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Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate

gloria samples Amarga Tristeza

Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA’s “gloria” (2024) is built on Combo Impacto’s “Amarga Tristeza” (1974) — a sample that travelled 50 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

Amarga Tristeza

Combo Impacto · 1974

plays 00:16–00:24 · open on YouTube

The hit that sampled it

gloria

Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA · 2024

plays 00:05–00:35 · open on YouTube

Where to hear it

Cue up “Amarga Tristeza” and listen at 00:16–00:24 — that’s the passage Kendrick Lamar feat. SZA lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.

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