Last week, Eminem shocked followers the world over with a brand new album, Kamikaze, his tenth studio launch.
What got here as a good larger shock to followers, significantly those that benefit from the vastly fashionable JRPG Kingdom Hearts, was that album producer Illadaproducer sampled Simple & Clean by Utada Hikaru for the observe “Good Guy”, one thing he confirmed in a Rolling Stone interview:
“That’s me doing my video game thing. Kingdom Hearts. It’s a Japanese video game, and that’s the theme song from it. It’s one of the dopest melodies I’ve ever heard. Shout out Japanese video games and Japanimation for inspiration. Filtered it, did some chops, did some processing to it. I basically made it unrecognizable, but I know they would have still found it. That’s why we had to deal with the clearance. But when I do anything I try to make it to where it’s not fully recognizable.”
It could be simply missed, nonetheless, the sample is listed on the lyric site Genius.com. Whilst Eminem is understood for sampling all through his again catalogue, that is his first enterprise into sampling video game music and we’re undoubtedly into it.
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