Who sampled · old school · expert crate
Run D.M.C.’s “Beats to the Rhyme” (1987) is built on Bob James’s “Nautilus” (1974) — a sample that travelled 13 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
Bob James · 1974
The hit that sampled it
Run D.M.C. · 1987
Cue up “Nautilus” and listen at 03:33–03:37 — that’s the passage Run D.M.C. lifted. Old-school source, old school flip.
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