Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
JAŸ-Z feat. Frank Ocean’s “Caught Their Eyes” (2017) is built on Nina Simone’s “Baltimore” (1978) — a sample that travelled 39 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
Nina Simone · 1978
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z feat. Frank Ocean · 2017
Cue up “Baltimore” and listen at 00:00–00:11 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z feat. Frank Ocean lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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