Seven dope A Tribe Called Quest samples

It was a sad time for hip hop this week with the passing of Phife Dawg. A founding member of A Tribe Called Quest, the rapper's death was met with poignant tributes from the world of music, from Chuck D to Gilles Peterson, and led us at Mixmag having ATCQ on the office stereo all day long. In memory of the 'five-foot assassin', we decided to put together of a list of the times the group's tunes have been sampled.

Armand really went to town with his sampling on 1997 tune 'Hot Butter'. Q-Tip's his man of choice, repeatedly using the jittery "hot butter on what, say what, the popcorn" lyric. That plus the distinguishable pads of Gang Starr's 'Mass Appeal' equals an absolutely golden spread of hip hop 'Hot Butter' on FFRR.

Kenny Gonzalez must be a massive fan of ATCQ because the New Yorker's sampled them at least three times on 'Pick It Up'. But as 'Buggin' Out' is one of Tip, Phife and Ali's biggest hits, we thought we'd go with this one. You know that hefty bassline, right? Dope utilises it, albeit a little more subtle, from 1.03 onwards on his creeping 1992 release. Check 'Boomin' In Ya Jeep' for another one he's delved into as well.

St Germain's debut album, 'Bouvelard (The Complete Series)' is a straight classic, no doubt about it. It's jazzy deep house (seriously) at its finest and doesn't ever get old whenever it's listened to. The French producer worked in the crispy, boom bap drums of 'Push It Along' majestically, acting as a fine accompaniment of the sleazy saxophone. Jazz, hip hop and house: heaven.

Make sure you're concentrating right from the off with this one because the glistening first note of the tune is lifted from the Faith Evans-featuring 'Stressed Out'. Marky and Japanese producer Makoto entwine it into their super fresh liquid jam, keeping in Evans' polished-as-ever vocals of knowing "how it feels to be stressed out".

MF Doom may as well have questioned "can I flip it?" with his guest appearance on Damon Albarn and co.'s 'November Has Come'. Why? The masked rapper replicated the famous "can I kick it? Yes you can" on the animated primates' second album 'Demon Days', instead switching it to "My guess is yes you can like, can I kick it? wicked." Simple, but a sample all the same.

"Jamie Trench is the Milton Keynes producer with house jams for days," we wrote when he provided us with a mix full of his own tunes. We're a massive fan of his work - chunky beats combined with the sweetest grooves - and the bulky 'Velvet Curtains' is one of our favourites. It hits hard all the way through, chucking in Q-Tip's statement telling us "all I wanna do is get down, yo." This belter certainly makes you wanna do just that.

"You know a fella's good for the moola," Q-Tip slips in on '1nce Again' from the group's fourth album 'Beats, Rhymes & Life'. Groove Armada used the lyric in 1999 feel-good track 'If Everybody Looked The Same', popping up throughout before rounding it out along with a few turntable scratches.

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