Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
Kanye West’s “Blood On The Leaves” (2013) is built on Nina Simone’s “Strange Fruit” (1965) — a sample that travelled 48 years to get there. In SAMPLE SAMPLE SAMPLE we spin the original and ask you to name the hit that flipped it. This one lives in the intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
Nina Simone · 1965
The hit that sampled it
Kanye West · 2013
Cue up “Strange Fruit” and listen at 00:13–00:20, 00:44–00:53 — that’s the passage Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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