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2006 single by Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco

"Touch on the Sky"
Cover art displaying a hand touching the sky
Single past Kanye West featuring Lupe Fiasco
from the anthology Late Registration
Released January 1, 2006
Recorded
  • The Record Found (Hollywood)
  • Beaker Studios (Hollywood)
Genre Hip hop
Length
  • 3:57 (album version)
  • three:56 (radio edit)
Label
  • Roc-A-Fella
  • Def Jam
Songwriter(southward)
  • Kanye Due west
  • Justin Smith
  • Wasalu Jaco
  • Curtis Mayfield
Producer(s) Just Blaze
Kanye West singles chronology
"Heard 'Em Say"
(2005) 		"Touch on the Sky"
(2006) 		"Impossible"
(2006)
Lupe Fiasco singles chronology
"Touch the Sky"
(2006) 		"Kick Push"
(2006)
Music video
"Touch the Sky" on YouTube

"Impact the Sky" is a song recorded by American hip hop artist Kanye West for his second studio album, Late Registration (2005). The vocal features Lupe Fiasco on his career debut. It was produced by Just Blaze, standing as the album's only rails to non include production from W. The vocal was released in the United Kingdom as a digital EP through Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam on Jan 1, 2006. On Feb xiv, the aforementioned labels serviced the song to U.s.a. mainstream radio stations as the anthology'southward fourth single. The next month, it was released in various countries for digital download by Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam and every bit a CD unmarried through Universal Music, respectively.

Later on Just Blaze played Due west multiple beats, "Touch on the Sky" was the one that he felt virtually passionate about. It is a hip hop track that includes a slowed sample from the Curtis Mayfield song "Motility On Up" (1971). The vocal's lyrics center around West encouraging others to have every bit much confidence in themselves every bit he does. It was met with universal acclaim from music critics, with Lupe Fiasco'south advent gathering praise from the majority of them, though some critics were complimentary towards the production. The accompanying music video was released in February 2006 and directed by Chris Milk. Within it, West portrays the daredevil Evel Kanyevel in homage to Evel Knievel's unsuccessful jump across the Snake River Coulee. Evel Knievel sued Due west over the video in December 2006, though the two ultimately settled the lawsuit in November 2007. The visual received multiple nominations at honor shows.

"Touch the Sky" peaked at number 42 on the Us Billboard Hot 100 in 2006, while reaching the superlative x of the charts in Commonwealth of australia, Scotland and the UK. That same year, the song attained top 20 positions in Republic of finland, Ireland, and New Zealand. Information technology has since been certified platinum in the United States, the UK, and Commonwealth of australia by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), respectively. Westward performed the song alive at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, 2006 Brit Awards and Saturday Dark Live. The Milwaukee Brewers use this song for their home runs.

Background and evolution [edit]

During a July 2014 interview with DJ Skee for SKEE Telly, American rapper Lupe Fiasco revealed that he and W didn't meet through Chicago connections even though they both came from the urban center equally West "was e'er in a different world."[ane] Initially, Lupe Fiasco didn't want to feature on "Touch the Heaven", with him not "feeling the vibe" of the song at the fourth dimension.[2] After being persuaded by his partner telling him "Nah, you lot gotta trust me. You gotta do this," Lupe Fiasco ultimately agreed on the collaboration and stated of working with W that "from there on we kind of clicked up and kept information technology moving upward until this day."[1] The characteristic stands as Lupe Fiasco's career debut.[2] American hip hop producer Only Blaze was asked to produce for West during a phone call with Roc-A-Fella Records, with the phone call leading to him being signed to the label and But Blaze recalled "a lot of corking music" being made.[three] Throughout West'due south production career, comparisons take been made between him and Just Blaze.[4]

A speed alteration method of sampling was showtime present within W's music on his debut unmarried "Through the Wire" (2003) and this sampling method was used in West's music throughout his career.[five] Just Blaze had been listening to American vocalizer-songwriter Curtis Mayfield at the time of sampling his piece of work.[vi] The vocal was one of the tracks that helped West achieve mainstream success in the The states.[7] When guest-hosting the radio station Beats i in December 2015, Simply Blaze shared a number of previously unheard records from Roc-A-Fella musicians. An alternative take on "Bear on the Sky" with American vocalizer Robert Glasper featured was among the records played by him.[8]

Composition and recording [edit]

Smith performing in 2014

The record product of the track was done by But Blaze.

