Who sampled · 2010s · expert crate
JAŸ-Z feat. Gloria Carter’s “Smile” (2017) is built on Stevie Wonder’s “Love's In Need Of Love Today” (1976) — a sample that travelled 41 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
Stevie Wonder · 1976
The hit that sampled it
JAŸ-Z feat. Gloria Carter · 2017
Cue up “Love's In Need Of Love Today” and listen at 01:39–02:00 — that’s the passage JAŸ-Z feat. Gloria Carter lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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