12 Songs You Had No Idea Were Sampled 

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

@qtRest yah whatever. no use in arguing

@@neuroxik yeah bro its sampled tho I just reasearched

@@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."

okay

9coralineTPOM ?

9coralineTPOM bahahahahaha

i know right!? hahaha

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

@@HAKEKABOi Woosh

Criskrish I think your wrong budd

Tyler McDonald you don’t understand a joke huh

@@HAKEKABOi got wooooshed

@@HAKEKABOi r/woooosh

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

they literally changed one word hahaha

@@enzorc0 that's just incorrect

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

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

Not me

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

Ikr

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

I didn't boi

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

+StingBear You're a fucking idiot

Anthony Dixon Well, that was rude

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

+StingBear LMAO

Zia Eve 💀💀💀

😂

😭😭😅🤣

@@austarius1564 omg yesh U`w´U

🤣

same with Take On Me and Feel This Moment

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

sweethaze _ ikr

Buzda good thing I said might be

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

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

Tansell Ziggy-Zig I didn't ._.

Tansell Ziggy-Zig and aha

I was gonna say that 😂😂😂😂

Tansell Ziggy-Zig True

I knew both songs, but I never recognised the sample

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

Lichy Guevara you're not very bright

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

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

Mine Diamonds is an awful parody of that song

@@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

Kelly Kline r/wooooosh

Kelly Kline WOOOOOOOSH

Kelly Kline r/woooosh

Nicky Nada had no idea take on me

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.

I didn’t know

Who still says ROFL

rOfL

Same lol

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

Came here to say exactly this.

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.

Headphones Girl I thought everyone knew anaconda was sampled

init I was thinking that, not sampling at all

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

+FaintVFX is it foook

slick rick is way better than miley though.

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

No way really!

You realise this was made in 2014

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

Oh

I don’t look at descriptions

Ikr?

Supercoolguy EXO-L! ❤️

Supercoolguy *oh god oh fuck*

pitbull and dj khaled too

Not a bad thing, very good

+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 :)

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

don't fucking forget afrojack :/

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.

she hired the dancers

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

***** 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"

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.

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

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.

Michael Roach yo I grew up on weird al

Malaikat31 r/woooosh

@@Malaikat31 Are you?

AMISH IS A PARODY!

@@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.

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

And gangster's paradise was sample in amish paradise 😅

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

Rightttt

@@Jay-wt6gj /r woosh

Well... fuck them.

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

I honestly did because of Bart Baker.

Wolfkami The ThunderStrike That's really depressing

maxinator317 Why?

I didn't know that! I'M SHOOK

what's anaconda?

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

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

T123456788 I didnt AH

Yes ikr i was like thats was the wrong song

Duh😒😒

Yeah man, no sh*t

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

@@peytondoesthings they settled out of court with Joe.

@@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

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

+birdorienteering Lol same

Melanie Blake me either

Same.

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

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.

She is so overrated

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!

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

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

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

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

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

abels121 No I am 14.

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

Alright

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

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

vesna certic yeah maybe everybody does lol

+blaheey1 yeeeeesssss

It was just a tribute

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

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

nice pink floyd profile pic mate

@@milesbeining truths

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

I love your pfp lol

RedTV8888 yeah sure. "Accidentally "

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

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

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."?

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

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

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

Did no one know gangstas paradise?

Annabelle Apple thats what sampling is...

I didn't know...

Do you not know what sampling means?

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!

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

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

The only one that was stolen was viva la vida

Why not?

@@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

*Lazer

+Natalie L so goob

+Felipe Sepulveda T. good

yes!

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

Coudy WANE its true tho

btw great video i only knew few of them

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

Shivam Daheriya it wasn't!

Me too!

Shivam Daheriya no one knows this Hindi song

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

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

Well then, unlicensed remastering.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's called Plagiarism aka Thieving

which one ?

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

Jade Stonem oh thx for the info

+atomiccommander 122 no prob

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

Because of people like you I want internet to be banned

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

@@TheSadMusician why

Oooooooh sorry man not funny didn’t laugh

LOL Anaconda

what is interpolation

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.

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

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

That's actually also called sampling

@@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.

Willie Cartagena and beyonces ones

Except Viva La Vida is fucking great

Willie Cartagena yep I knew the first 2

Neji Nii-san so was gangsters paradise

Xans I agree

***** yeah

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

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

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

A parody of a sampled song

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

Me neither and i actually listen to stevie :0

I didn't realise Amish Paradise was sampled

It samples the chorus of pastime paradise.

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!

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

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

***** that is a cover

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

I thought the same

I`m going to rip off all the Beatles and Michael Jackson songs and become world famous. And why not? Kids today don`t know their music.

But legally, you can get away with practically stealing entire beats and call it sampling. How else would every song on the radio sound exactly the same somehow?

+Jordan Well that's the thing with licensing. There are lots of sites that offer sample packs and you can make music with them. When you buy them you have a license to use them in your own compositions. Lots of producers buy these packs and that's why there are sometimes same loop or sound being used in different songs. Music production isn't really that based on originality, that's why these packs are being created for producers; they're good business. When there is an exact same melody from an old song being used in a new song, it is licensed from the original writer of that old song. If the melody sounds similar, it is most likely inspired by that old song.

Dude any kid who has watched back to the future has listened to a chuck berry song

Adren Graff good

Exactly!

Exactly!!

Thank you!

bless your soul

im saying that in a good way

I actually thought everyone would know that one tbh

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

Or the song sampled from I mean

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

its impossible to recongize

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

+100Stratusfiedx Sampling is always done legally.

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

how do you know they weren't sampled?

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

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.

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.

Brody Ellis lol

But the gun too my head then

I dont listen to shit music sorry

Do not kill.

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

I like how you put it :)

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

Your not the king of youtube bitch

Avrillavignefnaf Wait, if you say RU-vid Bitch, the 'e' disappears. That's the most interesting part of your comment.

Avrillavignefnaf lmao!!!

If you didn't know Anaconda was sampled then you don't know real rap

Captain.Richie and said that someone who has a crush on POKEMON !! LMAO

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

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

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...

+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…

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?

FunkyNaomii yeah like wtf😂😂😂😂

*chord

+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.

the people who made this aren't really tracking

+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.

A bunch of them are though

but that`s not sample is plagiarism

Which songs?

+Teresa Nguyen Best Song Ever from Baba O'Riley by the Who is one of them

Teresa Nguyen forever young (Alphaville), heroes (bowie), one way or another (Blondie), teenage dirtbag (wheatus) ... Most of them are just normal covers but people start to believe that 1d wrote them

+Teresa Nguyen Does She Know is practically the same as Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield.

Lady Gaga's Venus was intentional, actually she bought the rights for the song.

David Seoane yeah she listed it on the credits too!

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

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

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