On Sight

"On Sight" was first heard when West performed it live at the Governors Ball Music Festival on June 9, 2013, nine days before the album's release.

[2] At the listening party for Yeezus on June 10, West said in a brief speech after playback that he worked with Daft Punk on three or four of the songs, but "Black Skinhead" was the only one the public knew at the time that they had been involved with and the duo are among the album's major producers.

[9]The song contains a studio recreation of "Sermon (He'll Give Us What We Really Need)", written by Keith Carter Sr. and performed by Holy Name of Mary Choral Family, sung by a choir.

Helen Brown of The Telegraph viewed the song as being where "West slams the breaks on an industrial-electro grind for a sudden, gloriously demented burst of the Holy Name of Mary Choral Family".

[15] The Guardian critic Alexis Petridis wrote that "a screaming, distorted acid line runs through the opening 'On Sight'" and in reference to Daft Punk, viewed it as "the kind of music some people doubtless wish they'd made instead of Random Access Memories".

[16] The New York Times's Jon Pareles wrote in response to the song: "The music hurls Mr. West's rhymes like a catapult, an effect compounded by his vehement delivery.

[19] In the week that Yeezus was released, the track reached number ten on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 and dropped out of the chart permanently afterwards.

[1] In response to the performance, Tom Breihan of Stereogum described the song as what "sounded like Kanye's version of late-'80s industrial dance music".

[1] When performing the song live at Seattle's KeyArena on The Yeezus Tour in October 2013, West played the choir sample repeatedly.