Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Old Town Road” (2018) is built on Nine Inch Nails’s “34 Ghosts IV” (2008) — a sample that travelled 10 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
Nine Inch Nails · 2008
The hit that sampled it
Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus · 2018
Cue up “34 Ghosts IV” and listen at 00:07–00:30 — that’s the passage Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus lifted.
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