Welcome to the 2010s. The Obama years, the years of our come-upance. Think the big three: Kendrick Lamar, Drake, J. Cole. Think viral hits and dance trends, the rise of soundcloud rappers, emo-rap and sensitive bois. There will be ad-libs, airhorns and type beats. Good Luck!
A breakdown of the difficulties is below (descriptions for each difficulty are failry loose, I wouldn’t necessarily rely on them to try and guess any specific sample, they’re more fluid and in place just to make things more organized):
| Difficulty | Description | Full Value |
| Easy | Very famous songs and generally unchanged samples from original song, generally instantly recognizable | 1 point each (0.5 pts each for artist and song title) |
| Medium | Very famous songs with less recognizable samples or slightly less famous songs with unchanged samples | 2 points each (1 pts each for artist and song title) |
| Hard | Generally less famous songs with distorted and/or chopped up samples, sample may be hidden within original song | 3 points each (1.5 pts each for artist and song title) |
| Extreme | Less famous songs with heavily changed samples, sample may be hidden within original song | 5 points each (2 pts each for artist and song title) |
| Impossible | Song is either not well known or sample is quick and discrete, not meant to be successful | 20 points (10 pts each for artist and song title) |
Easy (1 pt each!)
Dust A Sound Boy – Super Beagle (1986)
Hint – Artist & Year
Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T, 2 Chainz – 2012
Answer
Mercy – Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T, 2 Chainz (2012)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Vocals (0:00-0:20)
Cherry – Chromatics (2013)
Hint – Artist & Year
Schoolboy Q – 2014
Answer
Man Of The Year – Schoolboy Q (2014)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Synths and Strings (starting at 0:00)
Why Can’t We Live Together – Timmy Thomas (1972)
Hint – Artist & Year
Drake – 2015
Answer
Hotline Bling – Drake (2015)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Drums (starting at 0:00)
Piano/Organ (starting at 0:12)
4 Year old Natalie Praying – Sheisnatalie
Hint – Artist & Year
Kanye West – 2016
Answer
Ultralight Beam – Kanye West (2016)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Lyrics (throughout)
I’d Rather Be with You – Bootsy Collins (1976)
Hint – Artist & Year
Childish Gambino – 2016
Answer
Redbone – Childish Gambino (2016)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Hook/Riff (0:03-0:25)
Landslide – Oh Wonder (2015)
Hint – Artist & Year
Lil Uzi Vert – 2017
Answer
The Way Life Goes – Lil Uzi Vert (2017)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Rhythm and Vocals (throughout)
Changes – Mala (2007)
Hint – Artist & Year
XXXTENTACION – 2017
Answer
Look At Me! – XXXTENTACION (2017)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Vocals (throughout)
Hint – Lyric
Fuck on me, look at me, ay
I Love You – East of Underground (1971)
Hint – Artist & Year
21 Savage – 2018
Answer
a lot – 21 Savage (2018)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Vocals (starting at 0:05)
Shape Of My Heart – Sting (1993)
Hint – Artist & Year
Juice WRLD – 2018
Answer
Lucid Dreams – Juice WRLD (2018)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Guitar & Rhythm (starting from 0:00)
34 Ghosts IV – Nine Inch Nails (2008)
Hint – Artist & Year
Lil Nas X – 2019
Answer
Old Town Road – Lil Nas X (2019)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Guitar (starting at 0:00-1:13)
Medium (2 pts each!!)
