Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
Digable Planets’s “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” (1992) is built on Art Blakey’s “Stretching” (1978) — a sample that travelled 14 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 intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
Art Blakey · 1978
The hit that sampled it
Digable Planets · 1992
Cue up “Stretching” and listen at 00:00–00:03, 00:22–00:25 — that’s the passage Digable Planets lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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