Who sampled · 1990s · beginner crate
Ice Cube feat. Das EFX’s “Check Yo Self (The Message Remix)” (1993) is built on Grandmaster Flash feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee’s “The Message” (1982) — 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
Grandmaster Flash feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee · 1982
The hit that sampled it
Ice Cube feat. Das EFX · 1993
Cue up “The Message” and listen at 00:01–00:30 — that’s the passage Ice Cube feat. Das EFX lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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