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Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate

So Far to Go samples Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love), Pts. 1 & 2

J Dilla feat. Common & D'Angelo’s “So Far to Go” (2006) is built on The Isley Brothers’s “Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love), Pts. 1 & 2” (1980) — 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 expert crate, worth 3 points in party mode.

The original record

Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love), Pts. 1 & 2

The Isley Brothers · 1980

plays 00:39–00:46 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

So Far to Go

J Dilla feat. Common & D'Angelo · 2006

plays 00:00–00:30 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love), Pts. 1 & 2” and listen at 00:39–00:46 — that’s the passage J Dilla feat. Common & D'Angelo lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.

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