Sample SourceSoul/R&B
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye·1968
from In the Groove
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Marvin Gaye's paranoid Motown classic — defined by its tense electric piano riff — was sampled for 'Spaceship.' Kanye looped the anxious groove beneath verses about working retail at the Gap and dreaming of escape, repurposing Gaye's romantic betrayal as a metaphor for systemic economic frustration.
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