Who Will Survive in America

Album: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is built on a sample of Gil Scott-Heron's spoken-word blunt, surrealist piece "Comment No. 1," which is about the African-American experience and the death of the American dream. It follows on directly from the preceding track "Lost In The World," which samples the same song.

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