How? It's one of the most iconic hip hop and pop beats of the 2000s
And there's something cool about him looking to such a blues-influenced, gospel-influenced sample to make the biggest hit of his career. It puts him in a very special lineage and tradition
Also, it preempts the vintage remix sound that became so big in a lot of countries festival and club scene for a while
And in some ways it predates what he's doing on Monster too
Gold Digger is his most iconic song OAT
Stronger is his biggest hit.
Ask this question on June 2013, and half the people would’ve said On Sight 🤣🤣
NIGGAS WASNT ROCKING WITH YEEZUS LIKE WE WAS, NIGGAS THOUGHT HIS CAREER WAS OVER BECAUSE HE AINT DO SOME BASIC ASS RAP S***, NIGGAS TASTE LEVEL AINT AT MY WAIST LEVEL, HILD ME BACK IM BOUTTA SPAZ
NIGGAS WASNT ROCKING WITH YEEZUS LIKE WE WAS, NIGGAS THOUGHT HIS CAREER WAS OVER BECAUSE HE AINT DO SOME BASIC ASS RAP S***, NIGGAS TASTE LEVEL AINT AT MY WAIST LEVEL, HILD ME BACK IM BOUTTA SPAZ
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People didn’t start s***ting on Gold Digger until Kanye himself did. I’d pay it no mind.
And the context was that he preferred how he sampled Curtis Mayfield on Otis as opposed to Gold digger and that he didn’t “really” wanna do the Gold digger record but knew it would get him paid.
I always thought Kanye said that just to be contrarian. He performed the 18 years verse for Def Poetry Jam and was gonna include it as a bonus track on College Dropout. There’s no way he didn’t want to do the record tbh
Stronger is his biggest hit.
I don't think so tbh, Stronger is only bigger if you count the sample as well which you can't really That sample was already big to a lot of people.. I feel like both get meshed together in a lot of people's mind, but Gold Digger feels more standalone culturally.
Gold Digger is his only song on the all time Billboard Hot 100 too..
you're legitimately in the 1% that thinks the Ift yourself beat is trash
No he’s not. Never understood why people liked it
I don't think so tbh, Stronger is only bigger if you count the sample as well which you can't really That sample was already big to a lot of people.. I feel like both get meshed together in a lot of people's mind, but Gold Digger feels more standalone culturally.
Gold Digger is his only song on the all time Billboard Hot 100 too..
Stronger is by all mesures his biggest song. It's Pop-rap the crossover appeal alone puts it over golddigger
Kanye couldve taken inspo from any renowned uk jungle/dnb producer and he decides to use flux pavillion
😂😂😂😂 that was a pretty good track
Lift Yourself beat is legitimately bad
like the sample is good but once the actual beat comes in it reminds me of that RZA guitar center video
I actually agree
The sample is the only thing that’s legitimately good on it but even that’s overrated
If J Cole made the lift yourself beat everybody on the internet would clown him
Selah is the correct answer.
Probably his only boring production.
I never joke
Selah really boring to me.