Sample SourceSpoken Word/Soul
Comment No. 1
Gil Scott-Heron·1970
from Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
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Gil Scott-Heron's spoken-word commentary on American cultural decay was sampled for 'Who Will Survive in America,' the closing track of MBDTF. Kanye let Scott-Heron's words about lost principles play over a mournful soul backdrop, using the revolutionary poet as the album's moral epilogue.
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