In 2007, while Kanye West was selling out concerts and performing “Gold Digger” for hundreds of thousands of fans, Justin Vernon (playing under the name Bon Iver) was secluding himself in a cabin in northern Wisconsin to write the heartbreak-filled album For Emma, Forever Ago, which he initially self-released. Three years later, Vernon assisted on “Lost in the World” for Kanye’s album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. “Lost in the World” is a complex track that segues from an Auto-Tuned treatment of Bon Iver’s “Woods” to a multipart-harmony, drum-heavy sing-along to Kanye’s spirited rhyme section to a Gil Scott-Heron sample. Vernon also worked with West on the Jay-ZRick RossNicki Minajguesting song “Monster.”
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