From Mary J. Blige's "My Life" to Naughty by Nature's "Sunshine," here are 21 hip-hop and R&B songs that have sampled the 1976 Roy Ayers Ubiquity classic.
Billboard rounded up rap, R&B and Afrobeats songs by Rema, MF DOOM, Snoop Dogg, Burna Boy, Ashanti, Nipsey Hussle and Queen Latifah that sample and interpolate Sade.
Billboard has rounded up 16 songs by R&B and rap artists that sample old African songs.
From Patsy Cline to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, here are the samples and interpolations on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter.
Rights holders for James Brown and Sly Stone also didn’t approve the use of their music on the new album, while many licensing discussions are still ongoing.
Drake interpolates their 1986 Hot 100 chart-topper "West End Girls" on the For All the Dogs track.
Though Bowie’s name has never appeared in a co-writing credit on a top 20 country single, he has subtly influenced the genre in the past.
