Who sampled · 2000s · expert crate
The Black Eyed Peas’s “The APL Song” (2003) is built on Asin’s “Balita” (1979) — a sample that travelled 24 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
Asin · 1979
The hit that sampled it
The Black Eyed Peas · 2003
Cue up “Balita” and listen at 00:39–00:45 — that’s the passage The Black Eyed Peas lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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