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The Watch the Throne Tour was a co-headlining concert tour by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West [2] that began on October 28, 2011 in Atlanta and continued until June 22, 2012 with its final show scheduled in Birmingham. [3] Originally scheduled for 23 performances, the tour was expanded to 34 performances in North America due to heavy ...
- June 22, 2012
- October 29, 2011
Highlights from the opening night of Jay Z and Kanye West' 'Watch The Throne' tour live from the O2 Arena, London 18/05/2012.
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Released: March 20, 2012. Watch the Throne is a collaborative studio album by the American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West, collectively known as The Throne. [2] It was released on August 8, 2011, by Roc-A-Fella Records, Roc Nation, and Def Jam Recordings. Prior to its release, Jay-Z and West had collaborated on various singles, and with the ...
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- August 8, 2011
- July 2010, November 2010 – July 2011
- “No Church in the Wild” (featuring Frank Ocean) Odd Future singer Frank Ocean and The-Dream lend their voices to the album’s grim opener, which sets the mood with a gnarled guitar sample before jacking some sounds from James Brown’s “Don’t Tell A Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth About You.”
- “Lift Off” Beyoncé joins the boys for a synth-heavy banger that takes off like a rocket and eventually arrives at a spacey, blissful resolution. It all but demands a sci-fi music video featuring Beyoncé as a sexy astronaut.
- “N**gas in Paris” Jay and Ye come in hard over a slow, menacing beat and icy synthesizer notes, but regardless, this cut is mostly memorable for including an unexpected sample of dialogue from the underrated Will Ferrell/Jon Heder ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory.
- “Otis” West transforms Otis Redding’s “Try A Little Tenderness” into slick “luxury rap.” Jay-Z and Kanye turn in strong verses, but Redding’s chopped-up shouts and hollers are the main attraction.
Nov 1, 2011 · The opening bars of Watch the Throne bonus track "H.A.M." blast through the speakers. Suddenly the platform—a cube— begins to rise, with Jay rapping on top of it. Hundreds of feet away, on the ...
Nov 2, 2011 · November 2, 2011. Kanye West and Jay-Z perform during the Watch the Throne Tour in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo by Rex Features via AP Images. As the booming bass and sputtering hi-hats of “H.A.M ...
