Any fan of Connie West knows just how great he is at sampling, taking an existing, often older song and flipping it into something completely new.

But as we've discovered many times throughout this season,

Connie doesn't just use samples for aesthetic purposes.

They almost always add contextual thematic depth to the song

and help propel an album's narrative.

On Yiza so far, we heard this technique in the gospel sample of Onsite and the Hungarian sample at the end of New slaves, just to name a few.

Both of these gave us insight into the Yiz's character's psychological state and provided key narrative plot points and

foreshadowing. But there's nothing more layered than what we hear on the album's seventh track,

Blood on the Leaves, an unusual collage of songs both past and present.

Most prominent is the historically potent song Strange Fruit, recorded by Nina Simone.

Strange Fruit Hang in. Then there's an interpolation of Jay-Z's 2001 track Heart of the City. We also find a sample of the

... We also find a sample of the duo tonight's

electronic song Are You Ready?

And finally we get an interpolation of no-limit records see murder. All of these songs are referenced or

possibly my nieks what.

All of these songs are referenced or sampled directly on blood on the leaves.

How could Konee possibly weave these seemingly unrelated tracks together into a cohesive

whole?

And how could they possibly provide a backdrop to the six-minute song's epic saga of a relationship broken by the limelight of

celebrity. Let's dissect and find out.

From Spotify, I'm Cole Kushna and this is Disek, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes.

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