Kanye & Jay Z Brought The Throne To SXSW’s Samsung Owners

US rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z (L) perform during a concert as part of their tour "Watch the Throne" on June 1, 2012 in Paris Bercy. AFP PHOTO GUILLAUME BAPTISTE / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL (Photo credit should read GUILLAUME BAPTISTE/AFP/GettyImages)

Kanye & Jay Z Brought The Throne To SXSW’s Samsung Owners

US rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z (L) perform during a concert as part of their tour "Watch the Throne" on June 1, 2012 in Paris Bercy. AFP PHOTO GUILLAUME BAPTISTE / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL (Photo credit should read GUILLAUME BAPTISTE/AFP/GettyImages)

As previously reported, Kanye West and Jay Z headlined Samsung’s SXSW showcase last night at Austin Music Hall. Attendance was free for people with Samsung devices that have installed Samsung’s new streaming service Milk Music (not to be confused with these guys). As ABC notes, Samsung’s show was in direct competition with Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q’s set at the iTunes Festival and comes just weeks after Kanye called out Apple CEO Tim Cook at a New Jersey concert, telling him to “stop trying to get performers to play your festival for free, you are rich as fuck.” Multi-billion-dollar corporations using rap superstars to one-up each other? Very SXSW.

Kanye and Jay performed a number of Watch The Throne tracks and solo material, but nothing new (despite ABC’s assertion that Watch The Throne 2 is expected this year) and only three times through “Niggas In Paris.” Tyler, The Creator, whose own performance was canceled due to the deadly hit-and-run outside Mohawk, was there to crowdsurf but didn’t perform. Watch Kanye and Jay go “H.A.M.” below, as well as “Otis,” “What You Need,” “Run This Town,” “Clique,” “99 Problems,” and the final “Niggas In Paris” below.

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Setlist, via Fuse TV:

H.A.M.
Otis
Welcome to the Jungle
Gotta Have It
FuckkWithMeYouKnowIGotIt
Beach Is Better
Tom Ford
Drunk In Love
I Don’t Like
Sanctified
Black Skinhead
New Slaves
Jesus Walks
Diamonds From Sierra Leone
Public Service Announcement
You Don’t Know
Run This Town
Clique
Mercy
Good Life
Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
Empire State Of Mind
Runaway
Heartless
Stronger
On To The Next One
Dirt Off Your Shoulder
I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)
All Of The Lights
Big Pimpin’
Gold Digger
99 Problems
No Church In The Wild
Niggas In Paris (x3)

[2012 photo by Guillaume Baptiste / Getty Images]

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