Sample SourceSoul
Try a Little Tenderness
Otis Redding·1966
from Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
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Otis Redding's iconic soul performance — building from a whisper to an ecstatic crescendo — was sampled for 'Otis' with Jay-Z on Watch the Throne. Kanye and Jay chopped the vocal into stuttering fragments, turning Redding's pleading tenderness into a triumphant celebration of Black wealth and cultural inheritance.
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