Who sampled · 2020s · beginner crate
Bad Bunny’s “NUEVAYoL” (2025) is built on El Gran Combo’s “Un Verano en Nueva York” (1975) — 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 beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
El Gran Combo · 1975
The hit that sampled it
Bad Bunny · 2025
Cue up “Un Verano en Nueva York” and listen at 00:00–00:40 — that’s the passage Bad Bunny lifted. Old-school source, 2020s flip.
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