The Basement – Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (1992)
Hint – Artist & Year
Kanye West – 2010
Answer
Runaway – Kanye West (2010)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Drums (0:00-0:10)
Hint – Lyric
Let’s have a toast for the douchebags
Let’s have a toast for the assholes
Let’s have a toast for the scumbags
Every one of them that I know
No More “I Love You’s” – Annie Lenox (1995)
Hint – Artist & Year
Nicki Minaj – 2010
Answer
Your Love – Nicki Minaj (2010)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Vocals (0:05-0:30)
Hint – Lyric
He the type to pop tags and be cockin’ the brim
Might breeze through The Ave, might stop at the gym
And he keep a do-rag, keep the wave on swim
W-w-waves on swim so they hate on him
I’ll Take Care of You – Jamie XX (2011)
Hint – Artist & Year
Drake, Rihanna – 2011
Answer
Take Care – Drake, Rihanna (2011)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Everything (throughout)
Hint – Lyric
I’ll be there for you, I will care for you
I keep thinkin’ you just don’t know
Try to run from that, say you’re done with that
On your face, girl, it just don’t show
The Knight Hawk – Jet Age of Tomorrow (2010)
Hint – Artist & Year
Kendrick Lamar – 2011
Answer
A.D.H.D. – Kendrick Lamar (2011)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Everything (throughout)
Hint – Lyric
8 doobies to the face, fuck that
12 bottles in the case, n***a, fuck that
2 pills and a half-weight, n***a, fuck that
Got a high tolerance when your age don’t exist
Paulette – Balla Et Ses Balladins (1980)
Hint – Artist & Year
J. Cole – 2011
Answer
Can’t Get Enough – J. Cole (2011)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Rhythm (throughout)
Horns and Vocals (starting at 0:05-0:25)
Everything (2:40-2:50)
Hint – Lyric
Now I ain’t got no kids yet, but this right here’s for practice
I hate to get the seats in the Benz wet, but that’s how good yo’ ass is
Any Time, Any Place – Janet Jackson (1993)
Hint – Artist & Year
Kendrick Lamar, Drake – 2012
Answer
Poetic Justice – Kendrick Lamar, Drake (2012)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Rhythm & Drums (starting at 0:13)
Vocals (0:45-1:13, 1:43-2:09)
Hint – Lyric
Every second, every minute, man, I swear that she can get it
Say if you a bad bitch, put your hands up high
Hands up high, hands up high
Tell ’em dim the lights down right now, put me in the mood
I’m talkin’ about dark room, perfume, go, go
Mariya – The Family Circle (1973)
Hint – Artist & Year
J. Cole – 2014
Answer
Wet Dreamz – J. Cole (2014)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Rhythm, Drums & Strings (starting at 0:00-0:13)
Vocals (0:07-0:13)
Hint – Lyric
Wadn’t nuttin’ like that
Man, it wadn’t nuttin’ like that
First time, she was in my math class (Uh-huh)
Long hair, brown skin with the fat ass
Prison Song – Carlton Williams (1978)
Hint – Artist & Year
Future – 2017
Answer
Mask Off – Future (2017)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Rhythm & Flute (0:00-0:06)
Hint – Lyric
Percocets (Yah), molly, Percocets (Percocets)
Percocets (Yah), molly, Percocets (Percocets)
Ex-Factor – Ms. Lauryn Hill (1998)
Hint – Artist & Year
Drake – 2018
Answer
Nice for What – Drake (2018)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Vocals (3:24)
Hint – Lyric
Gotta hit the club, gotta make that ass jump
Gotta hit the club like you hit them mothafuckin’ angles
Let me Blow Ya Mind – Eve, Gwen Stefani (2001)
Hint – Artist & Year
Central Cee – 2019
Answer
Doja – Central Cee (2019)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Hook & Riff (throughout)
Hint – Lyric
How can I be homophobic? My bitch is gay
Hard (3 pts each!!!)
