Who sampled · 1990s · beginner crate
MC Hammer’s “U Can't Touch This” (1990) is built on Rick James’s “Super Freak” (1981) — a sample that travelled 9 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
Rick James · 1981
The hit that sampled it
MC Hammer · 1990
Cue up “Super Freak” and listen at 00:00–00:25 — that’s the passage MC Hammer lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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