Who sampled · 1990s · expert crate
JAŸ-Z’s “Politics As Usual” (1996) is built on The Stylistics’s “Hurry Up This Way Again” (1980) — a sample that travelled 16 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
The Stylistics · 1980
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z · 1996
Cue up “Hurry Up This Way Again” and listen at 04:18–04:29, 05:06–05:09 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z lifted. Old-school source, 1990s flip.
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