Who Borrowed Whodini's Friends?

One listen to Whodini's classic song, Friends and you can immediately tell who sampled it.



Well at least one song is obvious...Nas and Lauryn Hill's If I Ruled The World samples the beat which has one of the most recognizable baselines in hip hop.



Yesterday, I mentioned that 2pac's Troublesome '96 also samples the beat.



Who else? MF Doom sampled it on Deep Fried Frenz.



Bone Thugs and Harmony also did their own version of Friends on their Art of War album.



We gonna go back...waaay back. To 1987, when Public Enemy sampled Friends on their debut album Yo! Bumrush the Show. Sophisticated Bitch contained a sample of the classic beat.