Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
J Dilla’s “Don't Cry” (2005) is built on The Escorts’s “I Can't Stand (To See You Cry)” (1974) — 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.
The original record
The Escorts · 1974
The hit that sampled it
J Dilla · 2005
Cue up “I Can't Stand (To See You Cry)” and listen at 00:03–00:30 — that’s the passage J Dilla lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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