12 Songs You Had No Idea Were Sampled

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Hit songs that contain a sample from another song! We did a bit of investigating about which of our favorite songs contained samples and we were surprised! Did you know that any of these? What other songs contain a sample from another song? Let us know in the comments below!
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[@mynameistye1]

Literally EVERYBODY knew about Anaconda

[@frederickgeorge8170]

Not me

[@orion3358]

* raises hand up * I didn't...

[@nonamejohnson6065]

Ikr

[@ragnaci2756]

> gives a thumb up > goes ahead and looks at replies below i feel so guilty now

[@mirela2755]

I didn't boi

[@tommoconstantly]

Everyone fucking knows Anaconda was a Sample....

[@g0tst1ngs]

+viciousalienklown uhhh tell me an idea that is? have you ever paid attention to human history? lol

[@fuekmailaifu2531]

Tansell Ziggy-Zig I didn't ._.

[@katizquierdo7439]

Tansell Ziggy-Zig and aha

[@danilo5693]

I was gonna say that 😂😂😂😂

[@SXNDICATE]

Tansell Ziggy-Zig True

[@somebodytouchamahnemjetjet1989]

Woah the toxic one...good sampling

[@amanbhogal9068]

SOMEBODY TOUCHA MAH NEM JET jet JET PACKSINSKI THE THIRD

[@neuroxik]

It's cuz it ain't sampled. The uploader doesn't really understand what sampling stands for.

[@neuroxik]

@qtRest yah whatever. no use in arguing

[@FBIAgent-bp8pd]

@@neuroxik yeah bro its sampled tho I just reasearched

[@neuroxik]

@@FBIAgent-bp8pd If you're referring to whosampled or Wikipedia as "research", had you followed its source (uproxx), it clearly states: "it isn’t a direct, verbatim sample, but it certainly worked for the song."

[@opachkii]

Coolio: Hey, can I copy your homework? Stevie: sure, just make sure to change it up a little

[@employeetapesarchive8300]

Weird Al: Hey, can I copy your homework for comedic effect? Coolio: N- Record Label: Yeah sure! Al: Alright Coolio: I never said that Al: Shit, I already turned it in

[@enzorc0]

they literally changed one word hahaha

[@douglas9932]

@@enzorc0 that's just incorrect

[@andy-tm5re]

i heard stevie wonder gave coolio permission to use his song and change it up for a movie trailer, but it ended up becoming more famous than pasttime paradise

[@S7cee]

Hey can I copy ur comment I'll changed little bit

[@gole311]

You literally have to live under a rock to not know that Anaconda is sample of Baby Got Back...

[@StingBear]

+gole311 I'm literally not living under a rock and I didn't know.

[@anthonydixon1516]

+StingBear You're a fucking idiot

[@StingBear]

Anthony Dixon Well, that was rude

[@StingBear]

Mariam Black EXCUSE ME but I'm living under a TURNIP, thank you very much. Why would anyone live under a rock?

[@lsmrkqj]

+StingBear LMAO

[@haloljt]

it hurts me that you didn't know that a-ha sample

[@lichyyyyy]

I knew both songs, but I never recognised the sample

[@valentineyves]

Benjamin Ljunggren I love A-ha Take On Me and I'm glad my dad showed me the song

[@gideonreszka9486]

Lichy Guevara you're not very bright

[@mrturtle1128]

Things is I never heard of Aguilera's one but i heard of a-ha lol

[@Atadritaata]

How can you NOT recognize the sample?......

[@LunaLinkle]

3:52 You must have made a mistake, that song was a ripoff of fallen kingdom by captainsparklez

[@sebastianosses3422]

@@HAKEKABOi Woosh

[@tylermcdonald9809]

Criskrish I think your wrong budd

[@Cevsiii]

Tyler McDonald you don’t understand a joke huh

[@jacelamorie4418]

@@HAKEKABOi got wooooshed

[@okay._.._.9351]

@@HAKEKABOi r/woooosh

[@nickynada-btc]

"You Had No Idea Were Sampled" ... come on man.. rofl

[@eyodawg3123]

Nicky Nada had no idea take on me

[@Monev360]

I believe a lot of people who just listen to music and don't really think about it, probably don't realize that these songs have samples. I have a lot of videos on my channel where I show what songs were sampled by what artists. Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z , Fergie and many more.

[@JabariMore]

I didn’t know

[@benedgerley5602]

Who still says ROFL

[@KingSlayer-ts3or]

rOfL

[@9coralineTPOM]

Cause you know... I ALWAYS jam out to the Star Trek alarm sound...

[@legogore911]

okay

[@dolanandmerrell6253]

9coralineTPOM ?

