Who sampled · 1990s · intermediate crate
JAŸ-Z’s “Dead Presidents II” (1996) is built on Lonnie Liston Smith’s “A Garden Of Peace” (1983) — a sample that travelled 13 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
Lonnie Liston Smith · 1983
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z · 1996
Cue up “A Garden Of Peace” and listen at 02:17–02:40 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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