Who sampled · 1990s · beginner crate
The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Kick in the Door” (1997) is built on Screaming Jay Hawkins’s “I Put a Spell on You” (1956) — a sample that travelled 41 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
Screaming Jay Hawkins · 1956
The hit that sampled it
The Notorious B.I.G. · 1997
Cue up “I Put a Spell on You” and listen at 00:00–00:09 — that’s the passage The Notorious B.I.G. lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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