[@Demitrival]

9coralineTPOM bahahahahaha

[@MrTravisDCook]

i know right!? hahaha

[@zinayaruiz7473]

Same. I know all the words by heart👌 😂😂😂

[@jarisfurry]

I'm reading these comments and just realizing how many people overuse the term "ripoff". Sampling is part of music.

[@MissBelle127]

yeah, or "copying, "stole". Most beats are regurgitated again and again. People need to get over it lol.

[@tomlv2224]

***** that is an extremly ignorant comment. Reusing the beats is different from real sampling. Sampling is to take a very little piece of the original and incoporate it in a innovative way, like Kanye sampling basically 3 seconds of King Crimson in "Power". What Ariana Grande did with that Big Pun song, for instance, is the typical example of an actual "ripoff"

[@aarontsukino6155]

Tom Lv ripping off would be Miss.Grande not crediting the orginal artist or not crediting the writers. Ariana did however credit the samples in her album liners and wikipedia references.

[@tomlv2224]

aaron tsukino I was just looking at it in the artistic perspective (which is just my objective opinion), not legal

[@nickjones9867]

There is a line between sampling/re interpreting and out right copying. some of these cross that line. Also, when you don't credit the original work, you cross that line.

[@towamaniac8110]

No one: Beyonce shoulders: WOWOWOSNBZOSSN3BEODHSBWKEKJDBDNENEKEWOOWOS

[@IgnatiaWildsmith1227]

Zia Eve 💀💀💀

[@addy_wuzhere]

😂

[@neo-ii8is]

😭😭😅🤣

[@towamaniac8110]

@@austarius1564 omg yesh U`w´U

[@candycemudgett6438]

🤣

[@sweethaze97]

You might be living under a rock if you didn't know Baby Got Back was sampled in Anaconda. Edit: Thanks for all the likes! For you serious folks, it's obviously meant as a joke; I know not everyone has heard the song. It's all in good fun, I'm not hurting anyone. Plus I said *might be* living under a rock, doesn't mean you are :P

[@sweethaze97]

same with Take On Me and Feel This Moment

[@buzda4249]

sweethaze _ I checked twice, made sure I don't live under a rock even though I never heard that song

[@Alecexo]

sweethaze _ ikr

[@sweethaze97]

Buzda good thing I said might be

[@DMDTagz]

In my opinion, this goes for every song in that list lol

[@setton8]

'12 songs you had no idea were sampled' *less than thirty seconds in* Video: Sir Mix a Lot's Baby Got Back = Nicki Minaj's Anaconda Me: No shit...?

[@theaceofplays4961]

Same lol

[@adamgreenmyer1255]

Headphones Girl I be seen comments from people who just have no clue.... blows my mind but the kids out there then some ignorant others are so narrowed they don't realize what's around them

[@MODEL_CITIZEN]

Came here to say exactly this.

[@BigD-jc6rj]

Hahaha! Well aware of that! Baby Got Back was top of the charts when I was in high school, and they played it at EVERY school dance.

[@dominic7114]

Headphones Girl I thought everyone knew anaconda was sampled

[@RedTV8888]

Viva La Vida wasn't sampled, it was accidentally ripped off, Joe Satriani sued Coldplay, and then they settled it out of court.

[@pongobabongo]

RedTV8888 yeah sure. "Accidentally "

[@13dirty666]

analysing both songs really just lead you to a slightly similar melodic contour on only a select few phrases

[@MrNeshawn31]

RedTV8888 accidentally?! With word manipulation like you must have gone to law school! 😂😂

[@RedTV8888]

Neshawn Ghavamian Accidentally writing something that you don't know already exists as a song simply because you have never heard it before is very possible and quite common. Billy Joel has even admitted that the original version of Movin' Out was pointed out to him as sounding exactly like another song that was fairly popular and well known by his drummer and he didn't even realize it until it was pointed out to him. It's extremely likely that Coldplay wrote the song, recorded it, and released it without ever hearing the not very popular Joe Satriani song. Same goes for the fans that made it famous by buying it. How many people do you really think thought "Wow, that sounds JUST LIKE that one part from that one Joe Satriani song."?

[@seizeimmunity4113]

RedTV8888 Me bit i listen to a lot of Joe so that may be the only reason haha

[@supercoolguy3923]

songs you had no idea were sampled every Daft Punk song ever

[@horasyminutosahorapasaranv9520]

Ikr?

