Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
JAŸ-Z, Kanye West’s “Otis ft. Otis Redding” (2011) is built on Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” (1966) — a sample that travelled 45 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
Otis Redding · 1966
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z, Kanye West · 2011
Cue up “Try a Little Tenderness” and listen at 01:58–02:27, 03:25–03:28 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z, Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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