Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
JAŸ-Z’s “Can I Live” (1996) is built on Isaac Hayes’s “The Look Of Love” (1970) — a sample that travelled 26 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
Isaac Hayes · 1970
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z · 1996
Cue up “The Look Of Love” and listen at 00:06–00:20 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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