Kanye West Champion

The music video for "Champion" was directed by NEON. The Olympic-themed music video revolves around a puppet version of Kanye West participating in the 100 m sprint in the Unified Games. After receiving permission to race thanks to majority vote on live "K-Span" television broadcast, the scene transits to the starting line, where flashbacks display the extensive training the puppet undertook to get where he is. The race commences and nearing the finishing line, the puppet is able to pass the other runners and emerge victorious. The video was filmed at Adolfo Camarillo High School in Camarillo, California. In the video Kanye West, is the only puppet playing in the race everyone else is human which I think it’s clever because it makes the audiences life when you watch a Kanye West music video you can tell he has a very big ego which is good in rap music it gives him edge over other rappers the video starts off where Kanye West is sitting in a meeting with the hosts of the games then after they talk it goes straight into the action the lyrics in the song mean Kanye West, is telling the world that he is the champion in anything he does so for example because he is a rapper he is telling people that he is the champion of rap the song is very short and only comes in at 2.27 the song was never released as a single but when the album the graduation dropped which the song was on it became very popular with listeners so Kanye West, decided to make a video just for the fans when it came to finding the video for the song it became quite difficult the video was nowhere to be seen on YouTube, MySpace, Vevo or Daily Motion. I found the video on two sites. The first site was Kanye West.com which is his main website for his fans. On that website you can watch every video he has made, find out when he is doing concerts, buy t shirts and listen to a 20 second sample of songs from his albums. The site also tells you when a new single from Kanye West will be released and when he will release a new album. The other site I found the video on was ebaumsworld.com this site usually puts on stupid videos of famous people falling over and hurting themselves. After the video was released the song charted on the billboard pop 100 at number 94. On billboard pop you can only get the song if you buy the album Graduation and you can also buy the song on iTunes. I think the song is very underrated and should have been released as a single but Kanye West did release 4 other singles from that album which were strong so in a way I can imagine the song falling off the charts very quickly. The other singles that were released for the album were Stronger, Can’t tell me nothing, Good Life and Flashing Lights. Even though the album and the song came out in 2007 the music video was released in 2008. The reason Kanye West did not appear in the video was because at the time he was depressed with the recent passing of his mother and he was working on an album of love songs