Who sampled · old school · expert crate
Big Daddy Kane’s “Ain't No Half Steppin'” (1988) is built on The Emotions’s “Blind Alley” (1972) — a sample that travelled 16 years to get there. In SAMPLE SAMPLE SAMPLE we spin the original and ask you to name the hit that flipped it. This one lives in the expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
The Emotions · 1972
The hit that sampled it
Big Daddy Kane · 1988
Cue up “Blind Alley” and listen at 00:00–00:18 — that’s the passage Big Daddy Kane lifted. Old-school source, old school flip.
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