Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
50 Cent feat. Lil' Kim’s “Magic Stick” (2003) is built on Joe Simon’s “It Be's That Way Sometimes” (1975) — a sample that travelled 28 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
Joe Simon · 1975
The hit that sampled it
50 Cent feat. Lil' Kim · 2003
Cue up “It Be's That Way Sometimes” and listen at 02:45–02:47 — that’s the passage 50 Cent feat. Lil' Kim lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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