This is a track from Chicago rapper Kanye West's fifth studio album, titled My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The song leaked to the Internet on September 29, 2010.
The song about love gone wrong features indie-folk singer Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. West had Vernon flown to the Hawaii studio where the album was being cut, and had him rerecord the vocals from his Blood Bank EP track, Woods for this song.
West first came across the song when Ed Banger Records boss Pedro Winter played West the track and talked about his plan to sample it. West asked if he could use "Woods" instead, and got Bon Iver into the studio. "I called [Vernon] and we ended up becoming like really good friends, playing basketball together everyday, and going into the back studio and just record his parts," West told Rolling Stone. "He's similar to me, like where he just does s--t just so people would be like, 'Oh s--t how did you do that? How did that happen?' He's just a really cool guy to be around."
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