Kanye West Delivers One of Greatest Hip-Hop Sets of All Time at Coachella
9:33 AM PDT 4/18/2011 by Jeff Miller
Hip-hop wunderkind Kanye West doesn't have the best track record as a live-festival attraction: most of his fans remember an ill-planned performance at Bonnaroo in which he emerged hours late, performing a lighting-show-reliant set as the sun came up to a bitter, rapidly-emptying corral of fans. So, the notoriously fickle performer's festival-closing set at this year's Coachella festival in Indio, CA, was under a fairly intense microscope, since another major screw-up in such a high-profile environment would cement his reputation as difficult and unreliable.
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