Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
Beyoncé ft. JAŸ-Z’s “Upgrade U” (2006) is built on Betty Wright’s “Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do” (1968) — a sample that travelled 38 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
Betty Wright · 1968
The hit that sampled it
Beyoncé ft. JAŸ-Z · 2006
Cue up “Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do” and listen at 00:00–00:08 — that’s the passage Beyoncé ft. JAŸ-Z lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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