Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “Rigamortus” (2011) is built on Willie Jones III’s “The Thorn” (2010) — a sample that travelled 1 year 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
Willie Jones III · 2010
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2011
Cue up “The Thorn” and listen at 00:13–00:20 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted.
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