Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
Redman feat. Busta Rhymes’s “Da Goodness” (1998) is built on Buddy Merrill’s “Caravan” (1965) — a sample that travelled 33 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
Buddy Merrill · 1965
The hit that sampled it
Redman feat. Busta Rhymes · 1998
Cue up “Caravan” and listen at 00:00–00:20 — that’s the passage Redman feat. Busta Rhymes lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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