Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist’s “"Lavish Habits"” (2025) is built on Junko Ohashi’s “Sakano Ueno Ie” (1976) — a sample that travelled 49 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
Junko Ohashi · 1976
The hit that sampled it
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist · 2025
Cue up “Sakano Ueno Ie” and listen at 01:22–01:28 — that’s the passage Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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