Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate

Put Ya Hands Where My Eyes Could See samples Sweet Green Fields

Busta Rhymes’s “Put Ya Hands Where My Eyes Could See” (1997) is built on Seals & Crofts’s “Sweet Green Fields” (1977) — a sample that travelled 20 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

Sweet Green Fields

Seals & Crofts · 1977

plays 00:17–00:24 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

Put Ya Hands Where My Eyes Could See

Busta Rhymes · 1997

plays 00:00–00:25 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “Sweet Green Fields” and listen at 00:17–00:24 — that’s the passage Busta Rhymes lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.

Liner notes

Each verse of this Busta track ends with a special line dedicated to the memory of Notorious B.I.G., who had passed away just a few months prior to the release.

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Put Ya Hands Where My Eyes Could See samples Sweet Green Fields

Sweet Green Fields

Put Ya Hands Where My Eyes Could See

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