Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
Madlib’s “Slim's Return” (2003) is built on Gene Harris & The Three Sounds’s “Book Of Slim” (1968) — a sample that travelled 35 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
Gene Harris & The Three Sounds · 1968
The hit that sampled it
Madlib · 2003
Cue up “Book Of Slim” and listen at 00:00–00:22 — that’s the passage Madlib lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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