Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate
Tyler, The Creator feat. Doechii’s “Balloon” (2024) is built on Akiko Yano’s “ヨ・ロ・コ・ビ” (1978) — a sample that travelled 46 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
Akiko Yano · 1978
The hit that sampled it
Tyler, The Creator feat. Doechii · 2024
Cue up “ヨ・ロ・コ・ビ” and listen at 01:48–01:56 — that’s the passage Tyler, The Creator feat. Doechii lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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