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Who sampled · 2010s · expert crate

Hood Politics samples All for Myself

Kendrick Lamar’s “Hood Politics” (2015) is built on Sufjan Stevens’s “All for Myself” (2010) — a sample that travelled 5 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

All for Myself

Sufjan Stevens · 2010

plays 00:00–00:23 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

Hood Politics

Kendrick Lamar · 2015

plays 00:30–01:00 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “All for Myself” and listen at 00:00–00:23 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted.

Liner notes

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