Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
Ice Cube’s “You Can Do It” (2000) is built on Television's Greatest Hits Band’s “I Dream of Jeannie” (1985) — a sample that travelled 15 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
Television's Greatest Hits Band · 1985
The hit that sampled it
Ice Cube · 2000
Cue up “I Dream of Jeannie” and listen at 00:00–00:05 — that’s the passage Ice Cube lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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