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"Gasolina" — Daddy Yankee

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The 2004 single that carried reggaeton out of Puerto Rico and onto radio worldwide, and one of the recordings named in Steely & Clevie's complaint. Fourteen years after "Dem Bow" and fifteen after "Fish Market," the rhythm underneath it is recognisably the same one.

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Type: Recording / song →
Era: Streaming and the living archive →
Confidence: Well supported
Sources: Billboard; Stereogum, on the recordings named in the Steely & Clevie complaint.

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Daddy Yankee — "Gasolina" (Video Oficial)

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Rights-holder upload, on Daddy Yankee's own channel. The record that took the rhythm worldwide, and one of those named in the complaint.

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Story · Well supportedWho owns the riddim?

A rhythm built in a Kingston studio in 1989 travelled to Panama, through New York, into San Juan, and became the pulse of the biggest Spanish-language pop music on earth. A Los Angeles court is now preparing to put the question of who owns it to a jury.