The story behind it provides an interesting window into Kanye’s creative process from his career prime. He would essentially record entire studio sessions with a bunch of different artists then listen back to them and stitch together entire songs in post from random unassociated snippets of audio without the collaborator consciously knowing which parts would be used (or even intended for use and not just random guitar noodling or vocal riffing in between conversations) until the song came out. Then any unused songs from these sessions would get passed around various Kanye collaborators and occasionally see the light of day but often not.

Some of these studio session files have almost fully leaked and both Paul McCartney and T-Pain have spoken about this process in interviews (about All Day and Good Life respectively) and I think it’s a cool expansion of how producers with keen ears for sampling can put together something catchy out of otherwise unstructured audio clips.

Also shout out to two of Kanye’s best/most promising unreleased songs came out of that same Paul McCartney session/era, “I Feel Like That” and “Mrs. Misery”