Sample Breakdown

Amazing Shape

Drake · 2026

Where did Amazing Shape's vocal come from?

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The breakdown

"Sim Simma" was Beenie Man's breakthrough crossover record in 1997. Drake interpolated its vocal for MAID OF HONOUR twenty-nine years later.

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