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Are You Sure? (Kris Kross Amsterdam song)

2016 single by Kris Kross Amsterdam

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ30598015 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Are You Sure?" is a song by Dutch DJ and record producer trio Kris Kross Amsterdam and English singer-songwriter Conor Maynard, featuring vocals from American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer Ty Dolla Sign. The song samples "Who Do You Love" by American musician Bernard Wright. The song was released as a digital download on 23 December 2016 through Spinnin' Records and Parlophone.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Are You Sure? (Kris Kross Amsterdam song)” is 2016 single by Kris Kross Amsterdam. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sure, Kris and Kross, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-12-23. For this dossier, Sure, Kris and Kross is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30598015. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Are You Sure? (Kris Kross Amsterdam song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.