About This Sample
Curtis Mayfield's aspirational soul anthem — a nine-minute journey of horn-driven optimism — was sampled for 'Touch the Sky.' Kanye and Just Blaze isolated the propulsive horn fanfare and compressed it into a triumphant three-minute celebration, channeling Mayfield's Chicago civil rights energy into a victory lap for making it in the music industry.
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Web of Influence
1970
Curtis Mayfield
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