The Weeknd Samples Radiohead’s “All I Need” On Unearthed Demo “Airports”

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The Weeknd Samples Radiohead’s “All I Need” On Unearthed Demo “Airports”

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The Weeknd came to prominence in part by sampling underground totems like Beach House and Siouxsie And The Banshees, and he got into a fight with Portishead over his apparent use of their “Machine Gun” drums on his track “Belong In The World.” So it’s intriguing but not surprising that “Airports,” an old Abel Tesfaye demo that surfaced on Reddit, is built around a sample from Radiohead’s In Rainbows stunner “All I Need.” Check it out below.

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