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Kanye West Performs Rousing 'Lost In The World' At Thanksgiving Day Parade

Despite appearing to be lip-synching, rapper delivers spirited performance at annual Macy's event.
By Alvin Blanco

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The Kanye West promo march continues, so naturally the Chicago rapper took his show to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Amidst marching bands and balloon versions of Kermit the Frog, SpongeBob SquarePants and Spider-Man, Yeezy performed a rousing though shortened rendition of "Lost in the World" from his just-released fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

As more than two million people lined the parade route and millions more watched from home, West performed in front of Macy's flagship location near Manhattan's Herald Square on 34th Street at around 11:20 a.m. West kicked his verse from "Lost in the World" along with its chorus atop the Big Apple float, which was adorned with a giant apple and a New York taxicab coming out of a tunnel below it. Wearing a long fur vest, leather pants and a gold V-neck shirt, West delivered a spirited performance despite the fact that he appeared to be lip-synching.

Interestingly, Matt Lauer was one of the NBC broadcast's hosts of the parade. Lauer interviewed West during his infamous appearance on the "Today" show that led the rapper to cancel a scheduled performance on the program. West also compared Lauer to a child abuser during a speech at his not-so-secret show at New York's Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night. Nevertheless, it was Lauer who introduced West.

Other performers at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade included the casts of the Broadway musicals "Memphis" and "Elf," Jimmy Fallon with the Roots, folk singer Arlo Guthrie and Keri Hilson, who performed on the My Princess Academy float.

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