Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
Common feat. The Last Poets’s “The Corner” (2005) is built on The Temptations’s “What It Is?” (1972) — a sample that travelled 33 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
The Temptations · 1972
The hit that sampled it
Common feat. The Last Poets · 2005
Cue up “What It Is?” and listen at 01:12–01:30 — that’s the passage Common feat. The Last Poets lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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