Future & Metro Boomin, Drake, Younger Thug, Lil Child, Massive Sean and French Montana all have this factor in widespread of their discography.
Ellie Goulding performs throughout Dick Clark’s New Yr’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024 in Hollywood, California.
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“Mile Excessive Reminiscences” from Future and Metro Boomin‘s newest album We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You evoked an surprising reminiscence from pop music: The music incorporates a pattern of Ellie Goulding‘s 2012 observe “Hanging On.” And it’s removed from the one rap music to pattern the English electro-pop singer-songwriter.
Drake famously sampled the two-time Grammy-nominated artist’s “Don’t Say a Phrase” on the Jay-Z-assisted “Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2,” which she identified in a 2020 TikTok video. Her covers of Lively Little one‘s “Hanging On” and The Weeknd‘s “Excessive For This,” the latter of which is sampled on Soulja Boy‘s “Rockstar,” have prolonged the unique songs’ histories and introduced them to new style territories. And her backwards intros (suppose Missy Elliott’s “Work It”) from “Hanging On” and “Starry Eyed” are fascinating to comply with alongside to in “Mile Excessive Reminiscences” and “I Know” by French Montana, that includes Chinx.
An Ellie Goulding pattern in rap music is so good, Younger Thug had to make use of it twice. He and Wealthy Homie Quan sampled “Beating Coronary heart” on “Love Me” in August 2015, and one month later, Thug sampled “Hanging On” on “Calling Your Identify.” (“Hanging On” received a remix from British rapper Tinie Tempah.) And one MC’s sampling historical past with EG led to an precise collaboration between the 2: Goulding tapped Massive Sean for “Straightforward Lover” from her final studio album Increased Than Heaven after he sampled “Fighter Airplane” on his music “Excessive,” that includes Wiz Khalifa and Chiddy Bang.
Billboard rounded up 11 rap songs which have sampled Ellie Goulding, so as of latest to oldest.
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Future & Metro Boomin, “Mile Excessive Reminiscences”
Future and Metro Boomin’s “Mile Excessive Reminiscences” from their newest collab album We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You samples Goulding’s electrifying cowl of Lively Little one’s “Hanging On” from his 2011 debut album You Are All I See. Her backwards intro — “(dna uoY)/ (dna uoY)/ (Yeah, yeah)/ (dna uoY)/ (no, tsuj I)/ (oN) — is heard all through “Mile Excessive Reminiscences.”
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Lil Child, “In A Minute”
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Fivio Overseas feat. Lil Tjay & Yung Bleu, “World Watching”
Fivio Overseas’s “World Watching,” that includes Lil Tjay and Yung Bleu, from his 2022 album B.I.B.L.E. samples Goulding’s 2010 Sizzling 100 No. 2 smash “Lights” from the Vibrant Lights reissue of her debut album of the identical title. Fivio sampled different 2010s songs on his debut album, together with The Chainsmokers’ “New York Metropolis” on “Metropolis of Gods” (with Ye and Alicia Keys) and Far East Motion’s “Rocketeer” on “Paris to Tokyo” with The Child LAROI.
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French Montana feat. Chinx, “I Know”
French Montana’s “I Know,” that includes Chinx, from his 2020 album CB5 samples Goulding’s 2010 observe “Starry Eyed” from her debut album Lights. Her backwards intro — “Oh, oh, starry-eyed/ Hip, oh, sta-a-a-a—/ Oh, oh, deye-yrrats/ swolg ydobyrevE, starry-eyed” — is heard all through “I Know.”
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Soulja Boy, “Rockstar”
Soulja Boy’s “Rockstar” from his 2016 mixtape of the identical title samples Goulding’s spine-chilling cowl of The Weeknd’s “Excessive For This” from his 2011 mixtape Home of Balloons. Goulding and The Weeknd each contributed Sizzling 100 No. 3 hits to the 2015 Fifty Shades of Gray (Unique Movement Image Soundtrack): She carried out “Love Me Like You Do,” which was nominated for 2 Grammys and a Golden Globe, and he carried out “Earned It,” which was up for 3 Grammys (successful one for finest R&B efficiency) and an Oscar.
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Vic Mensa & Skrillex, “No Chill”
Vic Mensa & Skrillex’s 2016 collaboration “No Chill” samples Goulding’s Sizzling 100 No. 100 hit “Explosions” from her 2012 album Halcyon. The operatic intro is heard all through “No Chill.”
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Younger Thug, “Calling Your Identify”
Younger Thug’s “Calling Your Identify” from his 2015 mixtape Slime Season samples Goulding’s “Hanging On” from the 2013 Halcyon Days reissue of her sophomore album. The primary half of her first verse — “You realize we will get away/ As a result of I’m calling your title” — is sampled and looped all through “Calling Your Identify,” and Thugger even harmonizes with Goulding in his music’s intro and outro with a screeching falsetto.
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Wealthy Homie Quan & Younger Thug, “Love Me”
Wealthy Homie Quan and Younger Thug’s “Love Me” from the previous’s 2015 album No Label Vol. 2 samples Goulding’s “Beating Coronary heart” from the 2014 Divergent: Unique Movement Image Soundtrack. The refrain of Goulding’s music — beginning with the road “Wanna hear your beating coronary heart tonight” — is faintly heard all through “Love Me,” which options Thug’s impressed hook of “I would like you to like me without end.”
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Drake & Jay-Z, “Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2”
Drake and Jay-Z’s “Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2” from the previous’s 2013 album Nothing Was The Similar samples Goulding’s “Don’t Say a Phrase,” opening observe of her 2012 album Halcyon. Her ethereal intro vocal riffs are sampled and looped all through “Pound Cake,” which reached No. 65 on the Sizzling 100 and No. 24 on Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
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Massive Sean, Wiz Khalifa & Chiddy Bang, “Excessive”
Massive Sean, Wiz Khalifa and Chiddy Bang’s “Excessive” from the previous’s 2011 debut album Lastly Well-known samples Goulding’s “Fighter Airplane” B-side to her 2009 debut single “Beneath the Sheets.” Twelve years later, she tapped Massive Sean to be the featured artist on her “Straightforward Lover” single from 2023 album Increased Than Heaven. “Straightforward Lover” reached No. 21 on Grownup Pop Airplay and No. 29 on Pop Airplay.
“We’ve stayed in contact for years as a result of he sampled me a few instances,” Goulding advised Billboard in 2022. “I all the time really feel like there’s one thing fairly particular in somebody who appreciates me that early on as an an artist, so I’ve stayed in contact with everybody from that period, specifically him as a result of I feel’s he’s constantly been an excellent artist. In some unspecified time in the future we had been going to do a collab, and it simply occurred to be this music.”
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Lupe Fiasco, “Lightwork”