Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
DANGER DOOM feat. Talib Kweli’s “Old School” (2005) is built on Keith Mansfield’s “Funky Fanfare” (1968) — a sample that travelled 37 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
Keith Mansfield · 1968
The hit that sampled it
DANGER DOOM feat. Talib Kweli · 2005
Cue up “Funky Fanfare” and listen at 00:00–00:15 — that’s the passage DANGER DOOM feat. Talib Kweli lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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