Paul McCartney Responds to Twitter Ridiculousness Over Kanye West Collaboration
Music legend joins forces with West on "Only One," leaving many social media users to ask, "Paul who?"
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Paul McCartney opened up about his new chart-topping Kanye West collaboration on Friday, just he isn't the merely one tweeting nearly "Merely One."
"For any of y'all guys who were wondering what I was doing with @kanyewest," McCartney wrote in a tweet that linked to the runway. "Happy rocking new year!"
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Merely a smattering of smart-alecs have been giving the McCartney social-media grief over the pairing, with many making jokes about how the rapper's younger fans may accept never even heard of the legendary rocker, nor his old band the Beatles.
"I don't know who Paul McCartney is, but Kanye is going to give this homo a career w/ this new vocal!!" wrote OVOJosh.
"Who the fuck is Paul McCartney?" added Theo_Sofianos. "This why I fuck with Kanye. He always trying to put on new artists."
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There's a good take a chance many of the tweets were in jest, but some music fans have taken them seriously and are upset past the slighting of McCartney, who has helped sell over 100 1000000 albums, cowrote with John Lennon one of the near famous songs ever in "Yesterday" and was even knighted for his contributions to the globe of music.
"Kanye W did a vocal with Paul McCartney and people on Twitter are asking who Paul McCartney is and now I understand domestic terrorism," wrote KimballBennion.
"The downfall of America'southward youth has officially concluded with people not knowing who Paul McCartney is," added DukeOfHoops.
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Whether the people know him or not, McCartney and West'southward collaboration "Just One" has taken off. An ode to the rapper's young girl Northward West, the song features Due west singing over McCartney's soothing keyboard sounds.
The track was released on New Yr's Eve and already reached #3 on the iTunes charts.
Hear "Only I."
Here'south McCartney'south tweet:
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