One cute Brooklyn kid is stealing Kanye West’s spotlight.
In a quick-to-go-viral unofficial video for West’s new hit “Way Too Cold,” a pint-size West imitator raps the PG-13 lyrics while making his way through midtown New York with a hot blond at his side.
People wearing masks of Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and Condoleezza Rice also appear in the spoof.
The video, directed by Brooklyn native Ashley Smith, 28, received more than 20,000 hits on YouTube in less than 24 hours after he posted it Thursday afternoon.
“I’m super-excited,” he told the Daily News on Friday. “It went viral in like four hours, I’ve never experienced anything like this before.”
Smith said he came up with the idea last week after hearing the song for the first time with a friend.
Immediately, he said, he knew he had to do a video for it.
“I’m a huge Kanye fan, he’s absolutely one of my favorite artists and to me he’s always kind of represented a large kid,” Smith said. “He kind of wears his heart on his sleeve, he speaks honestly and I feel like I can relate to him creatively.”
In the span of less than five days, Smith cast the video, picking a 6-year-old named Caleb to play the young version of Kanye; the boy’s father answered the casting call.
“My producer said, ‘He’s adorable, you have to use him!’ ” Smith said.
Immediately, Caleb was a hit with the crew — as well as the video’s viewers.
Smith said the little rapper, for the most part, had no idea what he was spewing while performing a song filled with expletives.
“In the beginning, he may have been slightly aware that some of them were curse words, so he was so scared to say it,” Smith said. “We said, ‘It’s okay, just this once.’ ”
West’s hit originally received attention for its lyrics confessing his love for Kim Kardashian.
‘Way Too Cold’ was originally called “Theraflu,” but West had to retitle it after the medicine’s parent company threatened legal action.
While the rapper hasn’t reached out to Smith yet about the video, the freelance director and videographer is hoping that he takes a look — and maybe gives him a shot on an upcoming video.
“I just love to work with creative people and Kanye is like the epitome of creativity to me,” he said. “I would like to work with him, not just because he’s Kanye, but because he’s an inspiration.”
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