Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
Kanye West & Jay-Z feat. Curtis Mayfield’s “The Joy” (2010) is built on Curtis Mayfield’s “The Makings of You (Live at The Bitter End, NYC)” (1971) — a sample that travelled 39 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
Curtis Mayfield · 1971
The hit that sampled it
Kanye West & Jay-Z feat. Curtis Mayfield · 2010
Cue up “The Makings of You (Live at The Bitter End, NYC)” and listen at 00:21–00:57 — that’s the passage Kanye West & Jay-Z feat. Curtis Mayfield lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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