Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
The Black Eyed Peas’s “Imma Be” (2009) is built on The Budos Band’s “Ride or Die” (2007) — a sample that travelled 2 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
The Budos Band · 2007
The hit that sampled it
The Black Eyed Peas · 2009
Cue up “Ride or Die” and listen at 00:01–00:03 — that’s the passage The Black Eyed Peas lifted.
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