page_title: Otis (song)
section_title: Live performances
hierarchical_section_title: Otis (song) / Live performances
caption_attribution_description: English: Kanye West and Jay-Z performing at Staples Center on December 11, 2011 in Los Angeles on their Watch the Throne Tour.
context_page_description: "Otis" is a song by American hip hop artists Jay-Z and Kanye West from their first collaborative album Watch the Throne. The song posthumously features soul singer Otis Redding, whose version of "Try a Little Tenderness" is sampled in the song. The production was covered solely by West. The track was premiered by Funkmaster Flex's Hot 97 radio show and was released onto the Internet the day afterward. Lyrically, the song has the two rappers sharing lines discussing wealth, decadence and fame. The track received highly positive reviews from music critics who praised the trading off of verses by the two rappers and the Redding-sampled beat, which was compared to the style heard on West's The College Dropout. Several publications placed the song amongst the best of the year.
  The track was released as the second single from Watch the Throne on July 20, 2011. The song peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached position 2 on both the Billboard Hot Rap Songs and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts. The song has since been certified 2x Platinum for sales exceeding 2,000,000. The song received a music video directed by Spike Jonze in August 2011.
context_section_description: On August 28, 2011, Jay-Z & Kanye West performed the song for the first time at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. The two rappers marched down the runaway with "flames erupting in the background." The song was performed at all stops of their 2011–12 Watch the Throne Tour, generally as one of the opening tracks. It was performed "with a Givenchy-designed American flag flashing on the stage's main screen." During Jay-Z's setlist at the 2012 Radio 1's Big Weekend festival, West joined Jay-Z to perform "Otis" and other Watch the Throne hits like "Niggas in Paris" and "No Church in the Wild".
caption: West and Jay-Z performed "Otis" at their Watch the Throne tour.
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