Who sampled · 1990s · beginner crate
Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” (1990) is built on Queen & David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” (1981) — a sample that travelled 9 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
Queen & David Bowie · 1981
The hit that sampled it
Vanilla Ice · 1990
Cue up “Under Pressure” and listen at 00:04–00:35 — that’s the passage Vanilla Ice lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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