Fear – One Republic (2009)
Hint – Artist & Year
Nicki Minaj – 2010
Answer
Roman’s Revenge – Nicki Minaj (2010)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Strings (0:00-0:05)
Hint – Lyric
I am not Jasmine, I am Aladdin
So far ahead, these bums is laggin’
See me in that new thing, bums is gaggin’
I’m startin’ to feel like a dungeon dragon
Yo Soy Cubano – The Chakachas (1970)
Hint – Artist & Year
Kendrick Lamar – 2012
Answer
Backseat Freestyle – Kendrick Lamar (2012)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Vocals (1:15-1:17)
Hint – Lyric
All my life I want money and power
Respect my mind or die from lead shower
I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower
So, I can fuck the world for 72 hours
Chains And Things – B.B. King (1970)
Hint – Artist & Year
Kendrick Lamar – 2012
Answer
m.A.A.d city – Kendrick Lamar (2012)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Guitar & Strings (3:38-3:50)
Hint – Lyric
If Pirus and Crips all got along
They’d probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seem like the whole city go against me
Every time I’m in the street I hear
“Yawk! Yawk! Yawk! Yawk!”
Clean up Woman – Betty Wright (1972)
Hint – Artist & Year
Chance the Rapper, Childish Gambino – 2013
Answer
Favorite Song – Chance the Rapper, Childish Gambino (2013)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Hook/Riff (0:00-0:10)
Hint – Lyric
Chance, acid rapper, soccer, hacky sacker
Cocky khaki jacket jacker
Slap-happy f****t slapper, bah-bah
Iraqi rocket launcher
Shake that Laffy Taffy, jolly raunchy rapper
The Big Country – Bernard Gerard (2001)
Hint – Artist & Year
Young Money, Drake – 2014
Answer
Trophies – Young Money, Drake (2014)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Horns (0:00-0:08)
Hint – Lyric
Had hit records on my demo
Did y’all boys not get the memo
I do not stay at the Intercontinental
And anything I got is not a rental, I own that motherfucker
All I Need – Lee Fields & The Expressions (2014)
Hint – Artist & Year
Travis Scott – 2015
Answer
Antidote – Travis Scott (2015)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Guitar (0:00-0:17)
Hint – Lyric
Don’t you open up that window…
Duke – Romano Mussolini (1979)
Hint – Artist & Year
Isaiah Rashad – 2016
Answer
Tity and Dolla – Isaiah Rashad (2016)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Brass and Whistle (starting at 0:00)
Hint – Lyric
Bitches gon’ be bitches but I love them hoes
Just call before you, just call before you come
Hi De Ho Man – Cab Calloway (1931)
Hint – Artist & Year
Jaden – 2017
Answer
Icon – Jaden (2017)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Horns & Vocals (0:00-0:30)
Hint – Lyric
What you call an icon livin’?
Start a record label, MSFTS just did it (Woo)
Nylon cover, five minutes, whoa
We up too hot in the business (Woo)
El aparecido – Inti-Illimani (1971)
Hint – Artist & Year
Kodak Black – 2017
Answer
Tunnel Vision – Kodak Black (2017)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Flute (starting at 0:00, throughout)
Hint – Lyric
Lil’ Kodak, they don’t like to see you winnin’
They wanna see you in the penitentiary
What Will Santa Claus Say? – Louis Prima, Joe “Wingy” Manone (1936)
Hint – Artist & Year
Kanye West, Kid Cudi – 2018
Answer
Cudi Montage – Kanye West, Kid Cudi (2018)
Hint – Sample Location & Type
Vocals (1:11-1:21)
Hint – Lyric
Lil’ Kodak, they don’t like to see you winnin’
They wanna see you in the penitentiary
EXTREME (5 pts each!!!!!)
I Don’t Want to Play Around – Ace Spectrum (1974)
Answer
Fancy – Drake (2010)
Busy Morning – Roger Roger (1966)
Answer
Shabba – ASAP Ferg (2013)
24K Magic – Bruno Mars (2016)
Answer
Loyalty – Kendrick Lamar (2017)
Feeling Tall – Crown Heights Affair (1975)
Answer
Vossi Bop – Stormzy (2019)
Love Sex Magic – Ciara (2009)
Answer
The Box – Roddy Ricch (2019)
Impossible (The Ultimate Test. One Sample. One Song. Can you get it!? 20pts up for grabs)
Come Home For Christmas – The Platters (1963)
Answer
Excuse Me – ASAP Rocky (2015)
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