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Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate

Mask Off samples Prison Song

Future’s “Mask Off” (2017) is built on Carlton Williams’s “Prison Song” (1974) — a sample that travelled 43 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

Prison Song

Carlton Williams · 1974

plays 00:00–00:06 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

Mask Off

Future · 2017

plays 00:00–00:35 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “Prison Song” and listen at 00:00–00:06 — that’s the passage Future lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.

Liner notes

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