Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
J. Cole’s “4 Your Eyez Only” (2016) is built on You & The Explosion Band’s “To the Oasis” (1985) — a sample that travelled 31 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 intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
You & The Explosion Band · 1985
The hit that sampled it
J. Cole · 2016
Cue up “To the Oasis” and listen at 00:32–00:42 — that’s the passage J. Cole lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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