Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
Kanye West’s “Hey Mama” (2005) is built on Donal Leace’s “Today Won't Come Again” (1972) — a sample that travelled 33 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
Donal Leace · 1972
The hit that sampled it
Kanye West · 2005
Cue up “Today Won't Come Again” and listen at 00:09–00:20 — that’s the passage Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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