Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
J. Cole feat. Trey Songz’s “Can't Get Enough” (2011) is built on Balla Et Ses Balladins’s “Paulette” (1980) — 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
Balla Et Ses Balladins · 1980
The hit that sampled it
J. Cole feat. Trey Songz · 2011
Cue up “Paulette” and listen at 00:17–00:25, 02:45–03:00 — that’s the passage J. Cole feat. Trey Songz lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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