Ma2000s took fire this past week. Let's help them understand where some of their fave tracks got inspiration from...

Kanye's Through the Wire
Tupac's Hit 'Em Up

Go ahead and add any song which got its sample somewhere else

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The Fugees got their inspiration for Ready or Not from Enya's Boadicea. Got sued by Enya's record label for not crediting the sample

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Ms. Diana Ross made this tribute to her beloved Marvin Gaye. In turn inspired Notorious Big's Missin' U...

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Killing Me Softly by the Fugees reminded us of Ms. Lauryn Hill's vocal prowess.

Originally brought by Ms. Roberta Flack who inspired Luther Vandross and so on it went

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I swear my Teenage Minions stared at me, jaws hanging, when I sang along to Keisha White's Weakness In Me soon as it dropped.
"Lark when did you learn the lyrics?! "

I told them it was during Ms. Joan Amatrading's original and they fought me!

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Ms. Mary J Blige went and added all the nice things into Roy Ayers' original and called it My Life and we fell head first

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Okay these are all from the top of my head... I'll go remember some more.

Meantime please feel free to add to this THREAD, I wanna learn something new about songs which are samples of originals
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