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Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar Mash-Up Hits the Web

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111214 TaylorSwift?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1415834972884Ida Mae Astute / ABC(NEW YORK) — When Taylor Swift’s album 1989 sold 1.287 million records in its first week, she celebrated by lip-syncing the Kendrick Lamar rap “Backstreet Freestyle.”

Now, a mash-up of the song mixed with her hit “Shake It Off” has hit the Web. (Listen to it here, but note that there is some explicit language.)

“Industry experts predicted 1989 would sell 650k first week. You went and bought 1.287 million albums. AND IT’S GOT ME LIKE,” Swift, 24, wrote on Instagram last week — a lead-in to a video of her mouthing the words to Lamar’s song. Sample lyric? “Goddaamn, I feel amazing, damn I’m in the matrix/My mind is living on cloud nine and this nine is never on vacation.”

It’s been a big week for Swift, as her video for “Blank Space,” in which she plays a crazed ex-girlfriend, was released just two days ago.


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