Last year’s Yeezus proved to be one of Kanye West’s most ambitious projects of his career so far and while it’s a notable effort from Yeezy himself, the people behind the sound of an album of this magnitude are as important as the artist.
The producer behind “New Slaves,” Benjamin Bronfman, has revealed a bit of the history behind the making of this track. Part of the collective Teachers, Bronfman talked to Rolling Stone about how Kanye approached him to provide beats for his then-in-the-making new album revealing “He kept saying, ‘Just make it hot, make it really dope’… He didn’t really get into specifics, which is funny – he’s the type of person who will get really specific in person, but not on the phone.”
Eventually he created a song called “Cruel Cold Winter,” which would be the foundation of what would become “New Slaves.”
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