Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
Kanye West’s “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” (2016) is built on Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir’s “Father I Stretch My Hands” (1976) — a sample that travelled 40 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
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir · 1976
The hit that sampled it
Kanye West · 2016
Cue up “Father I Stretch My Hands” and listen at 03:36–04:18 — that’s the passage Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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