Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
Kanye West feat. T-Pain’s “Good Life” (2007) is built on Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)” (1982) — a sample that travelled 25 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
Michael Jackson · 1982
The hit that sampled it
Kanye West feat. T-Pain · 2007
Cue up “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)” and listen at 03:15–03:22 — that’s the passage Kanye West feat. T-Pain lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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