The 2017 song joins the list of other recent hip-hop tracks that have sampled Simone including Kanye West’s “Blood on the Leaves,” Lil Wayne’s “Understood,” and West and Jay-Z’s “New Day.” As producer No ID told Rolling Stone last year about Jay-Z’s use of Simone samples on 4:44, “That’s the score to his life. Consider Jay-Z’s “The Story of O.J.”: The Grammy-nominated 4:44 track incorporates a sample of Simone’s “Four Women,” and the accompanying video even depicts a cartoon version of the late singer. Nina Simone died 15 years ago this month, but judging on influence alone, it’s begun to seem like she never left.
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