The Most Mysterious Sample In Hip Hop

Released in 2013, Yung Lean's Ginseng Strip 2002 has become one of the most notable songs in hip hop. From blowing up on YouTube in 2013, to becoming the biggest song on tik tok in 2022, this song has gained attention from millions of people. But, there is something interesting about this song. The sample.

Where did the Gineseng Strip 2002 sample come from? Who sang the loop? What is the translation? Who solved the mystery? How long did people search for? All these questions will be answered in this video.

0:00 Ginseng Strip 2002 Background
1:18 The Sample
2:00 LEVEL 1: Laptop Chick
3:12 LEVEL 2: Loop 61
8:40 LEVEL 3: Heart of Asia
17:12 LEVEL 4: MLV
26:40 English Translation
27:56 Why this loop is important
29:46 Internet Reaction To Finding the Loop
31:24 Julian_Caesar Message

Get behind the scenes footage, or just chat with me and my community!

[justaguyonyt]

I just love how this feels like watching a true crime documentary but is a doc about a yung lean sample instead, props

[julianceasar_]

Production quality is top-notch, glad to be apart of it 🖤

[KISHANMURTHY]

Hi guys . Thr singer's name is Dr.Bhagya Murthy from Singapore. And yes I'm her son.

[SpectrasonicsVIDEO]

Hi guys! Eric Persing here from Spectrasonics, the original developer/producer of the Heart of Asia sample library (and Omnisphere!) Fun video…but unfortunately incorrect in its final conclusion!

To put the mystery to bed once and for all, the correct singer of those Heart of Asia samples is Dr. Bhagya Murthy…recorded at Schtung Music studios, Singapore in 1993 😊

Looks like a lot of folks (especially Dublab) owe us a bunch of royalties eh? 😂

[MsBobrrr]

my best friend is from India, Kerala, he doesn't even know anything about yung lean and he heard this song for the first time in his life and he recognized the sample hahah

[EZZYLAND]

"INDSNSKRT" is short for "india sanskrit", one of the oldest languages.. carnatic music is usually in sanskrit, kannada, tamil or other south indian languages

[bigmiraclewhips]

samples come and go brah, but you know i stay

[RedHeadedAchilles]

that fact that he keeps saying INDSNSKRT before each number every time is driving me nuts. cool shit tho

[renosance]

The fact that a song _written in the _*_1500s_* (or earlier) could last, and resound across CENTURIES of time, distortion, and cultural shifts... to find its way into a foreign land, where no one even understands the language, and be shifted/manipulated by technology, and still turn out beautiful, and STILL move people (even in new ways) is God-like in and of itself.

It's transcendent.

[arjajs]

i’m crying they could’ve just talked to a desi person

[blast_processing]

SOS / Sound On Sound magazine interviewed Eric Persing, the founder of Spectrasonics, in the July 2000 issue, and they asked him about the Heart Of Asia sample CD in a section about vocal recordings:

" _Where_ _do_ _you_ _find_ _these_ _great_ _ethnic_ _singers?_ "

" _Believe_ _it_ _or_ _not, _ _sometimes_ _we_ _just_ _ask_ _people_ _if_ _they_ _can_ _sing._ _On_ _a_ _road_ _in_ _Nepal, _ _we_ _passed_ _a_ _old_ _peasant_ _man_ _carrying_ _a_ _huge_ _load_ _on_ _a_ _cart._ _We_ _introduced_ _ourselves_ _and_ _asked_ _him_ _if_ _he_ _could_ _sing_ _something_ _for_ _us._ _He_ _sets_ _down_ _his_ _load, _ _we_ _press_ _record_ _on_ _the_ _portable_ _DAT_ _and_ _what_ _comes_ _out_ _of_ _mouth_ _is_ _one_ _of_ _the_ _most_ _powerful_ _and_ _passionate_ _voices_ _I've_ _ever_ _heard!_ _He_ _finishes_ _his_ _song, _ _packs_ _up_ _his_ _load_ _and_ _goes_ _on_ _his_ _merry_ _way!_ "

[Jellemyah]

the singer is Dr.Bhagya Murthy
found a youtube video its the same exact voice '' Sree Gandha - Dasara Padagalu - Dr.Bhagya Murthy ''
- UPDATE : Spectrasonics official channel just replied to my comment and they confirmed it is in fact Dr baghya Murthy

[JeDxZZZ]

Yung Lean up in the club for some morphine

[IDontTalkToCops]

This breakdown is next level. Incredible job

[rvh]

You whats the funniest. People that bought that sample pack probably thought “oh lol this is the sample from yumg leans’ ginseng strip 2002 for probably 10 years and didnt know so many people were searching for it

[stabaholic]

That sample definitely deserves a 30 min vid about it

[Lil-Britches]

It's funny I'm watching this whole video for an artist I don't even listen to and a song that I've never once heard. I just love deep diving into samples.

[Jthe]

One of the best videos in youtube history fr

[gouthamhegde]

The fact that you went down the rabbit hole to uncover the entire mystery to connect all the dots, Im impressed.

It is of course a composition of purandara dasa’s keerthanas.

I am a fan of yung lean, and its crazy how one of the keerthanas i grew up listening to has taken a different form to come back in my life.

Cheers to you for uncovering this.

[nakadebandhu]

hi I'm an Indian music producer, the omnisphere samples are short for: Indian Sanskrit NO... and sample no 31 says NAARAAYAN(One of the indian trinity hindu god). I guess they wrongly labeled the sample as sanskrit as it is kannada