Musically, "Touch the Sky" is a hip hop vocal.[ix] A slowed sample is included of Mayfield's 1971 recording "Move On Upwardly" within the song, every bit written by him, alongside Latin horns.[5] [10] [11] Lyrically, the song sees West give encouragement and inspiration to people for them to have a high level of self-confidence like him.[12] A cursory history of brilliant clothes in New York rap is provided past Due west, dating back to when he first signed to Roc-A-Fella years before the vocal's release.[13] W insists with certain lyrics that even though he tried to right his wrongs, they helped him with songwriting.[11] Lupe Fiasco performs the tertiary poesy, in which he uses a number of double entendres and metaphors.[xiv]

Just Bonfire solely handled the vocal'due south production, making it the simply track on Late Registration to not be produced past West and besides the only runway from the album that the former worked on.[10] He tried the Mayfield sample later on cipher was really clicking in the studio and it was the beat that West felt passionate about when he played West multiple beats.[6] When asked on Twitter about the story behind "Touch on the Sky" in May 2016, Simply Blaze revealed that he completed the production twenty minutes before W arrived at Baseline Studios.[15] While "Touch the Sky" was produced past Just Blaze, the track was written by W, Lupe Fiasco and Justin Smith. It was recorded past Anthony Kilhoffer and Andrew Dawson at The Tape Establish (Hollywood, CA) and Chalice Recording Studios (Hollywood, CA), respectively. The rails was mixed by Mike Dean at Beaker Recording Studios, with banana engineering from Richard Reitz, Matt Light-green, Nate Connelly and Mike Mo. Vlado Meller mastered the rail.[10]

Release and reception [edit]

"Bear on the Sky" was released on Baronial 30, 2005, as the third runway on Westward'southward second studio album Late Registration.[16] On January 1, 2006, a digital EP was released in the United Kingdom for the song through West's labels Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam, which contains three tracks.[17] The vocal was subsequently sent to mainstream radio stations in the United states of america by Due west's labels on February ii equally the album's fourth unmarried.[18] On March 7, it was released for digital download in numerous countries through Roc-A-Fella and Def Jam, with a radio edit and the instrumental included.[19] A CD single was afterwards released past Universal Music for the vocal on April 24, 2006, with the single consisting of 3 tracks.[20]

The track received universal acclaim from music critics, who generally praised Lupe Fiasco'southward feature. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian pointed out the rails as where Westward "wittily acknowledges the familiarity of the "Move on Upwardly" (1971) sample by humming distractedly along."[21] Sean Fennessey of Pitchfork called Lupe Fiasco an "impressive newcomer" and described Just Blaze's production on the runway as "life-affirming."[22] The lyrics "I'thou trying to right my wrongs/ Merely it's funny, the aforementioned wrongs assistance me write the songs" were branded past Chris DeVille of Stereogum equally "one of a handful of lines that could work as a thesis statement for Kanye West's career."[23] DeVille elaborated: "He's as inflammatory and conflicted as e'er here, and it lends Tardily Registration the same feeling of rawness and spontaneity that inspired Kanye's annotate about George Bush-league."[23] Keertana Sastry of Bustle ranked the track as the fourth best from the anthology and wrote of it: "Now this is the kind of monster hit track that I can get behind, and the track also gave us the genius that is Lupe Fiasco."[24] David Browne of Amusement Weekly called the track where West "throws his diploma-free success in our faces, marveling at his good fortune" and claimed for it to exist "powered by" the sample of "Move on Up", while also writing of West'south performance that he "can even so be funny, as when he sings a snippet of 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'."[25] In reference to the track'southward position on Late Registration, Spence D. of IGN claimed: "The groove gets a slight bump, thanks to horns and a more than energetic opinion from Due west on 'Touch on The Heaven.'"[26] He described Lupe Fiasco as "who offers up call-and-response chanting in an echo bedroom manner before he drops a buttery verse toward the end of the rail."[26] Luke McManus of RTÉ cited the musical style of the song as being "sample-based and archetype," claiming for the Mayfield sample to exist in reference to "the golden age of 1970s soul."[27]

