Two Words samples drums from The 5th Dimension's 1971 track "The Rainmaker". West references a group he was once in known as the Go Getters with the line: "Go Getters rhyme like, should've been signed twice" and over the years, West has actually recycled multiple rhymes that he first spit when part of the group. Miri Ben-Ari revealed that "Two Words" was the first recording she ever did with West. It was revealed by West that he drove to the Harlem Boys Choir’s summer camp to record them in a barn for the track. West actually had to pay them $10,000 to
Letter of Forty-Two Letter of Forty-Two The Letter of Forty-Two () was an open letter signed by forty-two Russian literati, aimed at Russian society, the president and government, in reaction to the events of September – October 1993. It was published in the newspaper "Izvestia" on 5 October 1993 under the title "Writers demand decisive actions of the government." The letter contains the following seven demands: Communist "Pravda" reacted by publishing a letter by three Soviet dissidents – Andrey Sinyavsky, Vladimir Maximov and Pyotr Abovin-Yegides – calling for Boris Yeltsin's immediate resignation. It said among other things: "Nezavisimaya Gazeta"'s 2nd editor-in-chief Victoria Shokhina,