Who sampled · old school · beginner crate
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock’s “It Takes Two” (1988) is built on Lyn Collins’s “Think (About It)” (1971) — a sample that travelled 17 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
Lyn Collins · 1971
The hit that sampled it
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock · 1988
Cue up “Think (About It)” and listen at 01:22–01:33 — that’s the passage Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock lifted. Old-school source, old school flip.
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