Accolades [edit]

Live Nearly ranked the song at number 18 on their top 50 list of the best hip hop songs in 2005.[28] On Pitchfork 's list of the 200 best songs from the 2000s, "Touch the Heaven" was listed at number 157 and the staff described the vocal as "Kanye at his humblest: Detailing his struggles and failures before exploding into that glorious chorus, outsourcing the beat [from producer] Just Blaze because nobody could've flipped that Curtis Mayfield sample harder."[29] NME placed information technology at number 18 on their list of W's 25 best songs, with Larry Bartleet of the publication calling the sample "the beaming basis for this melody."[30] Lupe Fiasco's verse was ranked at number 50 on a listing published by Complex of the 50 all-time invitee verses of all time.[14]

Music video [edit]

Groundwork and synopsis [edit]

West financed the music video for "Touch the Sky" himself after he did not like the first version Def Jam paid for.[31] Just Blaze commented on this in an interview:

"I retrieve him pulling me to the side when we were on the 'Touch The Sky' video set and being like, 'Yo, I spent my last dime to re-motion picture this video.' Def Jam paid for a 'Touch The Heaven' video that nobody has ever seen. He came dorsum after the fact and specked out this whole flick deal that we know with the cannon and the Evel Knievel thing and whatever. And I want to say that was something similar 700, 800 chiliad dollars."[32]

Prior to directing the muscic video, Chris Milk had directed for Westward in 2004 on the video for his single "All Falls Down".[33] American rock band Autumn Out Male child were originally supposed to star in it every bit reporters, though the band didn't announced due to being in Europe at the time of filming.[34] The product cost for the video was approximately $1 meg, which is the 25th nearly expensive music video of all time.[35] The visual was debuted on MTV in February 2006, and filmed every bit a '70s mode brusk picture show about daredevil Evel Kanyevel, played by West, and his failed attempt to wing a rocket across the Grand Canyon.[36] [37] It was done in homage to Evel Knievel's unsuccessful jump across the Ophidian River Canyon in 1974 and West uses the music video to make fun of his huge ego.[36] [37] W likewise pokes fun at his anti-Bush outburst from 2005 and the possibility of his career arc ending with a crash-and-burn.[37] The video features a cameo from Canadian-American extra Pamela Anderson, who opposes the daredevil graphic symbol that Due west portrays.[38] American actresses Nia Long and Tracee Ellis Ross besides make appearances in it.[39]

Lawsuit [edit]

In December 2006, Evel Knievel filed a lawsuit confronting West in the U.South. District Courtroom of Tampa, Florida for trademark infringement.[36] Specifically, Knievel's lawsuit cites the carmine, white and blue costume worn by Due west in the music video as beingness a re-create of the jumpsuit that the stuntman wore on a September 1974 Sports Illustrated cover when preparing for his Snake River Canyon jump, with him including a copy of the comprehend as an exhibit to the complaint.[36] Evel Knievel also took issue with the persona put on by Due west. West's attorneys argued that the music video amounted to satire and therefore was covered under the First Subpoena. Just days earlier his death in November 2007, Evel Knievel amicably settled the suit later being paid a visit from Westward, saying, "I thought he was a wonderful guy and quite a gentleman," and stated that him and West "settled the lawsuit amicably." Still, the 2 of them made an agreement to not publicly discuss the terms of their dispute.[40]

Reception [edit]

