Gasolina was released by Puerto Rican artist Daddy Yankee in 2004 as a single from his album Barrio Fino. The track helped bring reggaeton to a worldwide mainstream audience and became one of the genre's defining songs. Its chorus and beat have been sampled, remixed and quoted across Latin music and pop culture for two decades. Online, short clips circulate in memes, edits and soundboards because the opening is instantly identifiable, even to listeners who do not know the full song or speak Spanish.