Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
Twista feat. Kanye West’s “Overnight Celebrity” (2004) is built on Lenny Williams’s “'Cause I Love You” (1978) — a sample that travelled 26 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 intermediate crate, worth 2 points in party mode.
The original record
Lenny Williams · 1978
The hit that sampled it
Twista feat. Kanye West · 2004
Cue up “'Cause I Love You” and listen at 00:00–00:23, 01:44–02:00 — that’s the passage Twista feat. Kanye West lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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