Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
Notorious B.I.G’s “Warning” (1994) is built on Isaac Hayes’s “Walk On By” (1969) — a sample that travelled 25 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
Isaac Hayes · 1969
The hit that sampled it
Notorious B.I.G · 1994
Cue up “Walk On By” and listen at 00:56–01:10 — that’s the passage Notorious B.I.G lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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