Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
J Dilla’s “Two Can Win” (2006) is built on The Sylvers’s “Only One Can Win” (1972) — a sample that travelled 34 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 Sylvers · 1972
The hit that sampled it
J Dilla · 2006
Cue up “Only One Can Win” and listen at 02:10–02:39 — that’s the passage J Dilla lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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