Just Hit Songs on Instagram: "Kanye West’s “Stronger” (2007) famously samples Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” — but getting that sample cleared wasn’t easy. Kanye had been obsessed with Daft Punk’s sound for years and wanted to fuse their robotic house energy with his own brand of hip-hop. He reached out to the French duo’s team for permission, and while Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) were initially skeptical, they eventually agreed — impressed by how