Who sampled · 2020s · intermediate crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “squabble up” (2024) is built on Debbie Deb’s “When I Hear Music” (1983) — a sample that travelled 41 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
Debbie Deb · 1983
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2024
Cue up “When I Hear Music” and listen at 02:46–03:10 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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