Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
Bow Wow feat. Omarion’s “Let Me Hold You Down” (2005) is built on Luther Vandross’s “If Only for One Night” (1985) — a sample that travelled 20 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
Luther Vandross · 1985
The hit that sampled it
Bow Wow feat. Omarion · 2005
Cue up “If Only for One Night” and listen at 00:00–00:30 — that’s the passage Bow Wow feat. Omarion lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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