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Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate

Chains & Whips samples Take Five (1967)

Clipse feat. Kendrick Lamar’s “Chains & Whips” (2025) is built on Cherry Wainer & Don Storer’s “Take Five (1967)” (1967) — a sample that travelled 58 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.

The original record

Take Five (1967)

Cherry Wainer & Don Storer · 1967

plays 00:31–00:41 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

Chains & Whips

Clipse feat. Kendrick Lamar · 2025

plays 00:19–01:00 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “Take Five (1967)” and listen at 00:31–00:41, 02:07–02:13 — that’s the passage Clipse feat. Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.

Liner notes

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