Who sampled · 2020s · beginner crate
Kanye West’s “Dark Fantasy” (2021) is built on Mike Oldfield’s “In High Places” (1983) — a sample that travelled 38 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
Mike Oldfield · 1983
The hit that sampled it
Kanye West · 2021
Cue up “In High Places” and listen at 00:45–00:51 — that’s the passage Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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