Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “Poetic Justice” (2012) is built on Janet Jackson’s “Any Time, Any Place” (1993) — a sample that travelled 19 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
Janet Jackson · 1993
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2012
Cue up “Any Time, Any Place” and listen at 00:44–01:01, 01:46–01:55 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted.
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