Samples and Other Versions
The song was sampled by rap duo Eric B. & Rakim in their single "Paid In Full", Snoop Dogg used the same sample on his remake of "Paid In Full" titled "Paper'd Up" from his album Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$. Nas also used the same sample in his diss song to Jay-Z entitled "H to the Homo".
Canadian band Delerium sample the lyrics in their song 'Hidden Mask', from the 1989 album "Faces, Forms & Illusions".
American Rap group Public Enemy also sampled the opening few seconds of the song (which are a cappella) on the track "Can't Truss It", featured on the 1991 album Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black.
The song features very briefly as background music in a restaurant at the beginning of the 2000 film American Psycho.
In 1998 Swedish DJ team C&N Project included a sample of the opening line "Im nin'alu" on their single "The Queen of Tel Aviv", which was credited to C&N Project Featuring Ofra Haza.
Israeli singer Michal Cohen performs "Im Nin'alu" on La Kahena (2005) by DJ Cheb i Sabbah.
Part of the song appears in Madonna's song "Isaac" from her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005).
"Im Nin'alu" is the opening track on Eliyahu & The Qadim Ensemble's album Eastern Wind (2009), with lead vocals by Rachel Valfer.
In 2009 Punjabi MC remixed this song on his album named Indian Timing.
In 2012, jazz quartet Third World Love performed a version of Im Nin'alu on their album "Songs and Portraits".
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