When I first started paying attention to Kanye West, and his name was often misprinted as KAYNE... in 1999 he produced a beat for Madd Rapper, a persona of Bad Boy Entertainment's Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie.



The hook is a rewritten verse of Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step", but the main music is a gigantic looped sample that Kanye has pushed onto pop radio fifteen years later for The Weeknd's "Tell Your Friends".



Here's the 1976 original. I actually have been looking for this record since it was on Madd Rapper's album, but never saw it in the field.

Good catch. Looks like he used the same again much better with Weeknd