Who sampled · 2020s · intermediate crate
Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” (2023) is built on Dionne Warwick’s “Walk On By” (1964) — a sample that travelled 59 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
Dionne Warwick · 1964
The hit that sampled it
Doja Cat · 2023
Cue up “Walk On By” and listen at 00:00–00:30 — that’s the passage Doja Cat lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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