Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
Usher’s “Superstar” (2004) is built on Willie Hutch’s “Mack's Stroll/The Getaway (Chase Scene) (The Mack/Soundtrack Version)” (1973) — a sample that travelled 31 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
Willie Hutch · 1973
The hit that sampled it
Usher · 2004
Cue up “Mack's Stroll/The Getaway (Chase Scene) (The Mack/Soundtrack Version)” and listen at 00:00–00:09 — that’s the passage Usher lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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