--- title: Kanye West Asks Seth Rogen, James Franco to Perform Bound 2 At Wedding description: The rapper requested that the funnymen recreate their parody of his "Bound 2" music video canonical: https://time.com/74249/kanye-west-seth-rogen-james-franco-bound-2-parody/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-23T19:33:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:03.624Z og:title: Kanye West Asked Seth Rogen and James Franco to Perform Their 'Bound 2' Parody at His Wedding og:description: The rapper requested a parody of his "Bound 2" video og:url: https://time.com/74249/kanye-west-seth-rogen-james-franco-bound-2-parody/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5805f6dea297d49d/69868c1855a859a674a80794/163300742.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: 163300742 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kanye West Asked Seth Rogen and James Franco to Perform Their 'Bound 2' Parody at His Wedding twitter:description: The rapper requested a parody of his "Bound 2" video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5805f6dea297d49d/69868c1855a859a674a80794/163300742.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kanye West Asked Seth Rogen and James Franco to Perform Their 'Bound 2' Parody at His Wedding > Sponsored content. 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Apparently, Kanye loved it so much that he asked the duo to perform it as his upcoming wedding in France, Pitchfork [reports](http://pitchfork.com/news/54894-kanye-west-asked-james-franco-and-seth-rogen-to-perform-their-bound-2-parody-at-his-wedding/). The 36-year-old actor explained during a recent appearance on _The View_ that Kanye called him and Rogen two weeks ago requesting a special wedding performance. “It would have been awesome for about 20 seconds,” Franco said, “but then there would be Seth with his shirt off in front all the Kardashians.” So yeah, let’s not get our hopes up. 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