Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate
Kendrick Lamar feat. Taylour Paige’s “We Cry Together” (2022) is built on Gary Peacock’s “Valentine” (1980) — a sample that travelled 42 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
Gary Peacock · 1980
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar feat. Taylour Paige · 2022
Cue up “Valentine” and listen at 00:26–00:30 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar feat. Taylour Paige lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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