Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
Drake’s “Hotline Bling” (2015) is built on Timmy Thomas’s “Why Can't We Live Together” (1972) — a sample that travelled 43 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
Timmy Thomas · 1972
The hit that sampled it
Drake · 2015
Cue up “Why Can't We Live Together” and listen at 00:00–00:25 — that’s the passage Drake lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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