Who sampled · 2010s · expert crate
Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna’s “LOYALTY” (2017) is built on Bruno Mars’s “24K Magic” (2016) — a sample that travelled 1 year 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
Bruno Mars · 2016
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna · 2017
Cue up “24K Magic” and listen at 00:00–00:20 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar feat. Rihanna lifted.
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