Who sampled · 2000s · beginner crate
The Game feat. 50 Cent’s “Hate It Or Love It” (2005) is built on The Trammps’s “Rubber Band” (1972) — a sample that travelled 33 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
The Trammps · 1972
The hit that sampled it
The Game feat. 50 Cent · 2005
Cue up “Rubber Band” and listen at 02:03–02:21 — that’s the passage The Game feat. 50 Cent lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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