In Kanye West short film "Runawy", he take's the phoenix (his love interest) on a tour of his world. During this scene, there are fireworks and a band, where people are dressed in pointed hoods, similar to the kkk head ware. In addition, there is a Michael Jackson float in the same scene. Sway, of MTV News sat with Kanye West to discuss the film during a live Q and A session. Kanye explains that the scene represents the concept of cult and social and conformity:
The hood, what it does represent to me … in relation to the Michael Jackson thing is not the KKK but the concept of cult, because it’s multiple people with this hood on. It’s me taking [the phoenix] to my world and saying, ‘Let me show you what my world is about.’ ”
The greatest, biggest pop-cultural figure of all time, arguably bigger than Jesus Christ, is Michael Jackson.
“If you saw the kid in the beginning, he’s running and running at top speed holding his torch, and his torch represents his thoughts and ideals. At the end, after he’s been cultivated, he has the hood on now and he’s walking extremely slow. That’s basically how people think. It’s the way society has set people up to be able to control them, slave mentalities.”
“[By] just creating this mentality by cultivating the ideals … you could just make people just stand in their own mental jails. What happens when someone isn’t in a mental jail?”
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Via mtv.com
