Kanye West & Spike Jonze Present: “We Were Once a Fairytale”

This one’s been buzzing around the blogosphere for a while, but we finally have Spike Jonze and Kanye West’s full short film to stream in all its bizarre, yet intriguing, glory.

Though the film was conceived and screened well before Kanye’s recent headline-grabbing shenanigans, the scenes are eerily poignant to the “celebrity rapper spinning out of control” narratives perpetrated by the music and celeb media of late. Now that this surreal film has hit the web, you’ll surely be hearing lots of snarky comments about it being “crazy” or proof that Kanye’s ego is out of control, but we think Jonze and Yeezy’s work is kind of brilliant here.

We’ll let you be the judge: watch here as a drunken, nightclub-hopping Kanye meets a knife-wielding, animated rat in the bathroom in We Were Once a Fairytale: