Who sampled · 2010s · expert crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “YAH.” (2017) is built on Billy Paul’s “How Good Is Your Game” (1976) — 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
Billy Paul · 1976
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2017
Cue up “How Good Is Your Game” and listen at 00:00–00:15 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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