Who sampled · 2000s · intermediate crate
Alicia Keys’s “You Don't Know My Name” (2003) is built on The Main Ingredient’s “Let Me Prove My Love To You” (1975) — a sample that travelled 28 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
The Main Ingredient · 1975
The hit that sampled it
Alicia Keys · 2003
Cue up “Let Me Prove My Love To You” and listen at 01:58–02:07 — that’s the passage Alicia Keys lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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