It's not unusual for hip-hop phenom Kanye West to sample varying genres, but it really threw me for a loop to find out that he had sampled electronica legend Aphex Twin. The song in which he samples Aphex Twin is a pretty chill one with a fairly simple piano loop as a backdrop:
It's certainly not akin to some of the work Aphex Twin is most famous for, like "Come To Daddy" or the infamous "Windowlicker," which has been described as sounding like "robots having sex:"
Well, the song that West sampled is called "Avril 14th." It was released on his 2001 album Drukqs:
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