Who sampled · 2000s · beginner crate
JAŸ-Z feat. Alicia Keys’s “Empire State Of Mind” (2009) is built on The Moments’s “Love On A Two Way Street” (1969) — a sample that travelled 40 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
The Moments · 1969
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z feat. Alicia Keys · 2009
Cue up “Love On A Two Way Street” and listen at 00:00–00:19 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z feat. Alicia Keys lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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