Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
Cypress Hill’s “Real Estate” (1991) is built on The Bar-Kays’s “Humpin'” (1961) — a sample that travelled 30 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 Bar-Kays · 1961
The hit that sampled it
Cypress Hill · 1991
Cue up “Humpin'” and listen at 00:30–00:34 — that’s the passage Cypress Hill lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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