Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
Kanye West’s “Late” (2005) is built on The Whatnauts’s “I'll Erase Away Your Pain” (1970) — a sample that travelled 35 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 Whatnauts · 1970
The hit that sampled it
Kanye West · 2005
Cue up “I'll Erase Away Your Pain” and listen at 00:00–00:35 — that’s the passage Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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