Champion (Kanye West song)

"Champion"
"Champion"
Song by Kanye West
from the album Graduation
Released	September 11, 2007
Studio	Sony Music (NYC); Record Plant (Hollywood);
Genre	Hip hop; electro; R&B;
Length	2:47
Label	Roc-A-Fella; Def Jam;
Songwriter(s)	Kanye West; Walter Becker; Donald Fagen;
Producer(s)	Kanye West; Brian "AllDay" Miller;

"Champion" is a song by Kanye West from his third studio album, Graduation (2007). The song samples "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan. Kanye West sent a letter to Donald Fagen, one of the people in Steely Dan, to ask if he could use the song as a sample.^[1] Fagen and Walter Becker got writing credits on the song for the sample.^[2] The song is about Kanye West and his father, Ray West.

References

↑ Cush, Andy (September 11, 2017). "Kanye West Got the Steely Dan Sample on Graduation Cleared by Sending Donald Fagen a Handwritten Letter". Spin. Archived from the original on October 30, 2018.
↑ Kanye West (2007). Graduation (Media notes). Roc-A-Fella Records.

[Cush-1] Cush, Andy (September 11, 2017). "Kanye West Got the Steely Dan Sample on Graduation Cleared by Sending Donald Fagen a Handwritten Letter". Spin. Archived from the original on October 30, 2018.

[linernotes-2] Kanye West (2007). Graduation (Media notes). Roc-A-Fella Records.

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