Black On Black Murder

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S1 has said that "Murder To Excellence" was originally two separate songs, that were later merged: "Swizz Beatz did the first half and the name of that song was actually, "Black on Black Murder." And then the second half that I did was actually called, "Black Excellence"...in the studio wilding out, listening to it and jumping around, and then [Kanye] was like, "Yo what if we merge these two together?" So the engineer did it in the session and I remember us playing it and that transition happened the way it immediately went into the other song and we were just going crazy in the studio, like this is it. So they merged the titles, "Let's just call it "Murder to Excellence." The transition was so powerful because it flowed so smooth and it sounded, with the samples that Swizz and I chose they were very familiar, but different, so it just blended so well". Swizz Beatz also Tweeted in September 2010, "Wait until you hear the @kanyewest joint on my album crazyyy it's called Black on Black Murder!".