Who sampled · 2010s · beginner crate
JAŸ-Z’s “4:44” (2017) is built on Hannah Williams & The Affirmations’s “Late Nights & Heartbreak” (2016) — a sample that travelled 1 year 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
Hannah Williams & The Affirmations · 2016
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z · 2017
Cue up “Late Nights & Heartbreak” and listen at 00:01–00:15, 03:24–03:53 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z lifted.
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