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95 samples across 90 songs by 79 artists.

Ahmad Jamal
Awakening: (ABC 1970)
• “Dolphin Dance”
  • Common’s “Resurrection”
Jamalca: (20th Century 1974)
• “Ghetto Child”
  • Common ft. John Legend’s “They Say”
Alton McLain & Destiny
It Must Be Love: (Polydor 1978)
• “Power of Love”
  • Common’s “This is Me”
Archie Whitewater
Archie Whitewater: (Cadet 1970)
• “Cross Country”
  • Common’s “Chapter 13 (Rich Man vs. Poor Man)”
Billy Cobham
Spectrum: (Atlantic 1973)
• “Red Baron”
  • Common’s “Two Scoops of Raisins”
Bob James
Four: (CTI 1977)
• “Tappan Zee”
  • Common’s “Two Scoops of Raisins”
One: (CTI 1974)
• “Feel Like Making Love”
  • Common’s “I Want You”
Bobbi Humphrey
Blacks & Blues: (Blue Note 1973)
• “Harlem River Drive”
  • Common’s “Just in the. . .”
Dig This!: (Blue Note 1972)
• “Smiling Faces Sometimes”
  • Common’s “Puppy Chow”
Bobby Caldwell
Cat in the Hat: (Clouds 1982)
• “Open Your Eyes”
  • Common’s “The Light”
Brian's Oblivion Express Auger
Streetnoise: (Atco 1969)
• “Light My Fire”
  • Common’s “The Bitch in You”
Cannonball Adderley (Quintet)
Music, You All: (Capitol 1976)
• “Capricorn”
  • Common’s “WMOE”
Ceasar Frazier
Caeser Frazier 75: (Westbound 1975)
• “Sweet Children”
  • Common’s “Real People”
Chi-Lites
A Letter To Myself: (Brunswick 1973)
• “I Never Had It So Good (And Felt So Bad)”
  • Common’s “The Food (live)”
Clyde McPhatter
Welcome Home: (Decca 1970)
• “Mixed up Cup” (Drums)
  • Common’s “In My Own World”
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
Greatest Hits: (United Artists 1976)
• “Since I Found My Baby”
  • Common’s “Chi-City”
Curtis Mayfield
Curtis: (Curtom 1970)
• “The Other Side of Town”
  • Common ft. Little Herb & Cocaine 80's’s “The Neighborhood”
D.J. Rogers
It's Good To Be Alive: (RCA 1976)
• “Faithful to the End”
  • Common’s “Faithful”
David Axelrod
Earth Rot: (Capitol 1970)
• “The Signs pt II”
  • Common’s “Resurrection”
DeBarge
All this Love: (Gordy 1982)
• “I Like It”
  • Common’s “Soul by the Pound”
Detroit Emeralds
Detroit Emeralds: (Westbound 1973)
• “You're Getting a Little too Smart” (Drums)
  • Common’s “The Light”
DJ Grand Wizard Theodore
Wild Style soundtrack: (Animal/Chrysalis 1983)
• “Gangbuster”
  • Common ft. De la Soul’s “Gettin down at the Amphitheatre”
  • Common ft. De la Soul’s “Gettin' Down at the Amphitheater”
Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
Different Strokes for Different Folks: (Janus 1970)
• “If There's a Will, There's a Way”
  • Common’s “Southside”
Donald Byrd
Black Jack: (Blue Note 1967)
• “Black Jack”
  • Common’s “Breaker 1/9”
Donny Hathaway
Donny Hathaway: (Atco 1970)
• “Giving Up”
  • Common ft. Lauryn Hill’s “Retrospect for Life”
• “Song for You”
  • Common ft. Lauryn Hill’s “Retrospect for Life”
Earth, Wind & Fire
Power Light: (CBS 1982)
• “Side by Side”
  • Common’s “Charms Alarm”
Eddie Kendricks
Slick: (Tamla 1977)
• “Intimate Friends”
  • Common’s “A Penny for My Thoughts”
Elton John
Rock of the Westies: (Rocket 1975)
• “I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)”
  • Common’s “Dancing on the Weekends”
Family Stand
Chain: (Atlantic 1990)
• “Ghetto Heaven”
  • Common’s “Ghetto Heaven”
  • Common ft. D'Angelo’s “Geto Heaven, Part Two”
Fela Kuti
Expensive Shit: (? 1975)
• “Water Get No Enemy”
  • Common’s “Pop's Rap Part Three (All My Children)”
Five Stairsteps
Love's Happening: (Curtom 1968)
• “Don't Change Your Love” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Charms Alarm”
Franck Pourcel
Somewhere My Love: (Imperial ?)
• “Je L'Aime”
  • Common’s “Stolen Moment 2”
Freddie Hubbard
Keep Your Soul Together: (CTI 1972)
• “Brigitte”
  • Common’s “Communism”
Funkadelic
Funkadelic: (Westbound 1970)
• “Good Ole Music” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Tricks up My Sleeve”
• “I Bet You” (Drums)
  • Common’s “A Penny for My Thoughts”
Gary Burton (Quartet)
Good Vibes: (Atlantic 1970)
• “Las Vegas Tango”
  • Common’s “Resurrection Interlude”
• “Leroy the Magician” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Nothing to Do”
George Benson
Bad Benson: (CTI 1974)
• “The Changing World”
  • Common’s “I Used to Love H.E.R.”
