West included "Heard 'Em Say" as the third live performance within the set list of his "Glow in the Dark Tour", which began on April 16, 2008 at the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. At the show's start, he's pulled to his feet as the opening strains of "Wake Up Mr. West" from his second album "Late Registration" played, after which he is informed that Earth had lost all its creativity, and must save the human race from a banal existence. The composition is but one of the many, various songs taken from West's first three studio albums that West uses for his conceptual concert. They serve to form a space opera storyline that details the story of how a stranded space traveler struggles for over a year making attempts to escape from a distant planet while on a mission to bring creativity back to Earth. In the narrative, West begins his voyage with a live rendition of "Heard 'Em Say" after conversing with the robotic, disembodied female voice of an onboard computer named Jane. He performed on a small, elaborate stage spread into a desert sand dune shrouded in billowing smoke before an enormous LED screen depicting a skyline that continually morphs from to pumping blue cells. West spent the entire performance onstage alone, rapping and singing lyrics of "Heard 'Em Say as his band played in a pit at the foot of the sloping stage. He wore jeans, a sweater with one missing sleeve, shoulder pads and a red windbreaker tied around his waist. Like most songs from his early albums, "Heard 'Em Say" was provided an electronic rendition that integrated with both the synthesizer quality of tracks from "Graduation" as well as the sci-fi theme of his conceptual concert.