This is a quick musical journey that I just took today that I'm hoping you'll play along with!

I just came across this unbelievable artist, Natalie Prass, an artist from Nashville with a couple albums under her belt who was once in Jenny Lewis' touring band. So I listened to her track, "Any Time, Any Place:" (which used to be on her Soundcloud but was likely taken down for copyright reasons, so I found a live version)

I'm first taken by its relaxed pace. Then Prass begins to sing. That melody. I've heard that before. But from where? I think and think and think. I listen to it again. Pause. Think. Listen again. That melody is on Drake's last album! So I'm scrounging through all the tracks when I remember, wait, it's on Kendrick Lamar's last album! I immediately cue up "Poetic Justice:"

Can you hear the same melody? I then chuckle when Drake starts rapping (half credit?). But then I'm intrigued as to whom is singing the melody on Lamar's track. Sure enough, it's a sample from a Janet Jackson song entitled, you guessed it, "Any time, Any Place:"

So Prass did a cover of Janet Jackson's original which Kendrick Lamar sampled (and I'm guessing the title "Poetic Justice" is a sly shout-out to Janet since she was in a movie - with Tupac - with the same title.) What a beautiful circle of music. Thanks Janet!