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Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump Discusses His Cover Of Kanye West's 'Love Lockdown'

 
'I hope Kanye doesn't mind that I did it,' singer tells MTV News. By James Montgomery Patrick Stump Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images On Sunday, Fall Out Boy fans who are still actively following the rather Byzantine viral campaign for the band's new album, Folie à Deux — a campaign that has grown from a simple hijacked Web site to include Pete Wentz giving away sneakers and delivering doughnuts while wearing a wig and a fake mustache — were rewarded with a rather unique gift: A cover of Kanye West 's "Love Lockdown," purportedly recorded by FOB frontman Patrick Stump . And while the track certainly sounds like Stump's handiwork, many FOB fans (and MTV News) were wondering if it really was him or if the whole thing was just another layer to the ever-expanding Folie campaign. In order to get to the bottom of things, we decided to reach out to Stump himself. Surely, he'd be able to set the record straight. "Yeah, [the cover] is ... (link)

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