Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
Burna Boy’s “Ye” (2017) is built on Fela Kuti and The Afrika 70’s “Sorrow Tears and Blood” (1977) — a sample that travelled 40 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
Fela Kuti and The Afrika 70 · 1977
The hit that sampled it
Burna Boy · 2017
Cue up “Sorrow Tears and Blood” and listen at 02:14–02:28 — that’s the passage Burna Boy lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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