Is Blood on the leaves about slavery?
Is Blood on the leaves about slavery? Slavery, society, and death are all reoccurring themes on this album, but for Kanye, fame is the killer. Society as a whole, but especially black Americans, is bleeding at the expense of money, materialism, and big corporations; selling their souls for “blood on the leaves,” a tainted material reward.
What song is sampled on Blood on the leaves? It contains samples of both singer Nina Simone’s 1965 rendition of Billie Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit”, and “R U Ready” by the duo TNGHT, who co-produced the track.
Is Blood on the leaves Kanye’s best song? You may or may not agree that “Blood on the Leaves” is Kanye West’s best song. But you’d be hard pressed to find one that is more inimitably Kanye West. The track is a veritable summary of Kanye’s career, distilling a decade’s years worth of sonic and thematic tics and obsessions into six riveting minutes.
When did blood on the leaves release?