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Who sampled · 2000s · beginner crate

Touch The Sky samples Move on Up

Kanye West’s “Touch The Sky” (2005) is built on Curtis Mayfield’s “Move on Up” (1970) — a sample that travelled 35 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

Move on Up

Curtis Mayfield · 1970

plays 00:00–00:14 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

Touch The Sky

Kanye West · 2005

plays 00:00–00:30 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “Move on Up” and listen at 00:00–00:14 — that’s the passage Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.

Liner notes

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