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{{Infobox song |
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| name = Gossip Files |
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| artist = ] |
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| album = Freshmen Adjustment |
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| released = March 21, 2005 |
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| recorded = 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dummymag.com/lists/digging-deep-kanye-west-sharp-edge|title=Digging deep: Kanye's sharp edge|work=] | access-date=September 1, 2018}}</ref> |
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| genre = ]<!--This genre is obvious, do not edit without a source--> |
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| length = {{Duration|m=3|s=52}} |
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| label = ] |
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| writer = ] |
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| producer = West |
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"'''Gossip Files'''" is a song by American rapper and producer ] from his mixtape, ''Freshmen Adjustment'' (2005).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/freshmen-adjustment-mw0001057491|title=Freshmen Adjustment – Kanye West|work=] | accessdate=September 1, 2018}}</ref> |
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== Composition == |
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Throughout the track, multiple elements of 1977 ] song "Me and You" are sampled.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whosampled.com/sample/254374/Kanye-West-Gossip-Files-Belle-Epoque-Me-and-You/|title=Kanye West's 'Gossip Files' sample of Belle Epoque's 'Me and You'|work=] | accessdate=September 1, 2018}}</ref> |
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The song also samples vocals from ]'s 1995 track "Shimmy Shimmy Ya".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whosampled.com/sample/189408/Kanye-West-Gossip-Files-Ol%27-Dirty-Bastard-Shimmy-Shimmy-Ya/|title=Kanye West's 'Gossip Files' sample of Ol' Dirty Bastard's 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya'|work=] | accessdate=September 1, 2018}}</ref> |
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== Reused lyrics == |
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The lyrics: "I'm finna get on this TV and put s**t down/I ain't finna let these light skinned ni**as come back in style" from "Gossip Files" were reused as: "I'mma get on this TV, mama/I'mma, I'mma put s**t down" in West's 2004 song "]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genius.com/Kanye-west-gossip-files-lyrics|title=Kanye West – Gossip Files Lyrics|work=] | accessdate=September 3, 2018}}</ref> As well as this, the lyrics "‘Cause we the leaders, and they the followers/And we the nut busters, and they the swallowers" were reused in his 2013 song "]" as: "You see it's leaders and it's followers/But I'd rather be a d**k than a swallower".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/64depm/kanye-west-used-to-be-in-a-group-called-the-go-getters-and-he-re-used-their-lyrics|title=Kanye West Recycles Lyrics From Old Material|work=] | accessdate=September 3, 2018}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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== External links == |
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* {{MetroLyrics song|kanye-west|gossip-files}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider --> |
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