Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
Lil' Kim’s “Big Momma Thang (feat. Jay-Z)” (1996) is built on Sylvester’s “Was It Something That I Said” (1978) — a sample that travelled 18 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
Sylvester · 1978
The hit that sampled it
Lil' Kim · 1996
Cue up “Was It Something That I Said” and listen at 02:31–02:40 — that’s the passage Lil' Kim lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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