The Heartbreak Samples, Pt. 1: Robocop

[Nov21]

808s & Heartbreak, Samples

This is the first of a series in which we'll post a song sampled on Kanye's new album "808s & Heartbreak".

Robocop contains samples from "Estella's Theme", a song from the score of the 1998 movie Great Expectations.

"The film is a modern re-telling of the classic Charles Dickens tale 'Great Expectations'" writes kanYeLive.com member dayobliss, "Estella is a woman incapable of loving a man. Her mother raised her to be a cold person who cannot feel or return another's passion, and is destined to crush any man's dreams. I thought this was fairly pertinent in the overall context of 808s & Heartbreak, and especially the song itself."

Bonus: Kanye used the same sample in an unreleased track in 2003.


  • noelle

    Greater Expectations lol. MAD TV

  • noelle

    me tooooooooo, i love spelling well i did in 4th

  • syfaa

    WHATS THAT SONG AT THE END CALLED

  • asian

    i miss the raps...

  • jerome

    oh shit...i remember that guy...thats kanye west.

  • Jazzo101

    The song @ the end is called THE WAY THAT YOU DO (Carl Thomas feat. kanye)

  • Tara

    he did the EVERYTHING I AM rap in the middle...well something similar...
    ...and I'm back to tear it up
    haters, start your engines
    I hear 'em gearin' up
    *People talk so much shit about me at barbershops
    they forget to get their haircut
    OK fair enough, the streets is flarin' up....
    'cause they want gun talk, or I don't wear enough
    =]

  • toph

    he is actually sampling the track "kissing in the rain" from the score..

  • Simon

    the song Ye sings is We can't tell

  • fashionablelives

    This was dope, I wish we had those songs.

  • charlie

    lol hello titty

  • phresh aka delando

    i read that book great expectations..but i remember it that the guy estella was with raised her to be dumb and not to love another guy but him her father gave her to this guy when she was little....but anyway koooooooolll myspace.com/bboyphresh [an admissions guy from the art institute of technology told me if i wanna be a fashion designer i gotta puch my name so add me]

  • Robot

    See i thought Ye actually sampled the theme from robocop.....But really if u listen to the theme from robocop, i had downloaded it, and at 4:05 it breaks down to this little melody that sounds alot like that estella music. I sampled it, just seeing if i could remake a Robocop beat, it actually came out pretty dope.

  • jan13

    yooooo
    i found that shizzz on the robocop sample
    thats a tripp...i was the first to thread it
    damn..ur welcome

  • Vic

    I think Kanye's next album is gonna be more upbeat...

  • iTsRoOm808MrWeSt

    Where is Carl Thomas? Summer Rain That's my JAM!

  • Kudzi

    Unfortunately the original might be from Great Expectations, BUT THE SAMPLE KANYE HAS USED IS BY PATRICK DOYLE KISSING IN THE RAIN

  • dayobliss

    Estella is a woman incapable of loving a man. Her mother raised her to be a cold person who cannot feel or return another’s passion, and is destined to crush any man’s dreams. I thought this was fairly pertinent in the overall context of 808s & Heartbreak, and especially the song itself

  • KiidRada2hott

    yoo was tha NAME OF tha song that kanye is rapping to in the bottom video 2:54 tell me plz

  • goothu

    2 words?

  • crocifixia

    Does anyone kno wat sample he used for See You in My NIghtmares? also is there like a contact us for this page im DYING to kno if im rite....estellas theme was amazing i knew i knew the sound and i couldnt place it....im thinkin that he sampled the alan parsons project "cask of amontillado" for nightmares i need confirmation how do i aproach the admin of this site?????

  • chopstix

    OH SHIT is the a Supreme hoody!?!?!!? HYPE!!!

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