Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
JID’s “Workin Out” (2018) is built on Helen Merrill’s “Don't Explain” (1955) — a sample that travelled 63 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
Helen Merrill · 1955
The hit that sampled it
JID · 2018
Cue up “Don't Explain” and listen at 00:00–00:22 — that’s the passage JID lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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