Who sampled · 1990s · beginner crate
The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa” (1994) is built on The Isley Brothers’s “Between the Sheets” (1983) — a sample that travelled 11 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
The Isley Brothers · 1983
The hit that sampled it
The Notorious B.I.G. · 1994
Cue up “Between the Sheets” and listen at 00:00–00:25 — that’s the passage The Notorious B.I.G. lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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