If you haven’t used whosampled.com, it’s a best way to find out which samples of songs, both musically and lyrically. Ie. Did you like Kanye’s Famous? Have you heard Sister Nancy’s version Bam Bam? Or did you know that the Beatles’ Lady Madonna and Richard Pryor were sampled in Sublime’s What I Got?

Anyways, using this amazing database of connections, they now have a game that figures out the degrees of separation between two artists. Try to see if you can get more than 4 degrees.

http://www.whosampled.com/six-degrees/

He starts out playing guitar and the bass drum. Watch it all, because he then he grabs a drumstick and plays the kit behind him while still on the guitar.

You might remember her from being featured on Nora’s (and mine) favorite Chance the Rapper song, Sunday Candy. On the recommendation of some coworkers (and apparently the rest of the internet), I gave a listen to her new mixtape, HEAVN. You can download it via link on her Twitter, @duhmilo, or via her SoundCloud:

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Via Stereogum.