Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
The Black Eyed Peas’s “The Time (Dirty Bit)” (2010) is built on Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes’s “(I've Had) The Time Of My Life” (1987) — a sample that travelled 23 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes · 1987
The hit that sampled it
The Black Eyed Peas · 2010
Cue up “(I've Had) The Time Of My Life” and listen at 00:02–00:29 — that’s the passage The Black Eyed Peas lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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