Kanye Debuts New Video for Justice's "Stress"

It's Brand Spankin' New Week over at Kanye West's blog, as the rapper took time from his busy touring and Connect Four-ing schedule to post "Stress," the new video by dance duo Justice. The video is kind of like a real life Grand Theft Auto: random people are harassed, cars are vandalized, street musicians are beat up, cops are fought and Molotov cocktails are thrown by five or six young derelicts wearing jackets donning Justice's crucifix logo. That pretty much sums it up. Watch above.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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