Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Everyday Struggle” (1994) is built on Dave Gates’s “Either Way” (1980) — a sample that travelled 14 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 intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
Dave Gates · 1980
The hit that sampled it
The Notorious B.I.G. · 1994
Cue up “Either Way” and listen at 00:26–00:40 — that’s the passage The Notorious B.I.G. lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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