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August 14, 2007

Kanye West And Peter Bjorn & John @ Way Out West Festival: It Happened

It all started innocently enough, Kanye lifting "Young Folks" for his mixtape and plastering a bunch of "uh uh" and "uh-uh-uhhh"s overtop the tune's ubiquitous whistle. Then Kanye broke the fourth wall and invited PB&J to perform the tune with him live at Gothenburg, Sweden's Way Out West Festival, which netted the YouTube you'll see below. Definitely no whistling track, definitely live bongos, definitely a bit of a mindfuck: PBJ&Ye...

More footage here and here. Kanye's getting good at this hype-man-for-guitar-bands thing! Jeah-jeah-jeah-jeah.

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blah blah blah who cares, let's talk more about the prospect of kanye forcing 50 cent into retirement.

Posted by: caleb at 08/14/07 5:22 PM | Reply
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I dont see why this song is so popular. I saw them perform it live on tv today, its nothing special.

Posted by: Jace at 08/14/07 6:21 PM | Reply
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fuck kanye...and i'm close to saying fuck PB&J. what are they doing?!

Posted by: ko at 08/14/07 6:54 PM | Reply
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that was pretty disappointing. why can't he perform live with daft punk?!?!

Posted by: Liam at 08/14/07 6:55 PM | Reply
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misconception/improper use of "breaking the fourth wall," (not to mention unnecessary).

Posted by: Mitchell Hurwitz at 08/14/07 8:09 PM | Reply
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Kanye did some amazing production on Common's latest album. All his beats are creative and fun! If you watch his videos http://www.imf.com/videos/?op=artist_videos&artist=Kanye%20West# on IMF, you'll see what I am saying. I don't mean to pump up Kanye, but he is the best out now, with Primo. He sounds like no one else and is consistent.

Posted by: so-Fresh at 08/14/07 10:40 PM | Reply
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"breaking the fourth wall" is the "rosa parks" of misused metaphors.

Posted by: rastafarianlibrarian at 08/14/07 11:17 PM | Reply
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kanye is awful. I don't understand why anyone thinks he's a good rapper.

Posted by: jeffo at 08/15/07 1:58 PM | Reply
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Please coin the PBJ&Ye term. its gold.

Posted by: sean at 08/15/07 4:25 PM | Reply
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word, rastafarianlibrarian. word.

Posted by: i laughed at a comment, yes i did at 08/15/07 5:28 PM | Reply
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Fucking tone-deaf...

Posted by: aaron at 09/11/07 9:38 PM | Reply
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