Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
Brandy feat. Kanye West’s “Talk About Our Love” (2004) is built on Mandrill’s “Gilly Hines” (1978) — a sample that travelled 26 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
Mandrill · 1978
The hit that sampled it
Brandy feat. Kanye West · 2004
Cue up “Gilly Hines” and listen at 01:00–01:16 — that’s the passage Brandy feat. Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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