Sampling
- The song was sampled by Brand Nubian on their 1990 song "Slow Down".
- The song was sampled by New Edition on their song "Something About You", from their 1996 album Home Again.
- The hook of this song was reused by Smokin' Suckaz wit Logic on their 1993 song "Mutha Made 'Em".
- Portions of the song were resung by Lauryn Hill and sampled into Aretha Franklin's 1998 hit "A Rose Is Still a Rose".
- The drum beat from an Italian bootleg version of the song was sampled and looped on Primal Scream's "Loaded".
- The guitar riff used by Tin Tin Out in their remix of The Corrs' What Can I Do is strikingly similar to the main guitar riff in "What I Am." Tin Tin Out would then go on to cover this song (see above).
- Eminem sampled this on his 2000 MTV Video Music Awards performance of "The Real Slim Shady/The Way I Am"
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