Hey! Everybody! Kanye got his sense of humor back! Your dude who used to drag chublets to the gym mat in a full-body bear costume ("My name is Lasaaaandra") has been on a dead-serious kick for a while now ("eat your salad, no dessert!"). In fact, thanks to a case of early-onset megalomania, all we've heard out of Kanye in the past year is anger and ego.
But wait. Look at Kanye in "Stay Up!" Watch how hard he goes for it as a fogey. How stupid he dances and how convincingly he peeks over the top of that lingerie shop dressing room. Kanye's... sort of a good actor? Committed to his role, at the very least. Committed enough to make you wonder: Could all his huffing, puffing, blow-your-house-down magnificence just be a joke? If it is, Kanye, you're a genius. If it isn't, Kanye, you're a genius.
Watch this new video, "Stay Up! (Viagra)," that Kanye did with his buddy, producer/MC 88-Keys, and tell me it doesn't make you wonder. Directed by Jason Goldwatch (Ludacris, Dilated Peoples, Young Jeezy), "Stay Up!" is Kanye and 88-Keys dressed up as old dudes with melty faces and bottomless bottles of Viagra, caught on surveillance cameras acting like 15-year=olds. Basically it's Borat meets Norbit. An appropriately ridiculous pairing, wouldn't you say? As promised, we give you "Stay Up! (Viagra)!" Watch for clues.