Above is the alternate video for Kanye West’s Can’t Tell Me Nothing, created by and featuring comedian Zach Galifianakis.

Kanye West’s official video sucks. The video is shot on a desert with long dusky shadows. It trades cuts of a woman in a billowing dress dancing in the wind and West rapping and gesticulating wildly. The video ends with a Lamborghini pointlessly spinning out, raising a huge plume of dust. The title of the Youtube video should read “Kanye parks car on the set of an Enya music video.”

Zach Galifianakis’s lip-syncing farmer video is not only better than the original, but gives Kanye’s angsty lyrics some weight. Kanye says that it is he who is “way more fresher, with way less effort” and that “when you try hard, is when you die hard.” Ironically on Zach’s bushy silent lips, the lyrics backfire poignantly on Kanye and his empty headed video.

Notes: Galifianakis’s red shorted hoedown homey is indie-darling Will Oldham (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy). The video was shot on Zach’s farm in North Carolina. And dude drives a mean tractor.

Here’s Zach at it again, with Fiona Apple: