Who sampled · 2010s · expert crate
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib feat. Earl Sweatshirt & Domo Genesis’s “Robes” (2014) is built on Lenny White’s “Sweet Dreamer” (1977) — a sample that travelled 37 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
Lenny White · 1977
The hit that sampled it
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib feat. Earl Sweatshirt & Domo Genesis · 2014
Cue up “Sweet Dreamer” and listen at 03:48–04:04 — that’s the passage Freddie Gibbs & Madlib feat. Earl Sweatshirt & Domo Genesis lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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