Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.” (1993) is built on The Jazz Crusaders’s “A Message From The Inner City” (1972) — a sample that travelled 21 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
The Jazz Crusaders · 1972
The hit that sampled it
Queen Latifah · 1993
Cue up “A Message From The Inner City” and listen at 06:06–06:20 — that’s the passage Queen Latifah lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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