Kanye West - "Love Lockdown" (New Single) Performed at MTV VMA's

I didn't watch the VMA's the other night because, well, they suck now. There's never anything worthwhile and it's not worth wasting hours sitting through a bunch of crap when you could just wait for the best clips online the next day. So I did that and found this...

Kanye performed his new single "Love Lockdown" and I have to say I am confused. It's definitely a dope track once you get used to the fact that the stripped down beat never really gets going and Kanye is basically singing with the help of Auto Tune and the Vocoder sound.

It's tough to deal with at first but I could get down with it after awhile. Kanye has been singing and using Auto Tune (the T-Pain Sound) a lot more lately so I wonder if he is shifting to this style on the next album. I hope to God that he is not because that sound and style needs to die ASAP. Hopefully he sticks to the script and gives us the usual Kanye style of dope beats and braggadocios rhymes but you never know with him because he's definitely slightly crazy. He seems like he is starting to fall in love with this style but I hope it is just a quick fad and not a permanent switch.

Here he is doing the same type of thing on Lil Wayne's Lollipop Remix but it's definitely more rapping than singing:


UPDATE:  Studio Version MP3 DOWNLOAD Available Here While It Lasts!!!

UPDATE 2: Here's the second updated studio version