Well, she knew all the words. The modified words, that is. Katy Perry replaced the n-word and other profanity with “ninjas” and “mofos” when she performed a cover of Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Ni—as in Paris” over the weekend. The crowd didn’t exactly get into it, and Gawker’s Emma Carmichael says she “desecrated” the hit Watch the Throne song.
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