Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Puff Daddy & Mase’s “Mo Money Mo Problems” (1997) is built on Diana Ross’s “I'm Coming Out” (1980) — a sample that travelled 17 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 intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
Diana Ross · 1980
The hit that sampled it
The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Puff Daddy & Mase · 1997
Cue up “I'm Coming Out” and listen at 00:00–00:30 — that’s the passage The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Puff Daddy & Mase lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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