Kanye West courts controversy with violent Monster video.

The video which guest stars Jay-Z and Nicki Minaj, even shows West in bed with a couple of apparently dead models and other scenes include a couple feasting on a bloody corpse. The full video was leaked on YouTube, where an earlier sample had already been published and seems inspired by ‘torture porn’ films such as the Saw series, reported New York Post online.

It isn’t the first time West has courted controversy with a video.

He was forced to remove a graphic video featuring a sex scene and self-mutilation from his website last year. The rapper had posted an 11-minute film titled We Were Once A Fairytale, which is directed by Spike Jonze.

It follows West, 32, on a drunken night out. He is seen having sex with a stranger, projectile vomiting rose petals and then stabbing himself in the stomach. Shortly after the footage appeared, the hip hop star removed it from his site and issued an apology.