Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
Method Man’s “Bring The Pain” (1994) is built on Jerry Butler’s “I'm Your Mechanical Man” (1974) — a sample that travelled 20 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
Jerry Butler · 1974
The hit that sampled it
Method Man · 1994
Cue up “I'm Your Mechanical Man” and listen at 03:00–03:03 — that’s the passage Method Man lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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