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"Niggas in Paris"
Single by Jay-Z and Kanye West
from the album Watch the Throne
Released	September 13, 2011 (2011-09-13)
Recorded	2010–2011
Genre	Hip hop trap
Length	3:39
Label	Roc-A-Fella Roc Nation Def Jam
Songwriter(s)	Kanye West Shawn Carter Chauncey Hollis Mike Dean W.A. Donaldson
Producer(s)	Hit-Boy Kanye West
Jay-Z singles chronology
"Lift Off" (2011) "Niggas in Paris" (2011) "Why I Love You" (2011)
Kanye West singles chronology
"Amen" (2011) "Niggas in Paris" (2011) "Why I Love You" (2011)
Music video
"Niggas in Paris" on YouTube

"Niggas in Paris" (edited for radio as "In Paris" or simply "Paris"; censored on the album as "Ni**as in Paris") is a song by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West from their collaborative album Watch the Throne (2011). The song is built around a synth bell loop from the Dirty South Bangaz music library, and contains vocal samples from "Baptizing Scene" by Reverend W.A. Donaldson, an interpolation of "Victory" by Puff Daddy featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes, and dialogue excerpts from the 2007 film Blades of Glory. On the week of the album's release, "Niggas in Paris" debuted at number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100, eventually peaking at number five. Outside of the United States, "Niggas in Paris" peaked within the top ten of the charts in the United Kingdom. As of 2018, it has sold 6.7 million archetype digital units in the United States. The song won Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.

Background and recording

Jay-Z and West are both American rappers who have collaborated on several tracks together, such as singles like "Swagga Like Us" (2008), "Run This Town" (2009), and "Monster" (2010). In 2010, the two began production and recording together for a collaborative record titled Watch the Throne. West revealed that "Niggas in Paris" was inspired by the duality he witnessed when traveling to Paris as he cited examples of the hood and Hollywood, and him conversing with Karl Lagerfeld and Jay-Z during one hour. He described himself as "where art meets commercial" and made effort to dress up at fashion shows in Paris while listening to Jay-Z, concluding: "Jeezy in Paris, that's what it is." West said that the song's title came about "because Niggas was in [sic] Paris", where he had an office and a small courtyard near the retailer Colette. He compared the need for the album's odes before the song to bringing flowers to a door first. Speaking with GQ in November 2011, Jay-Z explained that the song's concept is focused on how him and West obtained their wealth rather than flaunting this at everybody. The rappers felt shocked with their impressive status and used it as a moment to question, "What are we doing here? How did we get here?" Jay-Z acknowledges the struggle that he made it past to reach success after having known many people who failed, placing himself in an entirely different category to people's children who studied at Harvard University.

West came up with the idea of sampling a couple of excerpts from actor Will Ferrell in the 2007 sports comedy film Blades of Glory, who agreed and was flattered by the usage on the song. Ferrell laughed when he first listened to the song due to a surreal feel and was appreciative, attempting to film a piece for the video boards of Jay-Z and West's concerts that never materialized. He also became aware of further opportunities to be sampled within hip hop music, considering the suitability of his films like Step Brothers (2008) and Melinda and Melinda (2004). In December 2013, Ferrell mentioned how he was later referenced in various hip hop songs and "Niggas in Paris" is the only one he cannot say the title of himself, joking that he sounds "ever whiter" when referring to it as "N-words from Paris". The song also samples Reverend W. A. Donaldson's "Baptizing Scene" (1960), which West sampled again on "Wouldn't Leave" from his 2018 album Ye.

