Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate
Lupe Fiasco’s “Samurai” (2024) is built on Grover Washington, Jr.’s “East River Drive” (1981) — a sample that travelled 43 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
Grover Washington, Jr. · 1981
The hit that sampled it
Lupe Fiasco · 2024
Cue up “East River Drive” and listen at 00:13–00:20 — that’s the passage Lupe Fiasco lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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