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Riot Like You're in the 99 Percent: Kanye's 'No Church in the Wild' Video

By Molly Lambert at

Oh, 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.

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Let's Fix the New 'N****s in Paris' Video

By Rembert Browne at

And just like that, Watch the Throne fever is officially over. Great run, but it's done.

With the chance of a lifetime to make the most amazingly literal video of all time, The Throne decided to immortalize their tour with a boring kaleidoscope-inspired concert video. I couldn't be more disappointed.

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