Who sampled · 2000s · beginner crate
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz feat. Usher & Ludacris’s “Lovers And Friends” (2004) is built on Michael Sterling’s “Lovers and Friends” (1990) — a sample that travelled 14 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
Michael Sterling · 1990
The hit that sampled it
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz feat. Usher & Ludacris · 2004
Cue up “Lovers and Friends” and listen at 00:00–00:23, 04:02–04:24 — that’s the passage Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz feat. Usher & Ludacris lifted.
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