Who sampled · 1990s · beginner crate
Ice Cube’s “It Was A Good Day” (1992) is built on The Isley Brothers’s “Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2” (1977) — a sample that travelled 15 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 Isley Brothers · 1977
The hit that sampled it
Ice Cube · 1992
Cue up “Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2” and listen at 00:05–00:24 — that’s the passage Ice Cube lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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