Who sampled · 2010s · expert crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “good kid” (2012) is built on Roy Ayers Ubiquity’s “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby” (1972) — 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
Roy Ayers Ubiquity · 1972
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2012
Cue up “We Live In Brooklyn, Baby” and listen at 00:34–00:40 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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