Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
OutKast’s “Crumblin' Erb” (1994) is built on Ohio Players’s “Sweet Sticky Thing” (1975) — 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
Ohio Players · 1975
The hit that sampled it
OutKast · 1994
Cue up “Sweet Sticky Thing” and listen at 00:23–00:29 — that’s the passage OutKast lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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