Kanye West Earns His First Diamond File With A Little Assist From Daft Punk
Fourteen years after its preliminary launch, Kanye West’s “Stronger” lastly goes diamond with 10 million equal gross sales.
The music was launched on West’s 2004 album Commencement and famously samples Daft Punk’s “More durable, Higher, Quicker, Stronger.”
Writes HipHopDX, “The genre-blending tune was a labor of affection for Kanye West and his workforce because the monitor was combined over 75 instances and had greater than 10 engineers engaged on perfecting the file — till Timbaland got here in on the final minute to make the ‘drums pop.’”
“When [Kanye] sampled Daft Punk on an ASR-10, Plain Pat stated, ‘You’ll be able to’t flip this. It’s not going to work.’ Pat was extremely skeptical,” stated Anthony Kilhoffersaid, one in every of Kanye’s go-to engineers. “On the finish of the day, he cooked up ‘Stronger’ in 5 minutes, and it was fairly a departure from the boom-bap Kanye West manufacturing, and the start of experimenting with different albums.
Kanye West’s ‘Stronger’ is now @RIAA licensed DIAMOND ? ! Congratulations to Yeezy and all the workforce. pic.twitter.com/ISgiWiF52b
— Def Jam Recordings (@defjam) October 6, 2021
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