Watch Kanye West Debut a Jay Z–Sampling Seven-Minute Song
Noisey writes that Kanye West did "a low-key show at 10AK in Los Angeles" on Tuesday, Feb. 23. And courtesy of a new video showing 'Ye soundboard-jockeying the way he did at Madison Square Garden, we've got a new song, possibly called "Closest Thing to Einstein"—which would add up with previous self-comparisons—and apparently more than seven minutes long.
The track samples Jay Z's In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 classic "Where I'm From." (It technically samples a tiny Yvonne Fair sound blip sample, but.) It seems like it's got Drake's "Too Much" collaborator Sampha, too.
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