Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools (Drank)” (2012) is built on Chrome’s “Distance” (2002) — a sample that travelled 10 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
Chrome · 2002
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2012
Cue up “Distance” and listen at 00:07–00:15 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted.
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