<Li> Gil Scott - Heron </Li> <Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Kanye West </Li> <Li> Jeff Bhasker </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Kanye West </Li> <Li> Jeff Bhasker </Li> </Ul> <P> "Who Will Survive in America" is the final track of the standard edition of American rapper Kanye West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . The piece, featuring no vocals from West himself, serves as the album's coda and is built on a sample of Gil Scott - Heron's "Comment No. 1", a blunt, surrealist piece delivered by Scott - Heron in spoken word about the African - American experience and the faded idealism of the American dream . Scott - Heron's poem, which criticized the 1960s Revolutionary Youth Movement for failing to recognize the more basic needs of the African - American community, is edited to a reduced version on the track that, according to music writer Greg Kot, "retains its essence, that of an African - American male who feels cut off from his country and culture". By contrast, Sean Fennessey interprets it as "a too - serious denouement for an album that is more about the self's little nightmares than some aching societal rejection". West had previously sampled Scott - Heron on "My Way Home", a track from his 2005 album Late Registration . </P>

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