[@OK-mv4ih]

Supercoolguy EXO-L! ❤️

[@inkystix5327]

Supercoolguy *oh god oh fuck*

[@wenxiu1276]

pitbull and dj khaled too

[@martingoleski7049]

Not a bad thing, very good

[@user-sx7fu5ir2f]

Take on me is sampled by mine diamonds

[@kellykline6413]

Mine Diamonds is an awful parody of that song

[@connor4088]

@@kellykline6413 mine diamonds is music listemed to bu angels I either wrote this comment when I was high or rlly fucking tired cos the spelling is awful

[@Jay-wt6gj]

Kelly Kline r/wooooosh

[@lemonsucker2603]

Kelly Kline WOOOOOOOSH

[@cleb5216]

Kelly Kline r/woooosh

[@flaviol]

in "run the world" is practically the s a m e lol

[@flaviol]

+James D just because is recent i had to know? i have no ideia it was major lazer before lean on, so yes, as i said, sound exactly the same for me :)

[@producerx3819]

Switch produced Pon de Floor with Diplo when he was part of Major Lazer project and then Switch produce "Run The World" by Beyonce and use the same beat maybe that is why sound the same. sorry for my english

[@ShadX1001]

don't fucking forget afrojack :/

[@thelindofiles]

In Jamaica, the producer has the right to the rhythm and invites artistes to voice on it. This is not uncommon at all here. Nelly Furtado did the same thing with Turn off the Lights actually.

[@StrawHatLoe]

she hired the dancers

[@TheDude44464]

We Can't Stop isn't really a sample, as much as it is just referencing the song.

[@jacobbirse8424]

init I was thinking that, not sampling at all

[@jacobbirse8424]

Taking a beat or a hook off the original song is a sample, taking bar out of a song and making your own version is just copying there shit. Take dead presents by jay z, that's a bar out of a song but still using the original sound, if jay had of said it that would just be him saying the same shit that nas said. Not a sample

[@jacobbirse8424]

+FaintVFX is it foook

[@aaronstrahm2162]

slick rick is way better than miley though.

[@TheDude44464]

Aaron Strahm I mean...it's hard to compare two totally different types of music, but if you think that, that's cool.

[@massoffermentingflesh]

So you're telling me... Gangster's paradise sampled past time paradise... *WHICH SAMPLED AMISH PARADISE*

[@abmutes3533]

Michael Roach yo I grew up on weird al

[@ashlyn6125]

Malaikat31 r/woooosh

[@catattack7639]

@@Malaikat31 Are you?

[@peytondoesthings]

AMISH IS A PARODY!

[@pryingeyes1551]

@@peytondoesthings The Amish don't even record their music, because they shun fancy things like electricity. It's really astonishing that Calico even came across the song to begin with. I heard that Al, the Amish guy, sent Steven a cease and desist letter, but apparently he didn't read it.

[@Weeb_Wacker]

7rings by Ariana Grande was sampled from My Favorite Things in 1972

[@Youmemichael]

No way really!

[@gee7519]

You realise this was made in 2014

[@theforeverfalling]

Wow, you cultural genius, tell me something I didn’t know

[@Weeb_Wacker]

Oh

[@Weeb_Wacker]

I don’t look at descriptions

[@SamRaycraft]

I feel like everybody knew about Baby Got Back and Anaconda

[@SamRaycraft]

Well... fuck them.

[@maxinator317]

+DestinationMan baby got back is one of the most recognizable songs ever, i'm pretty sure everyone knew that

[@Kettterer]

I honestly did because of Bart Baker.

[@maxinator317]

Wolfkami The ThunderStrike That's really depressing

[@Kettterer]

maxinator317 Why?

[@melani4111]

ok...i had no idea about the stevie wonder song

[@birdorienteering]

Yeah, that one surprised me. I thought Coolio made that shit up.

[@aruraj2564]

+birdorienteering Lol same

[@Keshia.means.GreatJoy]

Melanie Blake me either

[@BeanieDraws]

Same.

[@ooroshaza]

Thats why it doesn't contain profanity, Stevie didn't allow that. They performed together the song in1995 Billboard Awards.

[@frankatana1568]

wtf gangstar's paradise sampled from stevie wonder

[@SavageOra]

Frank Beats nearly all gangta rap samples/rips from something else.

[@Phonixrmf]

And gangster's paradise was sample in amish paradise 😅

[@Jay-wt6gj]

Phonixrmf no... Amish paradise isn’t a sample, it’s a parody.

[@felipecaetano6028]

Rightttt

[@valde2609]

@@Jay-wt6gj /r woosh

[@Artistic_Anime_Trash]

Nobody: Beyoncé: steals half a song to do shoulder dances.

[@larosen8454]

She is so overrated

[@basicallyshay6611]

Fun fact: when you “steal” a song you actually pay respect, pay tons of money, and have a tribute for the creator! So she’s giving the creator respect!

[@TheHuskyK9]

Not stolen. You have to pay the original artists to sample from their songs

[@CountryCowboy008]

@@TheHuskyK9 search “Countdown Beyonce Imitates” and see for yourself

[@eeurr1306]

@@TheHuskyK9 you can just try stealing it changing it up a bit and hope it doesnt get noticed.

