Who sampled · 2020s · intermediate crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “euphoria” (2024) is built on Teddy Pendergrass’s “You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration” (1981) — a sample that travelled 43 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
Teddy Pendergrass · 1981
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2024
Cue up “You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration” and listen at 00:00–00:15 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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