Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “i” (2014) is built on The Isley Brothers’s “That Lady, Pts. 1 & 2” (1973) — a sample that travelled 41 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
The Isley Brothers · 1973
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2014
Cue up “That Lady, Pts. 1 & 2” and listen at 00:00–00:15 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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