Kanye previewed his new G.O.O.D. Music single in a breathlessly barked quasi-freestyle a capella at the BET Awards. The song itself has the same vibe of frantic triumphalism: a gospel sample, a bumrush beat and Kanye comparing himself to everyone from Lebron to Biggie to MLK to Rodney King and – in an even more audacious, "is nothing sacred"?! flourish – bragging that his new sneaker line is better than the Air Jordan. He’s more than a New God. He’s a Human Hashtag.

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“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."