How 'RUNAWAY' Defines Kanye West

Hey everybody! Thanks for watching this video on "How RUNAWAY Defines Kanye West". This is something I've been wanting to do forever! Shoutout to @WookieeAlt for suggesting this topic a while back. I've made 207 videos and now I finally made one about my favorite song ever. Between the materialism, the excess, the ego, and all of those things battling with Kanye's conscious -- the stuff that makes him want to sympathize/empathize with those around him, the reasons to start a family instead of making a goliath of an album...everything is just so good. From the samples to the beat, the vocoder guitar solo to the short film, and everything in between. Hope ya liked this! Big stuff coming soon.

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[ezrar]

Devil in a new dress and runaway are S teir kanye

[olliefrench]

it’s crazy how one note from Kanye is more powerful that 99% of other rappers whole discographies

[Kino-xefr]

This is everything this channel has been leading up to all this time

[BBOYZERO]

anyone else play an E on the piano when they pass 1 by and see who perks their head up

[ronald]

I can listen to you talking about kanye for hours

[PBandJames]

I remember reading somewhere that Kanye made Pusha T re-write and perform his verse several times until it was savage enough.

[illu]

Kanye has always been a misunderstood genius. I feel like the general public won’t fully appreciate his art until he’s gone sadly

[HHSFr]

I listened to Runaway everyday when i lost my sight... i was devastated, sick af, but i had Runaway with me, i was comfortable when i was listening to it, it made me happy... and unafraid of the future... years later i found one eye back and i instinctely watch the runaway video... i was so... thrilled... this song helped me staying strong and full of hope... it changed my life from the darkness to the lights that i see again...

[MikeRehfuss]

To me the opening piano is the girl’s heartbeat. It’s clean and pure, and then the distorted ugliness is Kanye coming in to ruin and pervert it. I always took that opening piece of music as a hyper-critical view of how he seems himself in the hearts of others; it’s all good until he comes in and fucks it up.

[hidden]

I think the E notes at the start are like tapping a glass to get attention before a toast which is obviously a repeating theme of the song

[Loe_Jist]

I'm a classically trained musician with almost 2 decades of experience playing, performing, learning, and teaching music. I even spent years at the collegiate level intensely studying, analyzing, and performing some of the greatest pieces of western music ever written. But anyone with an ounce of musical sense and appreciation for it can sit down and hear it: MBDTF is a masterpiece. I don't exaggerate when I say it may be the single best musical work of the 21st century so far. And honestly, its impact is reinforced and further cemented by Kanye's offstage antics and persona. His mental health is unpredictable and his stunts are infamous. This album, however, lays out the foundation for everything that has happened since its release in 2010. It's a story about an artist at the highest level of stardom, wealth, skill, and success who realizes it's all hollow. It's lonely at the top. He's being ripped apart by the demons inside of him. The destructive nature of his lifestyle, mental illness, fame, and western society is enabling his worst qualities. His mind is breaking and he knows it. The decline is inevitable. He's his own worst enemy. He can't fill a certain hole in his heart. MBDTF is the Citizen Kane of rap albums. Its story and depth are incredible.

[LeBeautiful]

Peak Ye. MBDTF was simply ahead of it’s time.

[kenniron]

I take the distorted vocals at the end as Kanye pleading for help, but because he’s a celebrity, nobody really hears him for his struggles, they only hear him for his music. They distort his pleas, but somehow you can still just make out the chorus in it. So it’s like trying to grasp onto what someone is saying without hearing it. Phenomenal song 10/10

[ambrewski]

kanye be like: ive never thought about it like that

[dipaula___]

FUN FACT: The beat at the end of Runaway (with the violins and piano) it's the same beat at the end of Say You Will (with the 808s and percussion).

[nikhobrito]

I personally think runaway is the greatest song ever made in the time I’ve been alive. It’s not my favorite and I doubt it is for most people, but there’s no denying how amazing it is. I feel like it’s one of those songs on the Bach, Mozart level where in 200 years it’ll be pulled apart and analyzed in schools.

[tashindookie]

The outro to runaway is one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard! It is beautiful yet unsettling, and it perfectly describes the song in just 3 minutes. This is one of my favorite songs of all time and I will always love kanye for making this song.

[masonmcdonald]

This man sold runaway so well that I clicked off the video and listened to it for the 10000th time

[piw]

I was in a zoology lab when I first heard runaway. I was sitting at the back and out lecturer had stepped out for a bit. Earlier I had downloaded it after my little sister recommended it to me the day before, so I decided to listen to it. I remember it very vividly, how I lost I was in the song. The tears that I was trying to hold back. Later that day. I took a long walk with the song on repeat. I wish I could go back to that moment.

[BasedTexans]

I cried the first time I watched his Runaway short film. It's a masterpiece through and through.