THRONE REPAIR DEPT.
Riot Like You're in the 99 Percent: Kanye's 'No Church in the Wild' Video
By Molly Lambert atOh, you thought Jay and Kanye were going to be in the video? They've got stuff to do. Jay's warming Blue's bottles and Kanye's eating ice cream with Kim Kardashian at Cannes. Who gon' stop them, HUH? Kanye obviously saw the video for M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls" and shot his MacBook Air because he was so angry he hadn't come up with it himself. Then he presumably called up director Romain Gavras to demand he do one of Watch the Throne's videos, and this is the result. As the first track on the album, "No Church in the Wild" sets the tone for Watch the Throne's ominous proggy extravagance. Its creepy burbling guitar line interpolates a song by Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, the drums sample Spooky Tooth, and the possessed wail is James Brown.












