--- title: Kylie Jenner Makes Musical Debut With Mr. Rogers Rap Song description: Kylie Jenner made her musical debut Thursday on a new rap track titled "Beautiful Day" with an artist who goes by Burberry Perry. canonical: https://time.com/4320023/kyle-jenner-rap-song-kids-music/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-05T21:27:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:11.143Z og:title: 5 Tracks That Sampled Kids' Songs Better Than Kylie Jenner's Rap Debut og:description: From Doug E Fresh's "The Show" to Jay Z's "Hard Knock Life" og:url: https://time.com/4320023/kyle-jenner-rap-song-kids-music/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 5 Tracks That Sampled Kids' Songs Better Than Kylie Jenner's Rap Debut twitter:description: From Doug E Fresh's "The Show" to Jay Z's "Hard Knock Life" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Tracks That Sampled Kids' Songs Better Than Kylie Jenner's Rap Debut > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 5, 2016 9:27 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 5, 2016 9:27 PM UTC Although [Kylie Jenner](http://time.com/4087040/kylie-jenner-interview/?iid=sr-link1) has gone on record [telling us that she had no plans to start a music career](https://twitter.com/KylieJenner/status/610448873253801986?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw), she made her musical debut Thursday on a new rap track titled “Beautiful Day” alongside an artist who goes by the moniker Burberry Perry. The track is a riff on (and heavily samples) the [_Mr. Rogers_ theme song](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/08/watch-auto-tuned-mister-rogers-sings-beautifully/?iid=sr-link5), and also features Jenner’s friend, Jordyn Woods, plus actual IRL musicians and fellow Jenner cohorts, Justine Skye and Lil Yachty. Jenner’s brief part is exactly what you think it would be — imagine the Calabasas-vocal fry of the reality TV celebutante singing the _Mr. Rogers_ theme song, then autotune it to a degree that [would make even T-Pain blush](http://time.com/3547338/t-pain-auto-tune-video/?iid=sr-link1). (Although if you’re looking to listen to just Kylie’s part, you can fast-forward to the 2:40 mark.) However, Jenner’s meh vocals on an even more meh song are not the real tragedy here — that is, the complete waste of the _Mr. Rogers_ theme song sample. Children’s media is chock-full of golden opportunities to be featured in rap and this unlikely intersection has given us some of hip-hop’s most beloved tracks. Here are five songs that did it right. ### Chance the Rapper’s “Wonderful Everyday: Arthur ft. The Social Experiment” Chance’s dreamy take on the Ziggy Marley-penned [_Arthur_](http://time.com/3071036/listen-to-chance-the-rappers-gorgeous-cover-of-the-arthur-theme-song/?iid=sr-link1) theme features Wyclef Jean and Jesse Ware in a soothing, trippy experience that’s less after-school on PBS and more after-hours. ### Jay Z’s “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” Hov riffed on the beloved “It’s the Hard-Knock Life” number from the musical _Annie_ to illustrate his own upbringing in his 1998 hit, “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem).” ### Doug E Fresh’s and the Get Fresh Crew’s “The Show” Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick trade rhymes while sampling the [_Inspector Gadget_ theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1-YPLp3KqA). Go, go, Gadget never sounded so smooth. ### E-40’s Flamboastin’ Beloved Bay Area rapper and [hyphy enthusiast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djs%5Ft8MSvfw) E-40 used the theme song from [_The Addams Family_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6QzbvH-ZNo)with a heavily synthesized beat as the base for his signature fast flow on “Flamboastin,” which featured Birdman. ### The Lazytown remix ft. Lil Jon While the slightly irreverent _Lazytown_ remix featuring Lil’ Jon isn’t an official track, it probably should be. 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