Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate
BigXthaPlug’s “Texas” (2022) is built on Shuggie Otis’s “Sweet Thang” (1971) — a sample that travelled 51 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
Shuggie Otis · 1971
The hit that sampled it
BigXthaPlug · 2022
Cue up “Sweet Thang” and listen at 00:36–00:55 — that’s the passage BigXthaPlug lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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