Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” (1997) is built on Ann Peebles’s “I Can't Stand the Rain” (1973) — 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
Ann Peebles · 1973
The hit that sampled it
Missy Elliott · 1997
Cue up “I Can't Stand the Rain” and listen at 00:00–00:12 — that’s the passage Missy Elliott lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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