Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
Wu-Tang Clan’s “Protect Ya Neck” (1993) is built on The J.B.'s’s “The Grunt” (1970) — 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
The J.B.'s · 1970
The hit that sampled it
Wu-Tang Clan · 1993
Cue up “The Grunt” and listen at 00:00–00:04 — that’s the passage Wu-Tang Clan lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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