Sample SourceProgressive Rock
21st Century Schizoid Man
King Crimson·1969
from In the Court of the Crimson King
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King Crimson's proto-metal assault — a seven-minute prog-rock odyssey of distorted saxophone and fractured time signatures — was sampled for 'Paranoid' on 808s & Heartbreak. Kanye stripped the aggression down to a haunting melodic loop and sang over it through Auto-Tune, transforming Robert Fripp's anxious fury into something vulnerable and ghostly.
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