Samples

I was listening to the radio today and an old school Diddy (is that still his name?) song came on. I remember he used to get a lot of heat for using a lot of sampling in his songs, (Every Breath You Take, Mo Money Mo Problems, etc) but then I got to thinking... Every freakin song out there is probably a derivative of some older song whether they know it or not. Some realize it and are less subtle about it than others. Heck, maybe the lack of subtly is just an acknowledgement and salute to the original artist?

Anyway, here are some random songs that people might be surprised to know are completely sampled off of older songs:

Will Smith - Men in Black (Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots)
Coolio - Gangster's Paradise (Stevie Wonder - Pasttime Paradise)
Will Smith - Wild Wild West (Stevie Wonder - I Wish)
Warren G - Regulate (Michael McDonald - I keep Forgettin')
Tupac - Changes (Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is)
Naughty By Nature - OPP (Jackson 5 - ABC)
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (David Bowie feat. Queen - Under Pressure)
Gym Class Heroes - Cupid's Chokehold (Supertramp - Breakfast in America)
Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down (Grandmaster Flash - The Message)

And to end, a bunch of Daft Punk samples.