Who sampled · 2020s · intermediate crate
Busta Rhymes feat. Kendrick Lamar’s “Look Over Your Shoulder” (2020) is built on Jackson 5’s “I'll Be There” (1970) — a sample that travelled 50 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
Jackson 5 · 1970
The hit that sampled it
Busta Rhymes feat. Kendrick Lamar · 2020
Cue up “I'll Be There” and listen at 03:03–03:08 — that’s the passage Busta Rhymes feat. Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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