Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx’s “Gold Digger” (2005) is built on Ray Charles’s “I Got a Woman” (1954) — a sample that travelled 51 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
Ray Charles · 1954
The hit that sampled it
Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx · 2005
Cue up “I Got a Woman” and listen at 00:00–00:20 — that’s the passage Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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