Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
Busta Rhymes’s “Turn Me Up Some” (2002) is built on Tonto's Expanding Head Band’s “Tama” (1971) — a sample that travelled 31 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
Tonto's Expanding Head Band · 1971
The hit that sampled it
Busta Rhymes · 2002
Cue up “Tama” and listen at 03:16–03:30 — that’s the passage Busta Rhymes lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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