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What does Touch the Sky sample?

Curtis Mayfield's Move On Up, slowed down until it became a Kanye hook.

Touch the Sky · Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco

Where it came from

  • Samples Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield, 1970). A pitched-down Move On Up is the whole hook. Source: uDiscover

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