Listen: Nas and Damian Marley Sample Amadou & Mariam's "Sabali"

Here's one for the Six Degrees of Damon Albarn game. A new track from Nas and Damian Marley called "Patience" heavily samples Malian duo Amadou & Mariam's song "Sabali"... which was produced and co-written by none other than Mr. Albarn. The track was posted on Nas and Marley's Twitter, as the the Fader's blog points out. The song has Nas thinking big-picture: "Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Koran?/ And was it a lightning storm/ That gave birth to the earth/ And then dinosaurs were born?" If ...

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