Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Who Shot Ya?” (1995) is built on David Porter’s “(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over” (1971) — a sample that travelled 24 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
David Porter · 1971
The hit that sampled it
The Notorious B.I.G. · 1995
Cue up “(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over” and listen at 05:06–05:14 — that’s the passage The Notorious B.I.G. lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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