Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
Lil' Kim’s “Queen Bitch” (1996) is built on Roberta Flack’s “Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye” (1969) — a sample that travelled 27 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
Roberta Flack · 1969
The hit that sampled it
Lil' Kim · 1996
Cue up “Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye” and listen at 01:51–01:54 — that’s the passage Lil' Kim lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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