[@Kloppsserialbottlers]

The Britney one at the start...yo that's some good sampling!

[@laurenap7790]

that's how sampling is supposed to be. you take small samples from songs that aren't always full songs sometimes just a jingle and you make something totally different from it. don't really like Kanye West but he's a sampling genius.

[@T123456788]

Are there seriously people who didn't know that Anaconda sampled Baby Got Back?

[@xdaff]

I didn't know that! I'M SHOOK

[@pato20995]

what's anaconda?

[@ryecustard7687]

randomguy / FHDHDH you seriously don't know? The Nicki Manaje song

[@XanderZ0ne]

RyeCustard if he does not know the song, I envy him he is one if the few lucky ones

[@TAMAKOU122]

T123456788 I didnt AH

[@Tricus]

3:35 You made a mistake. Viva La Viva was actually sampled from Fallen Kingdom.

[@abdoonyt9049]

Yes ikr i was like thats was the wrong song

[@laffin_out_loud]

Anaconda is easily noticed.

[@LifeInMintues]

OK I'm sorry but EVERYONE knew Anaconda sampled Baby Got Back. She wasn't even trying to hide it.

[@metalcoreisnotmetal]

My thoughts exactly. "Feel this moment" was also EXTREMELY obvious, I thought everyone knew about that.

[@LifeInMintues]

LOL. I mean she used actual audio from the original song! I couldn't think of a good username

[@lancelotisawsome]

Did no one know gangstas paradise?

[@tb770]

Annabelle Apple thats what sampling is...

[@wolvesheart]

I didn't know...

[@Dylanm94]

I don't think you really got what "Sampling" means.

[@regularearthkid]

Yeah and the Coldplay song was dealt with in court, straight up stolen :P

[@regularearthkid]

Lol, are the windows in your house always very clean? :/

[@57yearoldjamesbond]

Well then, unlicensed remastering.

[@regularearthkid]

57 Year Old James Bond not when you give it a different name and claim it as your original composition. :P

[@lachlanwoodhead3010]

Sampling is when for example in Dubstep where they take a small audio clip and put it before the drop. But most of these weren't sampled they were just stolen

[@tjtrashboat]

What do you mean? Viva La Vida was obviously sampled from Fallen Kindom by CaptainSparklez

[@ajourney8750]

Duh😒😒

[@rawhidelamp]

Yeah man, no sh*t

[@peytondoesthings]

TJ Trashboat no trash. Viva was not a parody. Fallen Kingdom was. Everybody is doing this but I whoosh all of you who don’t even know. Fallen Kingdom parodied Viva La Vida, which won against a lawsuit over Joe Satriani’s If I Could Fly. The melodies are *i n t e r p o l a t e d*. Listen to it

[@brianpraamsma2607]

@@peytondoesthings they settled out of court with Joe.

[@kingpeedorah]

@@peytondoesthings oh my god are you serious? They made fallen kingdom before Viva la vida and then remake it after that with the music video bruuh

[@LevUFO]

For the Coldplay one I don't think it was sampled there was actually some kind of lawsuit involved I believe.

[@mimiperator6505]

If I am right, the Viva La Vida melody is from a classical song and Coldplay told that they made the song all by themself etc etc. But I am not sure about it, correct me if you need to

[@spike8244]

i'm an indian and i didnt know toxic was sampled from this hindi song

[@spike8244]

btw great video i only knew few of them

[@katakisLives]

Well, you can't be expected to know literally every single Indian film ever made! that one looked pretty old anyway

[@thechameleon2636]

Shivam Daheriya it wasn't!

[@Anjali-pd1vj]

Me too!

[@ayaan4482]

Shivam Daheriya no one knows this Hindi song

[@DanYuleo]

A lot of these aren't technically samples, though. They're just like stolen ideas.

[@lorainekelly5015]

+Dan Yuleo what even is your logic behind this at all

[@DanYuleo]

Loraine Kelly The Logic is A doesn't equal B haha. Pretty simple, really. To take ideas isn't sampling. Sampling is using a blip of audio in a new song. Many of these weren't samplings at all, but just reiterations of older ideas. Do you have "logic behind" disregarding that? Not trying to antagonize, just don't understand what you don't.

[@leonherperger4055]

"idea's"? chord progressions and melodies can be copyrighted. these were blatantly stolen

[@DanYuleo]

Leon Herperger I can definitely get behind that stance (regardless of everything being "a remix" of something that came before, as Kirby put it).

