Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
JAŸ-Z’s “Where I'm From” (1997) is built on Yvonne Fair’s “Let Your Hair Down” (1975) — a sample that travelled 22 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
Yvonne Fair · 1975
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z · 1997
Cue up “Let Your Hair Down” and listen at 00:54–00:58 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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