Original sentence: "I Thought About Killing You" is spoken and rapped by West, with its lyrical content being centered around thoughts of killing himself and another unidentified person.He eventually updated the song on November 7, 2018 with the unlicensed sample removed.The original version of the song contains an uncredited sample from "Fr3sh", as performed by Kareem Lotfy.West at first sampled "Fr3sh" by Kareem Lofty for a beat switch in the song without licensing the sample.While not released as a single, the song charted at number twenty-eight on the US Billboard Hot 100
Edited sentence: A cappella voices intone "I know, I know" throughout.It is the longest song on the album.Suicidal thoughts of West's were spoke about by him in a June 2018 interview with The New York Times.The clean version had a line about slavery added to it on June 7.The song charted in the United States, Slovakia, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, France, Czech Republic, Canada and Australia in 2018.The song is spoken and rapped by West, with its lyrical content being centered around thoughts of killing himself and someone else, whose identify is not specified by him.The video of the album's listening party in Jackson Hole features it being played alongside "Ghost Town".Though West does not specify the identity of who he thought about killing that wasn't him, Genius suggested that West may be referencing Jay-Z in the song.West originally sampled "Fr3sh" by Kareem Lofty for a beat switch in the song without licensing the sample and eventually updated it on November 7, 2018 with the unlicensed sample removed