[@utubehound69]

It's called Plagiarism aka Thieving

[@brooklynthemusicsnob6222]

“good artist borrow, great artists steal”

[@daisythomas7905]

danisnotonchairs !-/ I’m struggling to get over your name omg it’s the best, like I just finished watching a compilation on danyul falling off chairs lmaoo

[@alarbu17]

nice pink floyd profile pic mate

[@zobel.]

@@milesbeining truths

[@landerverlinden5689]

​@@milesbeining Just wondering, but who do you say are great artists than?

[@mcfly4959]

I love your pfp lol

[@yaboyskinnypenis4593]

Bruh sir mix a lot was literally in both songs😂😂

[@coudywane888]

Beyoncé "boy this beat is crazy" well it surely ain't yours 😂😂😂 (jk no hate plz)

[@milahmartinson4681]

Coudy WANE its true tho

[@natalie5739]

The transition from Major Lazed to Beyoncé is so good!

[@natalie5739]

*Lazer

[@felipesepulvedat.4880]

+Natalie L so goob

[@felipesepulvedat.4880]

+Felipe Sepulveda T. good

[@BrooklynKing22]

yes!

[@Fixiefre123ak]

I met this guy two days ago who went on tour with major lazer and produced their videos, and I got to see the unreleased video of their tour ! it was amazing

[@michaelross9546]

About the "We Can't Stop" one..... that's not a sample.

[@MIMH32]

Why not?

[@TheHuskyK9]

@@MIMH32 It’s a reference, not a sample. Lyrics aren’t sampled unless it’s part of the beat. Taking someone’s lyrics and putting it in your own lyrics is referencing

[@KevinelGamerlol]

Sampling doesn't mean using the same lyrics :D

[@carlemilfgreve]

That's actually also called sampling

[@KevinelGamerlol]

@@carlemilfgreve No, reusing lyrics is not sampling, sampling is using parts of a song and adding new elements to it, not using lyrics from another song.

[@DeltaMx94]

Really? Anaconda? There are people actually who apparently didn't know it was using the entirety of it's instrumentals from Baby got Back?

[@1vite]

DeltaMx94 For example me :/ I don't listen to this stuff so why should I know?

[@1vite]

abels121 No I am 14.

[@1vite]

abels121 I don't have a mom nor a dad and they know I am using my computer.

[@1vite]

Alright

[@manlystump4240]

***** I'm not sure what you think the word parents means but I'm pretty sure you just misused it...

[@blaheey1]

Also: Madonna - Hung Up (2005) ABBA - Gimme a man after midnight (1986)

[@SpendTimeOnOurVideos]

+blaheey1 everyone knows that and it's caled Gimme!Gimme!Gimme!

[@blaheey1]

vesna certic yeah maybe everybody does lol

[@eldonmati]

+blaheey1 yeeeeesssss

[@doloresnight]

It was just a tribute

[@FatimaIsabel_]

+Miguel Jimenez not a tribute. Madonna asked the guys of ABBA if she can sample the song. They rarely do give permission.

[@mcfly4959]

Fall Out Boy sampled the Munsters theme song in Uma Thurman

[@Bradinkus]

Guys Gangstas Paradise Is Here The boys: OmG ITS SONICCCCCC

[@TheSadMusician]

Because of people like you I want internet to be banned

[@JetpackBudda]

Boys: Omg its Sonic!!!!!!! Men: The amish are calling

[@user-kj6cf7wf3f]

@@TheSadMusician why

[@rhettnewman7908]

Oooooooh sorry man not funny didn’t laugh

[@fajam00m00]

The Satriani/Coldplay one was not a sample. They just happened to sound alike. Remember the lawsuit?

[@jadecznnie]

MAJOR LAZER LITERALLY MADE THE BEST BEAT IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC

[@atomiccommander1222]

which one ?

[@jadecznnie]

+atomiccommander 122 the one in the video...pon the floor

[@atomiccommander1222]

Jade Stonem oh thx for the info

[@jadecznnie]

+atomiccommander 122 no prob

[@leyonleo]

tbh it really sounds like it is already sampled from afrojacks no beef

[@thewallflower5449]

2:57 Poor lady. Two artists ripped her off

[@nsjshdjxhdudjsjdndbdidicic7218]

Ganstas paradise isn't sampled it is based off of pastime paradise

[@mitchellima4736]

It samples the chorus of pastime paradise.

[@smzxvv771]

the star trek Ariana one is so funny

[@justine6toprim]

Diana Ross - I'm coming outB.I.G. notorious - Mo money mo problemsAriana Grande - Break your hear right back

[@justine6toprim]

***** yeah

[@LadyLovegood12]

yes !! (btw nicki minaj also samples it on her song "i'm cumin")

[@arielharmon4280]

Biggie did it best, but that might just be me.

[@BlackCloverStudios]

0:49 *me when dinners ready* Only true Vine fans will remember

[@pfinks7889]

0:58 I didn't even know there were a song, that used it as sample.

