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I saw Isaac Hayes do it back in the day. I just tried to recreate it.
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The speaker says they watched Isaac Hayes perform something in the past and then tried to reproduce it themselves. “It” refers to the action or style already understood from the surrounding context, so the quote explains an imitation based on direct observation rather than claiming the idea was entirely original.
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