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David Foster's 1992 power ballad from The Bodyguard soundtrack, written by Foster and Linda Thompson, and one of Whitney Houston's defining vocal performances — a climactic high-C belt across a sweeping orchestral arrangement. For 'Tuscan Leather' (2013), Boi-1da pitched up and chopped a fragment of Whitney's climactic vocal and detonated it as the third-act beat-switch in the song's nine-minute structure. The flip arrives without warning after two minutes of menacing 808s, transforming the track from a flex into something almost reverential. It's one of the most discussed beat switches in Drake's catalog and set the template for the multi-movement album openers that followed on Views and Scorpion.

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