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^ a b Darville, Jordan (January 14, 2022). "Kanye West and the Game Shared New Song "Eazy": Listen". "Kanye West and The Game Drop New Song "Eazy" ". ^ Cowen, Trace William (January 15, 2022). "Kanye West says he's planning to release a new song with Pusha T, The Game and DJ Premier". "Kanye West Says He's Ready to Release New Track While on Call With DJ Premier". Vocals – The Game, Kanye West, Julia Fox (background)Ĭharts Chart performance for "Eazy". Production – Hit-Boy, Mike Dean, Big Duke, Cash Jones. In response to the controversy, West posted on Instagram that "Art is not a proxy for any ill or harm, Any suggestion otherwise about my art is false and mal intended." On March 9, 2022, a second music video with CGI animated visuals was released. The video has been heavily criticized as it depicts West kidnapping, burying alive, and decapitating Pete Davidson, referencing West's divorce with Kim Kardashian. The video is half claymation and half live-action. Music videos Ī music video of the song premiered via Instagram on March 2, 2022. Īnimal rights organization PETA commented on the cover, saying that it is "reminiscent of monkeys PETA has found" and that "when you remove the fur, you can't miss that there's a person in there, that they are fellow primates, and do not belong to us to abuse for any purpose". Every time, for years afterwards when I looked at the 10 by 8 transparencies, the stench came straight back to me as pungent as if each image was saturated with it. Nothing left, except their smell they stank. Once the life had gone, they were just bags of barely held together of flesh, bone and sinew. However, they were not inhabited by death in the way they had been by life. These corpses of skinned animals had nothing of life left in them, not even the most tiny speck or hint of their former beauty, majesty and purpose. Speaking about the picture, Knight said in 2013: Youtube eazy e pussy series#
The picture of the skinned monkey was not published until 2013, when Knight curated a series of research imagery for SHOWstudio. The picture was originally taken by English photographer and frequent West collaborator Nick Knight in 1997 as part of his research for the War editorial for Big Magazine, which he described as "a study in physiology, form, philosophy, and death". The cover depicts a skinned monkey against a blood red background. On January 14, 2022, West revealed the cover art for the single on Instagram and captioned the post, "My life was never eazy". On January 15, 2022, the song was released exclusively on Spotify before being added to other streaming platforms a day later. In the video, West said that he was releasing a song that Friday and was asking DJ Premier if he could do a scratch for the song. On January 12, 2022, in an Instagram video shared by designer Tracey Mills, West was seen talking to DJ Premier on FaceTime with the Game and fellow collaborators Pusha T and Mike Dean in the studio.