Who sampled · 2020s · expert crate
Trap Dickey’s “LA Nights” (2026) is built on Weezer’s “Island In The Sun” (2001) — a sample that travelled 25 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
Weezer · 2001
The hit that sampled it
Trap Dickey · 2026
Cue up “Island In The Sun” and listen at 00:00–00:09, 00:35–00:50 — that’s the passage Trap Dickey lifted.
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