Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
A$AP Rocky feat. Joe Fox & Kanye West’s “Jukebox Joints” (2015) is built on Smokey Robinson’s “Much Better Off” (1968) — a sample that travelled 47 years to get there. In SAMPLE SAMPLE SAMPLE we spin the original and ask you to name the hit that flipped it. This one lives in the intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
Smokey Robinson · 1968
The hit that sampled it
A$AP Rocky feat. Joe Fox & Kanye West · 2015
Cue up “Much Better Off” and listen at 00:03–00:56 — that’s the passage A$AP Rocky feat. Joe Fox & Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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