Sydney Scott of Essence pointed out the cameos within the music video as what "definitely made for an interesting video."[39] W reacted negatively to the video not receiving any nominations at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, maxim during an interview, "It didn't get whatever nominations, only it's ane of the most memorable videos of the year for me."[41] However, at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, the music video was nominated for Best Video.[42] After not winning the latter honour, West thought he should have won because the visual "cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in information technology. I was jumping across canyons."[41] The video earned a nomination for All-time International Video - Artist at the 2006 MuchMusic Video Awards.[43] It was nominated for All-time Cinematography and Best Styling at the 2007 Music Video Product Awards.[44] At the same ceremony, the music video was awarded Best Hip-Hop Video.[45] Complex named information technology the fourth best music video of the 2000s decade.[46]

Commercial performance [edit]

North America [edit]

Though non released as a unmarried initially, "Touch the Sky" reached number 72 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for the outcome dated Nov 5, 2005.[47] After its single release, the song entered the U.s.a. Billboard Hot 100 at number 90 for the issue engagement of February 25, 2006.[48] On March 4, it climbed xx places to number 70 on the nautical chart.[49] The song experienced a similar jump the next week, ascent eighteen places to number 52.[l] After two weeks, the song so entered the top 50 of the Hot 100 on March xviii at number 47.[51] The next week, it peaked at number 42 on the chart, attaining like performance to West'south single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" that reached number 43 on the Hot 100 in 2005.[52] [53] "Touch the Heaven" remained on the chart for a total of 9 weeks.[52] On the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the song reached its peak of number 23 on March 11.[54] That aforementioned calendar week, the song attained its highest position on a Billboard chart by reaching number ten on the US Hot Rap Songs chart.[55] The song peaked at number 35 on the Usa Billboard Mainstream Pinnacle forty for the issue of March 25, 2006.[56] On September 23, 2020, "Touch on the Sky" was certified platinum past the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shelving 1,000,000 certified units in the U.s.a..[57]

Europe and Oceania [edit]

The song had its best operation in the UK, peaking at number vi on the U.k. Singles Chart, giving West his fifth top ten unmarried in the country.[58] It remained on the chart for a total of 15 weeks.[58] On the yr-end listing of the all-time selling tracks in the UK for 2006, the song ranked at number 93.[59] It was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling 600,000 sales-equivalent units on February 26, 2021.[lx] In Scotland, the song performed similarly, reaching number seven on the Scottish Singles Nautical chart.[61] It peaked at number fourteen on the Irish Singles Chart, giving West his quaternary superlative 20 single on the chart.[62] Similarly, the song peaked at number 15 on the Finnish Singles Nautical chart.[63] "Affect the Heaven" experienced less commercial success in the Russia and Federal republic of germany charts, peaking at number 62 and 97, respectively.[64] [65]

"Touch the Sky" was successful in Commonwealth of australia, peaking at number x on the ARIA Singles Chart;[66] it stood as West'southward 2d top ten unmarried in the country, following on from "Gold Digger" reaching number 1 in 2005.[66] In 2015, the song was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for exceeding lxx,000 shipped copies.[67] On the NZ Singles Chart, the vocal reached number xvi and stayed on the chart for seven weeks.[68] Westward had previously reached the same position in 2003 with "Through the Wire", which also remained on the NZ Singles Chart for seven weeks.[68]

Alive performances [edit]

Kanye West performing at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada on November 9, 2005, during the Touch the Sky Tour.

Westward performed the song live during the Touch the Sky Tour in 2005.

West's first televised live performance of "Affect the Sky" occurred at the premiere of flavor 31 of Saturday Dark Live, with West transitioning from a melody of "Gilt Digger" into a performance of the vocal.[69] On October 11, 2005, W performed it alive as the opener to the kickoff show of the Touch the Sky Tour at the University of Miami's Convocation Middle.[70] During the performance, West wore a light-colored shirt and pants, a suit jacket and sunglasses with white frames.[70] West requested the crowd to shout lyrics of the song and they followed through with his request.[70] On September 29, 2005, a performance of the song was delivered by West at Abbey Road Studios in London for his 2006 live album Belatedly Orchestration.[71] [72] It was performed past West at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto as the opener again to a concert of the Touch The Heaven Tour on November nine, 2005.[73] Westward performed a medley of "Touch the Heaven", "Stronger" (2007), "Good Life" (2007) and other singles at the Be the Alter Youth Ball for the first inauguration of Barack Obama as Us president on January 20, 2009.[74] While performing, Kanye told the oversupply: "Permit's make some racket for our new president, Obama. It feels so good to exist continuing here," while also noting that his mother Donda West would be proud to see him performing for the president.[74] In February 2009, Kanye West delivered a rendition of the track for his 2010 live album VH1 Storytellers.[75] The performance began in a musically stripped down way, with merely the bass and drums being present alongside W's vocals.[75] When the track reached its climax, Westward revealed his "greatest hurting in life."[75] Towards the stop of his operation, West showed self-awareness by admitting to having been "an asshole for and so long."[75]

