Who sampled · 2010s · expert crate
J. Cole’s “MIDDLE CHILD” (2019) is built on First Choice’s “Wake Up To Me” (1973) — a sample that travelled 46 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
First Choice · 1973
The hit that sampled it
J. Cole · 2019
Cue up “Wake Up To Me” and listen at 00:59–01:03 — that’s the passage J. Cole lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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