Bolton actually took to the online site Rap Genius and annotated the song. In February 2015, band member Michael Bolton recalled clearing the sample at the time, revealing that he required the artists to send him the lyrics first to see if the content was worthy of his approval - in the end, Bolton believed that: 'the song turned out beautifully' and he's 'totally happy with it'. Within the track, American band Blackjack's 1980 song "Maybe It's the Power of Love" is sampled. The verse being performed by Ivy for this opener is appropriate, since he considers it to be a poem. Ivy performed a poetry style rendition of his verse for the Season 5 opener of Russell Simmons presents HBO Def Poetry in 2006, which was only performed live and never part of any release by the rapper. Despite a music video never being released, part of the song is played during the ending of the second version of three videos for West's 2004 single " Jesus Walks", which comes one position before it on the album's track list. When the album was released, West referenced featuring artist Jay-Z in the booklet's list of 'Thanx' by crediting: 'Jay 4 blowin me up'. On the original track list of The College Dropout, "Never Let Me Down" was number fourteen, instead of number eight as it was on the official release. After penning his verse, Ivy called Coodie and rapped to him over the phone, then he put Ivy on speaker phone to rap his verse again once Coodie went in the other room with people in it and the people in there reacted positively to Ivy's verse - this lead to him rapping it over, over, over and over again to them. At the time, Ivy had feelings of excitement about being on the record, not only because of: 'knowing that was taking off to superstardom at the time', but also because he thought of Jay as: 'one of the greatest of all time'. Ivy on it." and Ivy was initially like: "Stop bullshitting", before Coodie played it for him over the phone from Record Plant in Hollywood, California.
Kanye got this song with him and Jay Z and he wants to put a poet on it. He got a call from Coodie at 11pm on Decemabout being part of the song, in which Coodie said to him: "J, you need to get to L.A. Ivy revealed that he originally knew West from Chicago, but was reintroduced to him in Jersey shortly before they collaborated on the track.
The song has managed to develop a significant legacy over time, despite never being released as a single.
Although an accompanying music video wasn't ever produced for "Never Let Me Down", the audio of it was used in one of West's videos for " Jesus Walks". In 2011, Billboard listed the song as the second greatest collaboration between Kanye and Jay. Critics mostly had praise for it, but tended to view Jay's apperance in a negative light.
Within the song, one verse is included from West and so is one from Ivy, whose verse is a poem, whilst Jay has two verses. It was released as the album's eight track, produced solely by West and samples "Maybe It's the Power of Love" by Blackjack. Ivy, from West's debut studio album The College Dropout (2004). " Never Let Me Down" is a song by American rapper and producer Kanye West, that features Jay-Z and J. Kanye West, Shawn Carter, James Richardson, Michael Bolton, Bruce Kulick
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