Who sampled · 1990s · beginner crate
JAŸ-Z’s “Hard Knock Life” (1998) is built on Andrea McArdle’s “It's the Hard-Knock Life” (1977) — a sample that travelled 21 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
Andrea McArdle · 1977
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z · 1998
Cue up “It's the Hard-Knock Life” and listen at 00:00–00:16 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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