Kanye West‘s daughters were the surprise stars of his new music video for Bomb when he released the video on Wednesday.
The clip, which appears to show a chase through a postapocalyptic desert setting, featured appearances from his oldest child North West, 11, and her younger sister Chicago, six.
The song, which is credited to his ¥$ duo with Ty Dolla Sign, was originally released on their critically reviled album Vultures 2, which was released in August.
North and Chicago are both pictured driving Mad Max–style vehicles while being chased by cartoonish monsters in the music video
However, it’s unclear if the two were actually ever in front of a camera, as fans online have pointed out that the video appears to be AI generated.
Kanye’s daughters’ appearance was particularly surprising, as his ex-wife Kim Kardashian recently described herself as a ‘single parent’ because of how long the rapper had gone without seeing his children.
Kanye West’s daughters were the surprise stars of his new music video for Bomb when he released the video on Wednesday; North West, 11, is pictured
The clip, which appears to show a chase through a postapocalyptic desert setting, featured appearances from his oldest child North and her younger sister, six-year-old Chicago (pictured)
Kanye doesn’t make an appearance in the video. Bomb is from his ¥$ duo with Ty Dolla Sign and was featured on their LP Vultures 2, which dropped in August; pictured in February in Milan, Italy
Notably, Kanye is only featured in the song and doesn’t make an appearance in the video.
Despite the tensions between West and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, she still promoted the music video in an Instagram post that noted North and Chicago were featured in it.
Both celebrity children were previously connected to the Vultures 2 track thanks to short rap verses they recorded for it.
North has the more substantial verse, which she mostly raps in rudimentary Japanese, while Chicago has an even longer verse in which she raps about how she likes ‘to have fun’ and to ‘go to the beach.’
In the video, the two girls are being chased by comical-looking monsters, some of which look as if they could have been stop-motion animation figures, while others look more like actors in costumes.
The snarling creatures zoom about on motorcycles through deserts and canyons, and even along snow-flecked mountain passes.
On social media, fans were quick to lambaste both the music video and the song itself.
Fans criticized West for using AI-generated visuals for the video, which were exemplified in North and Chicago’s scenes.
In the video, the two girls are being chased by comical-looking monsters, some of which look as if they could have been stop-motion animation figures, while others look more like actors in costumes
The snarling creatures zoom about on motorcycles through deserts and canyons, and even along snow-flecked mountain passes
Fans criticized West for using AI-generated visuals for the video, which were exemplified in North and Chicago’s scenes. Kanye’s daughters both had plasticky, overly smooth visages that shift slight at different angles, making them look like different people
Kanye’s daughters both had plasticky, overly smooth visages that shift slight at different angles, making them look like different people.
In another scene, North is pictured head-on, but when she moves her head slightly a sign is revealed her that is written in a nonsense alphabet, a hallmark of AI-generated videos.
The vehicles that North and Chicago drive are also a sign that the video was AI generated.
At first, the sisters are seen driving silvery twin vehicles that look like slightly melted Tesla Cybertrucks, but in a later exterior shot they are suddenly driving odd tank-like vehicles with long rows of tires.
Later, they again change into something resembling a gray patchwork muscle car with large tires, though it now only has the standard four.’
The villains’ vehicles aren’t much better, and they seem to shift and shudder in motion.
West doesn’t appear to have spoken about using AI for the video, but it may have been a cost-cutting measure, as the same video would have been prohibitively expensive to shoot using practical effects, and even digital artists who could craft similar — but higher-quality images — would have cost much more than an AI service.
Bomb wasn’t previously released as a single, and the only Vultures 2 song that was released as a single, Slide, stalled out at number 88 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, so there wouldn’t have been a commercial push to create a Bomb video.
In another scene, North is pictured head-on, but when she moves her head slightly a sign is revealed her that is written in a nonsense alphabet, a hallmark of AI-generated videos
The vehicles that North and Chicago drive are also a sign that the video was AI generated. They start out on what looks like melted Cybertrucks before suddenly driving twin tanks
West hasn’t spoken about using AI for the video, but it may have been a cost-cutting measure, as practical effects or traditional digital effects would have cost far more
Kim Kardashian said she felt like a ‘single mother’ because Ye has mostly been spending time in Japan in recent months with his current wife Bianca Censori; pictured in February in MIlan
Earlier this month, Kanye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian said she felt like a ‘single mother’ because she was ‘basically raising four kids by [herself]’ while chatting with her friend Zoe Winkler.
At the time, it had been nearly 60 days since Kanye had been pictured with any of his children.
Instead, he has mostly been spotted spending time in Japan in recent months, where his current wife Bianca Censori is often by his side.
West was recently sued by his former assistant, the influencer and former OnlyFans star Lauren Pisciotta, after she claimed he raped her at one of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ infamous ‘freak off’ parties. West has denied her claims and called them ‘baseless.’
He is also accused in a separate federal lawsuit of ‘gagging’ and choking the America’s Next Top Model alumna Jenn An until she blacked out.
