Liberian Girl - Covers and Sampling

Covers and Sampling

"Liberian Girl" has been sampled and covered by various musicians:

• In 1990, Chicago-based jazz musician Chico Freeman recorded an instrumental jazz version for his album You'll Know When You Get There.
• In 1996, hip-hop artist MC Lyte sampled the song on "Keep On, Keepin' On" featuring R&B group Xscape. The song released first on the soundtrack for Sunset Park and later on MC Lyte's fifth album Bad As I Wanna B.
• In 1999, American singer Jennifer Lopez's song "If You Had My Love" contains a sample from "Liberian Girl" only on a remix called 'Dark Child Master Mix'.
• In 2001, the song was sampled on the late American rapper 2Pac's songs "Letter 2 My Unborn", on his fourth posthumous album Until the End of Time and "The Thug in Me" (original version).
• In 2007, Canadian rapper Roi Heenok sampled the song on his track "La Coka Coka", in French and released on his album Cocaïno Rap Musique: Volume 1.
• In 2009, Mac Dre sampled Jackson's song on "Black Buck Rogers".
• In 2011, Lil B, commonly known as the Based God, sampled Jackson's "Liberian Girl" on "Still Homeless."