Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
Wu-Tang Clan’s “Can It Be All so Simple” (1993) is built on Gladys Knight & The Pips’s “The Way We Were / Try to Remember” (1974) — a sample that travelled 19 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
Gladys Knight & The Pips · 1974
The hit that sampled it
Wu-Tang Clan · 1993
Cue up “The Way We Were / Try to Remember” and listen at 01:09–01:13, 00:00–00:10 — that’s the passage Wu-Tang Clan lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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