley Blank Face LP [105]
"Mixed Personalities" 2019 YNW Melly Cole Bennett We All Shine [106]
"Eazy" 2022 The Game Drillmatic – Mind Vs. Heart
"City of Gods" Fivio Foreign B.I.B.L.E.
"Keep It Burnin" Future Rick Nyce I Never Liked You
"Hot Shit" Cardi B
Lil Durk
Lado Kvataniya [107]

Cameo appearances

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Title Performer(s) Director(s) Album Ref.
"Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" Jay-Z Dave Meyers The Blueprint
"Girls, Girls, Girls" Jay-Z Marc Klasfeld The Blueprint
"B R Right" Trina Darren Grant Diamond Princess
"Get By" Talib Kweli Jeremy Rall Quality [108]
"Stand Up" Ludacris Dave Meyers Chicken-n-Beer [109]
"Real Things" Javine Charles Infante Surrender
"Used to Love U" John Legend Ben Mor Get Lifted
"I Changed My Mind" Keyshia Cole The Way It Is
"Same Direction" Hoobastank Brett Simon The Reason [110]
"Get No Better" Cassidy Split Personality
"Triple Trouble" Beastie Boys Adam Yauch To the 5 Boroughs
"Draped Up" Bun B Trill
"Poppin' My Collar" Three 6 Mafia Most Known Unknown
"God's Gonna Cut You Down" Johnny Cash Tony Kaye American V: A Hundred Highways [111]
"Phantom Pt. II" Justice Daniel Bloomberg
"I Want You" Common Kerry Washington and Sanji Finding Forever [112]
"The Game" Common
"Love in This Club" Usher
Young Jeezy
Brothers Strause Here I Stand [113]
"Everyone Nose" N.E.R.D Diane Martel Seeing Sounds
"It's a New Day" will.i.am Ben Mor Change Is Now: Renewing America's Promise
"Ego" Beyoncé Frank Gatson Jr. I Am... Sasha Fierce
"Getcha Some" Big Sean Hype Williams Finally Famous Vol. 2: UKNOWBIGSEAN [114]
"Make Love" Keri Hilson Matt Barnes In a Perfect World... [115]
"Barbra Streisand" Duck Sauce So Me Quack [116]
"Come on a Cone" Nicki Minaj Grizzlee Music Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded [117]
"Mr. Rager" Kid Cudi Jérémie Rozan Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager [118]
"Cheers (Drink to That)" Rihanna Evan Rogers Loud [119]
"Wild Boy (Remix)" Machine Gun Kelly Un­known Wild Boy [120]
"Oliver Twist" D'banj Sesan Ogunro D'Kings Men [121]
"Numbers on the Boards" Pusha T So Me My Name Is My Name [122]
"Bitch I'm Madonna" Madonna Jonas Åkerlund Rebel Heart [123]
"Panda" Desiigner Paul Geusebroek New English [124]
"Friends" Francis and the Lights Jake Schreier Farewell, Starlite! [125]
"Diet Coke" Pusha T Omar Jones It's Almost Dry

Video albums

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Title Album details Description
The College Dropout Video Anthology
  • Released: March 22, 2005[126]
  • Label: Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam
  • Formats: DVD
Contains the music videos for songs from his debut studio album, The College Dropout (2004).
Late Orchestration
  • Released: April 24, 2006[127]
  • Label: Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam
  • Formats: DVD
Features his concert at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.
Late Registration Video Anthology
  • Released: December 19, 2006[128][129]
  • Label: Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam
  • Formats: DVD
Contains the music videos for the singles from his second studio album, Late Registration (2004).
VH1 Storytellers
  • Released: January 5, 2010[130]
  • Label: Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam
  • Formats: DVD
Contains the concert television special of West's live performances on VH1 Storytellers, originally aired on VH1 on February 28, 2009.

Filmography

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Title Year Role Notes Ref.
Fade to Black 2004 Himself Uncredited cameo
Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2005 Himself Guest performance
State Property 2 2005 Himself Cameo appearance [131]
The Love Guru 2008 Himself Cameo appearance [132]
We Were Once a Fairytale 2009 Himself Short film, directed by Spike Jonze
Runaway 2010 Griffin Short film, also director and writer
The Black Mamba 2011 Himself Short film, directed by Robert Rodriguez [133]
Cruel Summer 2012 Ibrahim Short film, also director, producer and writer
Bad 25 2012 Himself Documentary film
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues 2013 Wesley Jackson of MTV News Uncredited cameo [134]
Jesus Is King 2019 Himself Short film, also producer
A Man Named Scott 2021 Himself Documentary film

Television

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Title Year Role Network Notes Ref.
Top Buzzer 2004 Customer MTV Episode: "The Long Weekend"
MTV Diary Himself [135]
Punk'd Himself Season 3, Episode 8 [136]
Saturday Night Live 2005 Musical guest NBC Episode: "Steve Carell/Kanye West"
2007 Episode: "LeBron James/Kanye West"
Entourage Himself HBO Season 4, Episode 11 [137]
Saturday Night Live 2008 Musical guest NBC Episode: "Hugh Laurie/Kanye West"
2010 Episode: "Bryan Cranston/Kanye West"
The Cleveland Show 2010–
2012
Kenny West (voice) Fox 5 Episodes [132]
Keeping Up with the Kardashians 2012–
2021
Himself E!
David Blaine: Real or Magic 2013 Himself ABC [138]
Saturday Night Live Musical guest NBC Episode: "Ben Affleck/Kanye West"
2015 40th Anniversary Special [139]
I Am Cait Himself E! Episode: "Meeting Cait"
American Idol Auditioner Fox Season 15 [140]
Saturday Night Live 2016 Musical guest NBC Episode: "Melissa McCarthy/Kanye West"
2018 Episode: "Adam Driver/Kanye West"
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman 2019 Himself Netflix Season 2, Episode 1 [141]
The Kardashians 2022 Hulu Season 1, Episode 1

Commercials

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Company and product Year Director(s) Featured song(s) Description Ref.
Boost Mobile 2004 Chris Robinson "Where You At? (The Whole City Behind Us)" The video showcases West, Ludacris and The Game using nationwide Boost Walkie-Talkie to exchange rhymes that pay tribute to their respective hometowns on location. West is shown rapping in front of a mixing console inside the control room of a recording studio in Chicago. [142]
Pepsi 2005 Spike Lee "Heard 'Em Say" The commercial premiered during the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. Entitled "Timeline," it uses special effects and computer graphics to illustrate West walking past iconic backdrops of various major cities, including Paris, Tokyo and Chicago, while leaving a trailing aura fueled by Pepsi. [143]
Absolut Vodka 2008 Ulf Johansson "Truth or Dare" [144]

References

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