Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
LL COOL J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” (1990) is built on Sly & The Family Stone’s “Trip to Your Heart” (1967) — a sample that travelled 23 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
Sly & The Family Stone · 1967
The hit that sampled it
LL COOL J · 1990
Cue up “Trip to Your Heart” and listen at 00:15–00:21 — that’s the passage LL COOL J lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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