Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
50 Cent’s “Best Friend” (2005) is built on Valerie Simpson’s “Silly Wasn't I” (1972) — a sample that travelled 33 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 intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
Valerie Simpson · 1972
The hit that sampled it
50 Cent · 2005
Cue up “Silly Wasn't I” and listen at 01:11–01:27 — that’s the passage 50 Cent lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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