[@ThePancaked1]

who the fuck doesn't know take on me?

[@stafzoo]

I thought the same

[@BrodyEllis111]

If you didn't know anaconda was sampled, you should be put down

[@soarenstevenson6050]

Brody Ellis lol

[@mrpersonman67]

But the gun too my head then

[@DankMatter]

I dont listen to shit music sorry

[@MrRandomCheeseGuy]

Do not kill.

[@midzy739]

Well, everyone knew that take on me was sampled, tho.

[@magnusandresen5390]

Well, most of these isn't Even sampled, there just copied lol

[@WorldBeans]

Do you not know what sampling means?

[@magnusandresen5390]

Funny Moments yes, but ‘feel this moment’ didn't sample that song, they just stole the melody, same with gangsters paradise and many other songs On this list. STUPID!

[@Jay-wt6gj]

Magnus Andresen that’s what sampling is... they pay... to “steal” or use the exact melody. You. You don’t know what sampling means...

[@nathancraig4710]

mintytree aka rosecharm5 no, sampling is taking the exact audio clip and putting effects on it or chopping it up. Using a melody or lyrics is different, you just have to give them songwriter credits

[@jujubank3176]

The only one that was stolen was viva la vida

[@WhateverIsTrue01]

Lol, "Viva la vida" wasn't a sample - they just plagiarised the riff and got sued for it!! 😂😂

[@al-farouqakwuegbu1429]

Very few of those were actually "sampled". There's a huge difference between sampling music and ripping off music.

[@devinodriscoll]

It's sampling if the artists' producers paid the rights to use the particular sample, therefore acknowledging the origin of the sample.

[@dannymain542]

how do you know they weren't sampled?

[@TheJofrica]

None of these would ever exist if they didn't have permission from the producers to use the material

[@AndyTheDwemer]

Depends on how you define the word "sampled". Usually it means that the artist litteraly takes a piece of the original song and plays it on loop or incorporates it in to their song while adding their vocals and other instruments to the mix (a great example is Ice Ice Baby). In that case most of these songs weren't sampled, they just reused melodies and/or chord progressions.

[@AndyTheDwemer]

It was a rip-off, but that doesn't mean that Vanilla Ice didn't sample Under Pressure, he did, just without permission. Most of the songs on this list however are not samples per se, they're just ripping off melodies and guitar/synth riffs and whatnot.

[@kaios636]

Me: *listens to take on me* TOM: TAKE ON ME *police* OPEN UP Me: OH CRA- We’ll Be Right Back

[@SuperCosty2010]

"You had no idea" like there's no one else on youtube.

[@GreenDay56]

It's funny how when One Direction does something like this theres people who just freak out and say they stole someone else's music, but when artists like these do it most people hardly even notice it.

[@marblebubblefish]

Exactly!

[@AfghanGirlx1999]

Exactly!!

[@Tc123.]

Thank you!

[@christianna.l]

bless your soul

[@christianna.l]

im saying that in a good way

[@BroadwayBaby313]

I'm pretty sure everyone knows Anaconda sampled Baby Got Back....

[@robertsmusic4727]

La di da di is samples so much more than ppl think

[@ihaveasmallpenisbut9421]

3:50 Did you mean: *MINECRAFT*

[@willo_1156]

Feel this moment, anaconda, viva la vida and gangsta paradise are obvious.

[@likemycommentgurl5196]

Willie Cartagena and beyonces ones

[@ren7220]

Except Viva La Vida is fucking great

[@Alecexo]

Willie Cartagena yep I knew the first 2

[@Alecexo]

Neji Nii-san so was gangsters paradise

[@ren7220]

Xans I agree

[@jeveroliong8797]

I didn't know that Gangsta Paradise was a sample song...

[@frickincracker4494]

Me neither so does this mean weird al made a parody of a parody sorry if I'm wrong I figured I'd ask

[@ShipShipMaya]

A parody of a sampled song

[@Harald_Haselnuss]

Jevero Liong but Stevie Wonder agreed to it. They even performed it together.

[@oyemate8647]

Me neither and i actually listen to stevie :0

[@llever888]

I didn't realise Amish Paradise was sampled

[@Fl0yd-]

I had no idea they were sampled because I never heard them or seen them before.

[@romulusnr]

Weird Al: I have a great idea for a song parody Coolio: No, I don't want you to use my song Stevie Wonder: Whose song we talking about?

[@PrecociousFriand]

There's a difference between sampling, interpolation, referencing, and then just plain ripping something the fuck off. Most of these are the latter.

[@ren7220]

LOL Anaconda

[@Eimadanature]

what is interpolation

[@victoria-mf1hg]

Neji Nii-san Actually, Anaconda is one of the few songs that isn't ripping off the song because it's clear that she didn't create that part.

