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Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate

December 4th samples That's How Long

JAŸ-Z’s “December 4th” (2003) is built on The Chi-Lites’s “That's How Long” (1974) — a sample that travelled 29 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

That's How Long

The Chi-Lites · 1974

plays 00:00–00:44 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

December 4th

JAŸ-Z · 2003

plays 00:00–00:30 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “That's How Long” and listen at 00:00–00:44 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.

Liner notes

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