“I remember Kanye’s manager walking up to me after a DJ-gig in Los Angeles”, tells Rachael Cain, co-founder of Trax Records. “He told me Kanye was interested in a track called ‘Boom Boom’ from our label. I asked him which track it was, as we have two releases on Trax Records called ‘Boom Boom’; one by Dancer and one by myself under the moniker of Screamin’ Rachel. He then told me ‘well, you can go to kanyewest.com to hear it’. To my surprise, the track was already released for two days!”

Because ‘Lift Yourself’ was already out in the open, Trax had a strong position to negotiate part of the ownership of the track. “I can’t lie, that was a great deal for us, because it was already a case of copyright infringement,” Cain continues. “But it was clear to me that the manager was panicked about the entire situation. At that moment, the vocal sample in the track also wasn’t cleared yet. Can you imagine?”