On June seven, 2010, W performed the track alive at Chicago'south Farragut Career Academy during a concert for schoolhouse children; this concert marked West's first live advent since his incident with Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAS.[76] It was performed by West equally part of his headlining gear up at the 2011 Coachella Festival.[77] For his headlining live bear witness at the Festival Mawazine: Rhythms of the World in Rabat on May 22, West delivered a performance of the track.[78] At a concert in Atlanta's Philips Arena on October 28, 2011, during Westward and Jay-Z'southward Lookout man the Throne Tour, West came out to perform "Touch the Sky" after a wardrobe change.[79] During the operation, he wore a tribal-blazon jacket, leather kilt, leather pants underneath and his glow-in-the-dark Air Yeezys, and Rob Markman of MTV called the outfit worn by Jay-Z at the concert "no match" for West's.[79] When performing at Austin X'due south Music festival on June 8, 2014, Westward omitted Jay-Z's proper name from the vocal'south lyrics, which he also did when performing "Blood on the Leaves" (2013) and "Cold" (2012) at the festival.[80] Westward stopped the opening of the song when performing it live at the 2015 Glastonbury Festival, walking off subsequently stating "that'southward not what we rehearsed in the dressing room."[81] For his performance of the song, West entered a scarlet picker that elevated to 30m in the air and floated over the crowd, who sung along with him.[v] W performed the song live at the Air Canada Center in Toronto during the Saint Pablo Tour on August 30, 2016.[82] As part of the same tour, information technology was the 26th vocal to exist performed by W during his 4th concert on the tour at The Forum in Inglewood, California on November 1 of that twelvemonth and West got "rowdy" during the operation.[83]

Other versions [edit]

A embrace version of "Bear upon the Sky" was played by eight-piece American brass ensemble The Soul Rebels that included horns and was released on their mixtape Power = Power in 2013.[84] [85] American hip hop group The LOX, which consists of Sheek Louch, Styles P and Jadakiss, freestyled over the vocal in 2005 with a feature from Ace Hood.[86] Urban Noize released a remix in April 2012 that includes vocals from English musician Florence Welch alongside their interpretation of West and Lupe Fiasco's vocals.[87]

Track listings [edit]

Digital download [19]

  1. "Touch the Sky" (feat. Lupe Fiasco) [Radio Edit] – iii:56
  2. "Bear upon the Heaven" (feat. Lupe Fiasco) [Instrumental] – iii:57

US CD unmarried [20]

  1. "Touch the Sky" (Album Version)
  2. "Jesus Walks" (Album Version)
  3. "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" (AOL Sessions)
  4. "Heard 'Em Say" (Michel Goundry/ Video)
  5. "Touch the Sky" (MTV Version/ Closed Captioned/ Video)

UK Digital EP [17]

  1. "Touch the Sky" – 3:57
  2. "Jesus Walks" – 3:14
  3. "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" (Sessions@AOL) – 4:12

Credits and personnel [edit]

Information taken from Late Registration liner notes.[x]

Recording

  • Recorded at The Record Plant (Hollywood, CA) and Chalice Recording Studios (Hollywood, CA)
  • Mixed at Chalice Recording Studios (Hollywood, CA).

Personnel

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

See besides [edit]

  • List of elevation x singles in 2006 (Australia)
  • List of UK acme-ten singles in 2006

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External links [edit]

  • "Touch the Sky" Lyrics at MTV (archived from 2009)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_the_Sky_(Kanye_West_song)

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