During the album's sessions, West offered the beat of "Niggas in Paris" to fellow rapper and GOOD Music signee Pusha T, who rejected this offer. Pusha T felt it was too playful when he was "in demonic rap mode" and when writing tracks such as "My God", he did not want to change his focus to the beat's club appeal that West indicated. In May 2013, Pusha T compared the sound of the song to a video game and commented that West does send artists material they do not always connect with, then deliberately tries to prove them wrong. After record producer Hit-Boy first met West in 2007, he was later introduced to Jay-Z through him and engaged in recording sessions with the rappers at The Mercer Hotel for three weeks. Hit-Boy crafted a few beats for Watch the Throne that were initially not used at all, until he received a call from Don C asking for the beat of "Niggas in Paris". The producer then scrapped the plans for his associate Chilly Chill to upload the beat on a mixtape and he had recorded it quickly, feeling grateful as Jay-Z and West told him "that's our biggest record". The song was one of Hit-Boy's most simple works and he had overestimated how much he was ready for its success, feeling he truly grew up and placed himself under pressure to make a hit at the same level. Hit-Boy went against his preferred method of working on music for hours by creating the beat in five minutes and it inspired him to continue creating, realizing it is never known "what's gonna touch people" and anything that is meant "to line up will line up". Following the song's success, Hit-Boy felt he reached his peak as he moved into a mansion with five studios and his popularity continued into 2012. He remained there and went bankrupt within five years after investing his money in his peers, having made millions of dollars mostly from his Interscope deal rather than the song's publishing deal that went wrong. Parts of the song were taken from the album's sessions at the Le Meurice hotel in Paris during November 2010, while the later sessions at The Mercer Hotel were held in 2011. "Niggas in Paris" was produced by Hit-Boy with West and co-produced by Mike Dean, while Anthony Kilhoffer contributed additional production.

Artwork

The artwork for "Niggas in Paris" features the flag of France with a black third substituted for the blue one and is exactly the same cover used for Kanye West and Jay-Z's song "Why I Love You" which was released to radios simultaneously with "Niggas in Paris" on September 13, 2011. Alternative artwork, similar to the album cover, was used on Pandora.

Covers, remixes and freestyles

The official remix features rapper T.I. Remixes or freestyles on the production created by other artists include a remix by Chris Brown and T-Pain, a freestyle by Game titled "Niggas in Compton", a freestyle by Meek Mill which appeared on his mixtape Dreamchasers, a remix by Busta Rhymes, a remix by Chevy Woods titled "Taylors in Paris", a freestyle by Trey Songz which appeared on his mixtape #LemmeHolDatBeat2 titled "Trigga In Africa", a remix by E.S.G. titled "Niggas in Houston", and a remix by Felony titled "Niggas in Harris. Mos Def made a freestyle to the song called "Niggas in Poorest". Other rappers that did freestyles include Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Freddie Gibbs, Emilio Rojas, Traphik, and Romeo Miller. Casper has at times performed a German version of the track at concerts.

American post-hardcore band Pierce the Veil performed a clean part of the song on their 2011 No Guts, No Glory Tour.

In March 2012, Katy Perry performed a clean version cover of the track as part of a Live Lounge special for Fearne Cotton's show on BBC Radio 1.

American alternative metal band Faith No More covered the song live in 2012. The British rap metal/progressive metal/djent band Hacktivist released a cover of the song with an accompanying video in August 2013. Watsky released a freestyle of the song called "Ninjas in Paris".

The song was used in a promo for the 2012 NBA All-Star Game.

Music video

On December 13, 2011, after their last Los Angeles stop at Staples Center on their Watch the Throne Tour, Jay-Z announced that the live performance would be used for the song's music video. The video, which was produced by Good Company, was released on February 9, 2012, through VEVO and was directed by West himself. The video features the live concert footage treated with strobe effects, kaleidoscopic mirrored images, inserts of jungle cats, and imagery of Paris landmarks (prominently Notre Dame de Paris). As with the track itself, the video also features a brief snippet of footage from Blades of Glory. Kid Cudi, Hit-Boy, and King Chip make brief appearances in the video. The video also contains a warning message to viewers on the flash photography in the video.

