Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “meet the grahams” (2024) is built on Timothy Carpenter and Triunity’s “I Want to Make It” (1978) — a sample that travelled 46 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
Timothy Carpenter and Triunity · 1978
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2024
Cue up “I Want to Make It” and listen at 00:00–00:24 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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