Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
Busta Rhymes’s “Gimme Some More” (1998) is built on Bernard Herrmann and London Philharmonic Orchestra’s “Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra)” (1969) — a sample that travelled 29 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
Bernard Herrmann and London Philharmonic Orchestra · 1969
The hit that sampled it
Busta Rhymes · 1998
Cue up “Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra)” and listen at 00:33–00:40 — that’s the passage Busta Rhymes lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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