The video received a nomination for Video of the Year at the 2012 BET Awards, losing to the duo's other song "Otis" "Niggas in Paris" received two nominations at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Editing and Best Hip-Hop Video. The song was also nominated for Best International Urban Video at the 2012 UK Music Video Awards.

Critical reception

The song received universal acclaim from critics. Rolling Stone commented on the song by saying "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 Will Ferrell/Jon Heder ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory. 'No one knows what it means, but it's provocative,' says Ferrell with deep conviction, essentially summing up the art of hip-hop lyrics." Erika Ramirez of Billboard commented on the song by saying, "Kanye steals the show on the Hit-Boy produced club anthem. A sampling of dialogue from the 2007 film Blades of Glory is tucked in between." The Guardian called the song a standout track on the album and also commented by saying "This percolating track could have been produced by Wiley, with sick sub-bass and a snare that sounds like static. Both rappers are in excellent form, with West repeating 'That shit cray'. Kanye begins at half-time and speeds up. Among the lines that jump out: "I'm suffering from realness" and 'Don't let me get in my zone.' A standout track." Pitchfork complimented that the song possessed great moments by Kanye West and said the following: "It also features this great Kanye moment, 'Doctors say I'm the illest because I'm suffering from realness/Got my niggas in Paris, and they going gorillas.'"

Accolades

Digital Spy placed the track on their 24th spot of the best songs of 2011, while Consequence ranked it 13th on their list of the year's top 50 songs. The song was named as the 12th best track of 2011 by Pitchfork, whose author Ryan Dombal wrote that West's hah ad-lib successfully summarizes the "one-percent-ness of Watch the Throne" as he commended the lyrical style of him and Jay-Z. Amazon named it the eighth best song of 2011. The track was voted fifth on The Village Voice's yearly Pazz & Jop poll, receiving 64 mentions. Rolling Stone named the song the second best single of 2011, with the staff praising the "minimalist thunder pegged to a tweedling synth line" and the lyrical opulence. XXL crowned "Niggas In Paris" as the best song of the year and the staff praised the direction of the bouncy production as Jay-Z and West "took balling to new frontiers", noting its club appeal too. For 2011, the magazine also listed the song as the "hottest beat".

Complex ranked the song as the 20th best of their decade, which spanned from when the magazine was founded in 2002 to its 10th anniversary in 2012. In 2014, NME ranked it as the best track of the 2010s decade thus far. In the same year, Fact ranked the track 64th on their list of the 100 best songs of the decade so far. That same year, Pitchfork placed the song at number 36 on their list and Kyle Kramer considered it "the crown jewel" of the opulence of Watch the Throne and the exception to the album's production due to the simplistic beat. In 2015, Billboard listed it as the fifth best song of the 2010s. In the same year, Way Too Indie ranked the song as the 13th best of the decade. Uproxx ranked "Niggas in Paris" as the 80th best song of the 2010s in 2019, the same year that Consequence placed it at number 44 on their list. In 2019, Business Insider ranked the track as the 35th best song of the decade and Stereogum named it as the 11th best; Tom Breihan highlighted the chemistry of Jay-Z flaunting his wealth and West boasting of his rap skills.

For the 2014 issue of XXL that celebrated 40 years of hip hop, the track was listed as one of the five best singles of 2007. The song was chosen for the year of 2011 in The Rap Year Book, which deconstructed the most important rap song from every year since 1979 until 2015. NME named "Niggas in Paris" the 81st best song of all time in 2014. Highsnobiety placed "Niggas in Paris" at number 11 on their list of West's best songs in 2017, a year before Complex named the song as his sixth best. Also in 2018, Rolling Stone crowned the song as the 58th best of the century so far and the staff praised its "over-the-top indulgence", as well as the hook that makes fun of haters and the "dark truth underlying the mayhem" of the lyrical content.

