Who sampled · 1990s · beginner crate
Puff Daddy & Faith Evans’s “I'll Be Missing You” (1997) is built on The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” (1983) — 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
The Police · 1983
The hit that sampled it
Puff Daddy & Faith Evans · 1997
Cue up “Every Breath You Take” and listen at 00:00–00:30 — that’s the passage Puff Daddy & Faith Evans lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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