Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate
J. Cole’s “WHO TF IZ U” (2026) is built on The Whispers’s “Can't Help But Love You” (1972) — a sample that travelled 54 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 Whispers · 1972
The hit that sampled it
J. Cole · 2026
Cue up “Can't Help But Love You” and listen at 00:00–00:10 — that’s the passage J. Cole lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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