The song was nominated for Anthem of the Summer at the 2013 UK Festival Awards

Live performances

The song has been performed on the Watch the Throne Tour. MTV News said with "the track's Will Ferrell intro ('We're gonna skate to one song and one song only') brought on the moment that everyone was waiting for." USA Today commented "at one point, as Jay-Z and West performed Niggas in Paris from their new hit CD, Watch the Throne, West exhorted the audience to 'Bounce! Bounce!' The resulting stomping had Philips Arena rocking and shaking in a way that it hasn't for the Hawks in a long time."

In early stops, the song was performed three times. Kanye West and Jay-Z began performing the song more than thrice at the Miami show at American Airlines Arena by performing the song five times. The song was played six times at the TD Garden in Boston on November 21, 2011 setting a record for the tour at the time. It was then broken when it was performed seven times at The Palace of Auburn Hills. It was again broken on December 1, 2011 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois when the duo performed the song 8 times.

On December 12, 2011 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, the song was played a total of 9 times, a record which would stand until the next night, when the duo performed the song 10 times. The crowd was also told that cameras had been brought to the concert for the record breaking December 13 performance to film the music video for the song. The song was also performed live as part of the 2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. During the Final Tour Stop in Vancouver the aforementioned record was met again with the duo performing the song ten times on the final night, December 18 at Rogers Arena, despite several newspaper articles claiming that it was performed a total of eleven times.

On June 1, 2012 during their first date in Paris, at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, they actually broke the record, performing the song 11 times. They claimed themselves that the record was held by Los Angeles, when Jay-Z said: "The record is held by L.A. with ten times. But this song isn't called "Niggas in Los Angeles". We gotta break that record and bring it to 11", thus ending the rumors concerning the record being broken in Vancouver. The last record (established in Paris as well) has been broke again on June 18, 2012, performed 12 times in Paris at Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy. The song was performed live at BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend on 23 June 2012 as part of the London 2012 Festival.

"Niggas in Paris" was also performed in Kanye's Israel concert at Ramat Gan Stadium on 30 September 2015.

Chart performance

On August 27, 2011, "Niggas in Paris" made its debut on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 75, making it the second highest debut for any non-single on the album behind only "Who Gon Stop Me". On the US Billboard Hot Digital Songs the song debuted at number 58 even before it was released as a single from the album. It eventually peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the 11th top five hit for Jay-Z, and 10th for West. It was the third song on which they've teamed to make the top five, following "Swagga Like Us" and "Run This Town". The song had sold two million copies by February 2012, and reached three million in sales in the United States by December 2012. The song had the second most Rhythmic, and sixth most Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop radio songs spins in the 2010s decade.

In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at number ten on the UK Singles Chart on March 18, 2012 ― for the week ending date March 24, 2012 ― spending ten weeks in the top 40 of the chart, selling 200,000 copies. According to the Official Charts Company, the song sold 432,000 copies in the United Kingdom in 2012. The song was the 17th most streamed song of 2012 in the UK. As of October 24, 2019, "Niggas in Paris" has sold 1.45 million chart sales in the UK and is ranked as West's fifth most successful track of all time on the UK Singles Chart. In April 2017, Official Charts Company revealed "Niggas in Paris" was the 18th highest-selling hip-hop song of all time in the United Kingdom.

Credits and personnel

The credits for "Niggas in Paris" are adapted from the liner notes of Watch the Throne.

Recording

• Recorded at Hôtel Meurice, Paris.

Personnel

• Kanye West – songwriting, vocals, production
• Jay-Z – songwriting, vocals
• Hit-Boy – songwriting, production
• Mike Dean – mastering, songwriting, production
• Anthony Kilhoffer – audio mixing, additional production
• Noah Goldstein – recording

Sample credits

• Contains samples from the 2007 motion picture Blades of Glory, used courtesy of Paramount Pictures, and contains elements of "Baptizing Scene", performed and written by Reverend W.A. Donaldson (from Alan Lomax's 1960 compilation Sounds of the South).

Charts

Certifications

Release history

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• Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance
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