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Who sampled · 2020s · intermediate crate

Count Me Out samples PARADISE

Kendrick Lamar’s “Count Me Out” (2022) is built on NOT THE TWOS’s “PARADISE” (2022). 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

PARADISE

NOT THE TWOS · 2022

plays 00:00–00:25 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

Count Me Out

Kendrick Lamar · 2022

plays 00:00–00:30 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “PARADISE” and listen at 00:00–00:25 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted.

Liner notes

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