Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
De La Soul’s “Stakes Is High” (1996) is built on Ahmad Jamal’s “Swahililand” (1974) — a sample that travelled 22 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
Ahmad Jamal · 1974
The hit that sampled it
De La Soul · 1996
Cue up “Swahililand” and listen at 08:07–08:12 — that’s the passage De La Soul lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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