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Will Ferrell's Jay-Z/Kanye Collaboration Is 'Surreal'


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[img]http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/shared/promoimages/movies/f/ferrell_will/news_ferrell_012611/281x211.jpg?quality=0.85[/img][url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673975/will-ferrell-jay-z-kanye-west-watch-the-throne.jhtml"][b]FROM MTV MOVIES:[/b][/url] It's one of the biggest — and most inexplicable — hits of 2011, a song so popular that its hook was name-checked during player [url="http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2011/11/7/2543890/terrell-suggs-ball-so-hard-university"]introductions [/url]on Sunday Night Football, so massive that Jay-Z and Kanye West have taken to performing it [i]multiple times[/i] per set on their [url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673399/kanye-west-jay-z-watch-the-throne-tour.jhtml"][i]Watch the Throne[/i] Tour[/url].

We're talking, of course, about "N---as in Paris," the max-impact [i]Throne [/i]single that has become a sensation, thanks in no small part to producer [url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1668529/jay-z-kanye-west-kid-boy-watch-the-throne.jhtml"]Hit-Boy's bouncing beat[/url], West's pop-cult wordplay ("What's that jacket, Margiela?") and, of course, a pair of oddball samples taken from Will Ferrell's 2007 figure-skating comedy "Blades of Glory."

As you're probably aware, "Paris" kicks off with Ferrell's grizzled Chazz Michael Michaels defiantly declaring, "We're gonna skate to one song and one song only," then really picks up steam mid-song, when (in a move that could alternately be described as "completely inspired" or "completely insane"), Hit-Boy drops the beat and lets the song roll on a second Ferrell sample: "No one knows what it means, but it's provocative ... it gets the people [i]going[/i]!"

[url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1673975/will-ferrell-jay-z-kanye-west-watch-the-throne.jhtml"][b]Read the full story at MTV Movies![/b][/url]



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