Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
Ginuwine’s “So Anxious” (1999) is built on Michael Franks’s “Mr. Blue” (1975) — a sample that travelled 24 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
Michael Franks · 1975
The hit that sampled it
Ginuwine · 1999
Cue up “Mr. Blue” and listen at 00:00–00:17 — that’s the passage Ginuwine lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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