About

Dancing Kanye is a video remix series featuring dubbed footage of rapper Kanye West dancing to a variety of different audio tracks.

Origin

On March 9th, 2014, the WorldStarHipHop Twitter feed posted a video of West dancing on stage during a performing his track "Say You Will" at Paris Fashion Week (shown below). In the first year, the tweet gained over 1,100 favorites and 860 comments.

That day, the "Dancing Kanye" Instagram feed was launched, featuring edited versions of the video with alternate music tracks dubbed over the original audio, the first of which included the 2001 R&B song "U Remind Me" by Usher (shown below).

Spread

On March 10th, 2015, the hot1079atl Instagram feed posted a Dancing Kanye video set to the theme from the television sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (shown below).

The same day, YouTuber VineArchive uploaded a Dancing Kanye video with the theme song from the animated television show Rugrats playing in the background (shown below, left). On March 11th, YouTuber Debora Grano uploaded a compilation of Dancing Kanye Vine videos (shown below, right). In the coming days, several news sites published articles highlighting notable examples of the video remix series, including People,^[2] The Huffington Post^[3] and Time.^[4]

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