Who sampled · 2010s · intermediate crate
Kendrick Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle” (2012) is built on The Chakachas’s “Yo Soy Cubano” (1970) — a sample that travelled 42 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 Chakachas · 1970
The hit that sampled it
Kendrick Lamar · 2012
Cue up “Yo Soy Cubano” and listen at 01:16–01:19 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar lifted. Old-school source, 2010s flip.
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