[@ren7220]

victoria I mean, true, though it doesn't change how she straight up copy pasted.

[@ouci]

Neji Nii-san if you actually listened to the song you know she only used the my anaconda part and didn’t even use the same hook

[@ilovepiedoyou2]

Christina and Pitbull sampling Take On Me was an obvious one. I was born in '00 and even I knew that.

[@piperravely369]

I was born in 2005 and I knew 9 of these songs were sampled. I'm 10!!!!! But really the only reason that I know is because of my awesome mom!

[@blakedmc1989DDRHD]

Mel there was people b4 them who sampled dat song too 4 example: Captain Jack - Take on Me

[@ersterpleght]

Piper Ravely Congrats, you really deserve a biscuit. Or wait, should we send it to your mom? xDSometimes, comments get reaaaaally annoying...

[@jadipeperzak4034]

***** that is a cover

[@3V1LW1Z4RD]

Mel Haha i was born in 2000 too * high five *

[@instinctbrosgaming9699]

Some of these are so obvious that you'd have to be new to music to not know these were sampled.

[@1millionsubswithnovideosch216]

Gangster paradise sounds like pastime paradise

[@kwangyeon]

How do people not know Take On Me? It's such a classic.

[@kelsey7904]

I actually thought everyone would know that one tbh

[@thececilianator]

It doesn't mean they don't know the sampled song, just that most people wouldn't notice the similarities.

[@thececilianator]

Or the song sampled from I mean

[@Hereismytwocents2011]

"Take on Me" is classic 80's, and should never be touched!

[@AlohaFourpeaks_]

its impossible to recongize

[@zachdaly7071]

We gotta admit, Gangsta's paradise is better

[@joaoaurelio1534]

DalyDoesMC Other times...But i also feel like Stevie Wonder's song was just waitin' to be what it should be..."Gangsta Paradise". But i grew up with that movie, not in the 70's

[@zachdaly7071]

Well yeah there's something about Stevie's voice which somewhat makes it better. But me growing up and as a 90s kid, I'm more profound to gangsta's paradise

[@bingusbongus8472]

But then we've gotta admit, Amish Paradise is better

[@aimbot9643]

Fun fact : I was sampled

[@LAKANMusic]

I thought I wasn't supposed to know these songs were sampled?

[@100Stratusfiedx]

I knew all of these, however, Pitbull's songs are ALWAYS so blatant. As for the Beyonce's run the world, Diplo gave her permission and suggested she use it.

[@macielfelipemarcos]

+100Stratusfiedx also it was produced by Switch who is part of Major Lazer

[@madiis18account]

+100Stratusfiedx Sampling is always done legally.

[@FunkyNaomii]

That last one tho 😂😂

[@evajaafar6502]

FunkyNaomii yeah like wtf😂😂😂😂

[@dweight7891]

LMAO that star trek one

[@BitcoinMotorist]

Star Trek Red Alert theme is a literal sample. There's also a "Command and Conquer" video game alert theme that was in the White Zombie song "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks, and Cannibal Girls"

[@voicelessglottalfricative6567]

Make a "songs you knew were sampled" with Workout by J Cole

[@lrc4263]

Dude... "La Di Da Di" is one of if not THE most sampled song in music history. Miley was far from the first person to bite it.

[@llnsve]

Laeric Thomas I'm pretty sure Beyonce also used it for her song "Party"

[@lrc4263]

Glad Drago never heard that song, but it wouldn't surprise me. That song has been sampled COUNTLESS times

[@rainbowslushy223]

thats so painfully wrong the most sampled song of a all time is funky drummer. since it was used for most rap and hip hop beats

[@lrc4263]

RaF KiNs I'm so painfully wrong for saying "La Di Da Di" is ONE OF the most sampled songs? No, I'm not. There are several songs that have been sampled way more than "Funky Drummer." I guess should have said "La Di Da Di" has the most LYRICAL references in other songs, along with the beat. Either way, YOU are painfully wrong, both in saying it's the MOST sampled song, AND in saying it's beat is used for MOST hip-hop songs. Most would mean the majority, and that is absolutely false.

[@rainbowslushy223]

oh ok do you have a diploma in music and studied music for two years? also lyrical referencing is NOT sampling . just curious what songs use la di da di?

[@mccnshyyne]

That last one made me laugh tho.

[@lukj4433]

I honestly thought that take on me was gonna be sampled by MINE DIAMONDS

[@lariayuyam7393]

no one when you lean against the bus window: 1:56

[@kaile615]

Ariana grande break your heart right back also sampled a song

[@Sydni.1994]

What song is sampled to that?

