Shook Ones (Part II) - As Sampled By Other Songs

As Sampled By Other Songs

  • The song was sampled by R&B Mariah Carey in her single "The Roof," Sublime in its song "April 29, 1992 (Miami)", the Canadian R&B singer Keshia Chanté in her 2003 single "Shook (The Answer)", and in Mims' debut single "This Is Why I'm Hot".
  • New Kids On The Block frontman Jordan Knight sampled the song on the album track "Don't Run" from his 1999 self-titled debut, though in the liner notes it was improperly credited to another Mobb Deep song "Survival Of The Fittest".
  • The Fat Joe song "The Crack Attack," samples a line from the song to form the chorus.
  • It was briefly used in the G-Unit diss song 300 Bars and Runnin by The Game.
  • The Group Home song "Tha Realness" from their album Livin' Proof samples bits of Prodigy's vocals ("...the realness" for the hook and "...comes equipped" on various parts of the song).
  • British Emcee Akala samples it in his track 'This Is London' on 2004's The War Mixtape.
  • A sample from the end of Prodigy's verse, "take these words home and think it through", is used by East Coast Avengers in their song, "Dear Michelle", a response to Michelle Malkin's criticism of their single, "Kill Bill O'Reilly.
  • The Cashh Montana song, "Queens" samples the songs beat and some harmonies.
  • DJ Design sampled some of Prodigy's lines for his song "Major (feat. B. Lloyd)"
  • Trip hop musician Emancipator produced a mashup of "Shook Ones (Part II)" and Sigur Rós's song "untitled 1 / Vaka"
  • Atmosphere sampled, and did a slight variation of the intro of "Shook Ones (Part II)" on their intro of "Always Coming Back Home To You". Atmosphere also sampled and did a slight variation of the hook of "Shook Ones (Part II)" in their song "Party For The Fight To Write".
  • Finnish group SkateManiaCs uses the beat for their song "Hoodrats".
  • Rick Ross samples this song for his song "Audio Meth", which is in an iTunes Pre-Order version of Teflon Don.
  • The song was sampled by Donell Jones in his song "The Only One You Need".
  • American Pop star Lady Gaga samples the opening instrumental and a couple of verses in an interlude known as "Paws Up" or "Antler Film". The song was also mixed with Fancy Footwork (Crooker's Remix).
  • This song was sampled in the song "#sheplife" by Briggs and was featured on the Golden Era Mixtape 2012

8 French rapper Guizmo in a song called "#Fugitif"

  • The line "Don't make me have to call your name out" is sampled in the song "Death of Salesman" by People Under the Stairs.

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