Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
2Pac’s “Dear Mama” (1995) is built on Joe Sample’s “In All My Wildest Dreams” (1978) — a sample that travelled 17 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
Joe Sample · 1978
The hit that sampled it
2Pac · 1995
Cue up “In All My Wildest Dreams” and listen at 00:00–00:10 — that’s the passage 2Pac lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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