It all started innocently enough, Kanye lifting “Young Folks” for his mixtape and plastering a bunch of “uh uh” and “uh-uh-uhhh”s overtop the tune’s ubiquitous whistle. Then Kanye broke the fourth wall and invited PB&J to perform the tune with him live at Gothenburg, Sweden’s Way Out West Festival, which netted the YouTube you’ll see below. Definitely no whistling track, definitely live bongos, definitely a bit of a mindfuck: PBJ&Ye…

More footage here and here. Kanye’s getting good at this hype-man-for-guitar-bands thing! Jeah-jeah-jeah-jeah.

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Kanye West – Young Folks (Peter Bjorn and John Cover)
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Comments (11)
  1. blah blah blah who cares, let’s talk more about the prospect of kanye forcing 50 cent into retirement.

  2. Jace  |   Posted on Aug 14th, 2007

    I dont see why this song is so popular. I saw them perform it live on tv today, its nothing special.

  3. fuck kanye…and i’m close to saying fuck PB&J. what are they doing?!

  4. Liam  |   Posted on Aug 14th, 2007

    that was pretty disappointing. why can’t he perform live with daft punk?!?!

  5. Mitchell Hurwitz  |   Posted on Aug 14th, 2007

    misconception/improper use of “breaking the fourth wall,” (not to mention unnecessary).

  6. so-Fresh  |   Posted on Aug 14th, 2007

    Kanye did some amazing production on Common’s latest album. All his beats are creative and fun! If you watch his videos http://www.imf.com/videos/?op=artist_videos&artist=Kanye%20West# on IMF, you’ll see what I am saying. I don’t mean to pump up Kanye, but he is the best out now, with Primo. He sounds like no one else and is consistent.

  7. rastafarianlibrarian  |   Posted on Aug 14th, 2007

    “breaking the fourth wall” is the “rosa parks” of misused metaphors.

  8. jeffo  |   Posted on Aug 15th, 2007

    kanye is awful. I don’t understand why anyone thinks he’s a good rapper.

  9. sean  |   Posted on Aug 15th, 2007

    Please coin the PBJ&Ye term. its gold.

  10. i laughed at a comment, yes i did  |   Posted on Aug 15th, 2007

    word, rastafarianlibrarian. word.

  11. aaron  |   Posted on Sep 11th, 2007

    Fucking tone-deaf…

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