When listing the 25 best Kanye verses of all time, Complex ranked the first verse at number 22. Rolling Stone viewed the track as showcasing West's 'hard-ass politics'. Pitchfork felt positively towards "Crack Music", describing it as 'a blustery martial stomp' and complementing: 'its soaring choir and biblically extended outro'. Williams believed that Game had a verse on it at one point.
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After black people were like, 'I don't know about this one.' It was like me reaching too high for the cookie jar. Shortly before the release of the album, West revealed in an interview with Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian that the track was recorded after "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" and explained that he was trying to record something different from the song by saying:Īll this is saying is, OK I see now, the 'hood does not quite want Shirley Bassey yet, so let me still give them this. In April 2010, Tony Williams revealed that "Crack Music" was supposed to be a Puffy record, until he passed it on to West.
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I don't like the word, and I made an attempt to change it on this new song 'Crack Music.' I tried saying, ‘This is crack music, homey,' but it just didn't have the same impact. It was revealed by West to TIME that he originally planned on releasing the song with usage of the term 'homey' instead of rapping "nigga", but he elaborated on why that didn't happen by saying: West drops a large number of political references throughout it. The track contains a sample of 1977 track "Since You Came Into My Life" by The New York Community Choir.