Who sampled · old school · expert crate
N.W.A.’s “Fuck Tha Police” (1988) is built on Roy Ayers Ubiquity’s “The Boogie Back” (1974) — 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
Roy Ayers Ubiquity · 1974
The hit that sampled it
N.W.A. · 1988
Cue up “The Boogie Back” and listen at 00:12–00:21 — that’s the passage N.W.A. lifted. Old-school source, old school flip.
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