Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
Masego’s “Navajo” (2017) is built on The Singers Unlimited’s “Michelle” (1972) — a sample that travelled 45 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
The Singers Unlimited · 1972
The hit that sampled it
Masego · 2017
Cue up “Michelle” and listen at 01:11–01:25, 02:28–02:50 — that’s the passage Masego lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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