[@claudiogutierrezm640]

SydniAnnCummingsx13 "I'm Coming Out' By diana ross

[@jakenguyen3454]

That was the point of it.

[@claudiogutierrezm640]

Jake Nguyen yes, I'm pretty sure we are all aware of that :) I don't know why people are making such a fuzz about samples, the artist pays for the copyrights so they can use it on their songs. I don't see a problem with that :)

[@sangieredwolf]

I think EVERYONE knew Nicki Minaj sampled Sir-Mix-A-Lot

[@TheHuskyK9]

>Songs you NEVER KNEW was sampled >Proceeds to play songs everyone knew was sampled

[@grimsleeper5945]

It is so obvious that take on me was sampled in that pit bull song

[@JustJay]

I knew about half of these. I would be really disappointed if no one knew that about "Anaconda" though. And for the people out there who are getting mad at the artists who are sampling from different artists, just remember: they have permission to use parts of the song. Also, it's not like they are completely copying the exact song. They are taking snippets and incorporating it into their existing song to create something new.

[@clairemurray7033]

ikr I saw the vid (on a dare) and I was like OOOOOOOMMMMMGGGGGGG I know who this is!!!

[@calebross933]

I like how you put it :)

[@king6595]

half of these aren't samples... they just happen to have the same melody and Chris progression...learn what a sample is

[@king6595]

*chord

[@guitaraobscura8802]

+Harrison Yeah I could've sworn sampling meant taking an actual snippet of a song and putting it into your own. I was confused with some of them that just had a similar melody and were called samples.

[@frendzy7476]

the people who made this aren't really tracking

[@VitaminKMusic]

+Harrison Yes they are. A sample according to copyright law is taking an actual snippet of a song or replaying a melody or lyric of a song that is not yours and using it for your own work. You can get sued if you do either without their permission.

[@zippityzoop1478]

A bunch of them are though

[@williamnuckolls2232]

I don't think "Don't and "Toxic" were sampled from the previous songs, those two were kind of a stretch.

[@rivloveatomb6563]

The last one killed me! Hahaha

[@TehMadafacas]

I freaked out with Joe Satriani and Coldplay

[@Tehn00bifierer]

+Teh Madafacas no fucking kidding...I didn't want to believe it.

[@JulioCRVNTS]

+Teh Madafacas Satriani samled it from "Enanitos Verdes - Frances limon" listen and see.

[@TehMadafacas]

Julio Alfonso Cervantes Gonzalez It seems that they all "sampled" it from an Italian composer back on the 18th century, as his music is now in public domain... I wonder how many artists actually make their own songs and don't steal music from others...

[@HipHipHeredia]

+Teh Madafacas Actually this wasn't a sample, Coldplay claimed they just happened to make up the tune, they had never even heard Satrianis song. It went to court and everything…

[@TehMadafacas]

Hip Hip Heredia Well, it could be, but I find it hard to believe that Coldplay made the tune on their own, when there were other 2 artists before them who seem to have the same tune as a 17th century composer... Did all of them go to court to prove they hadn't copied anything? And what kind of proof can assure in a court that you didn't take a certain melody from a composer who is defunct?

[@jewlseville]

the last one is just a troll

[@johnnyjoestar3566]

0:49 Was it just me who sang “Ragaggagaga yah ah ah ragagaga ya ga ga” after that song from “Sing”?

[@johndc_4w]

Can we talk abt how usher sampled Creeper AWWW MAN

[@dillona2349]

Copying a melody isn't sampling...

[@thapoint09]

+Dillon Aubin It's interpolation, a form of sampling. It's like how Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock replays the riff from Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express.

[@dillona2349]

I stand corrected

[@TheStompboxer]

+thapoint09 Sampling is a form of interpolation. You have it backward. Dillon Aubin was right to start with.

[@thapoint09]

They're two sides of the same coin.

[@TheStompboxer]

+thapoint09 What you're saying is analogous to "vegetables are a form of green bean," then "green beans and vegetables are two sides of the same coin." This really isn't that difficult.

[@allied9380]

Do you know how SAMPLING really sounds? Listen to Eminem's "Sing for the moment" or "No Love". That is sampling which is an okay thing to do when you are a rapper or a DJ. Most of the tracks in this video have nothing to do with sampling. Moreover, at least 50% of them are just stolen.

[@JohnDoe-ov9ib]

It's not stealing if it's permitted, paid for and credited. Sheesh people.

[@arvark4105]

Allie D That's called a double standard, kid...

[@conkreetgamer]

so if gangsters paradise sampled from stevie wonder and gangsters paradise is in the sonic movie, stevie wonder is officially 100% proven to be in the sonic lore

[@princesssendransa8281]

"12 songs you had no idea were sampled" Me: *knew LITERALLY ALL BUT 3*