Breezin': (Warner Bros 1976)
• “Breezin'”
  • Common’s “Take it Ez”
Gwen McCrae
Rockin' Chair: (Cat 1975)
• “90% of Me is You”
  • Common’s “Stolen Moments pt. I”
Harold & The Blue Notes Melvin
Wake up Everybody: (Columbia 1975)
• “Wake Up Everybody”
  • Common’s “The Food”
• “You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good”
  • Common’s “Food”
Headhunters
Survival of the Fittest: (Arista 1975)
• “God Made Me Funky” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Pitchin' Pennies”
Honey Cone
Love, Peace, & Soul: (Hot Wax 1972)
• “Innocent 'till Proven Guilty”
  • Common’s “Testify”
Honey Drippers
single: (Alaga 1973)
• “Impeach the President” (Drums) ► YouTube
  • Common’s “No Defense”
Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen
Two Rainbows Daily: (Red 1980)
• “Morning Order”
  • Common’s “Nag Champa (Afrodesiac for the World)”
Intruders
Save the Children: (Philadelphia International 1973)
• “Memories Are Here To Stay”
  • Common’s “The 6th Sense”
Isley Brothers
Between the Sheets: (T-Neck 1983)
• “Between the Sheets”
  • Common’s “Breaker 1/9”
The Heat is On: (T-Neck 1975)
• “For the Love of You”
  • Common’s “Puppy Chow”
James Brown
The Payback: (Polydor 1974)
• “The Payback” (Intro)
  • Common’s “Payback is a Grandmother”
Jimmy Ponder
Illusions: (ABC Impulse 1976)
• “Jennifer”
  • Common’s “Invocation”
Joe Farrell
Upon this Rock: (CTI 1974)
• “Upon this Rock” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Chi-City”
Joe Tex
Live and Lively: (Atlantic 1968)
• “Papa Was Too” (Live)
  • Common’s “No Defense”
  • Common’s “Two Scoops of Raisins”
John Dankworth
Off Duty: (Fontana 1969)
• “Bernie's Tune”
  • Common’s “Car Horn”
Keni Burke
Changes: (RCA 1982)
• “Risin' to the Top”
  • Common ft. Sean Lett’s “(Lately) I've Been Thinking”
Kenneth Jenkins
Dba: Success: (Pacific Arts ?)
• “Samba Dis, Samba Dat”
  • Common’s “Like They Used to Say”
Lamont Dozier
Out Here on My Own: (ABC 1974)
• “Trying to Hold on to My Woman”
  • Common’s “The Light 2008”
Lee Dorsey
The New Lee Dorsey: (Amy 1966)
• “Get out of My Life, Woman” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Breaker 1/9”
Lowrell
Lowrell: (AVI 1979)
• “Mellow Mellow Right On”
  • Common ft. Chantay Savage’s “Reminding Me (Of Sef)”
Madonna
Madonna: (Sire 1983)
• “Holiday”
  • Common’s “Holiday in Your Hood”
Manhattans
Love Talk: (Columbia 1979)
• “Devil in the Dark”
  • Common’s “1-9-9-9 (Soul Supreme's Remix)”
Melvin Van Peebles
?: (Atlantic 1974)
• “Superstition”
  • Common’s “Stolen Moments pt. III”
Micheal White's Magic Music Company
Go with the Flow: (ABC 1974)
• “Go with the Flow”
  • Common’s “Can I Borrow a Dollar”
Minnie Riperton
Adventures in Paradise: (Epic 1975)
• “Baby, this Love I Have”
  • Common’s “I Want You”
Mtume
Juicy Fruit: (Epic 1983)
• “Juicy Fruit” (Intro)
  • Common’s “Charms Alarm”
Parliament
The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein: (Casablanca 1976)
• “Funkin' for Fun”
  • Common’s “Cold Blooded”
Patrice Rushen
Straight from the Heart: (Elektra/Asylum 1982)
• “Remind Me”
  • Common ft. Chantay Savage’s “Reminding Me (Of Sef)”
Paul McCartney (& Wings)
McCartney: (Apple 1970)
• “Momma Miss America” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Pop's Rap”
  • Common’s “This is Me”
Paul Simon
Still Crazy after All These Years: (Columbia 1975)
• “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”
  • Common’s “Forever Begins”
Power of Zeus
Gospel according to Zeus: (Rare Earth 1970)
• “Sorcerer of Isis” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Resurrection”
Quincy Jones
$: (Warner Bros 1972)
• “Snow Creatures”
  • Common’s “Tricks up My Sleeve”
R. A. M. P. (Roy Ayers Music Project)
Come into My Knowledge: (Blue Thumb 1977)
• “Daylight”
  • Common’s “Come Close (Remix)”
Rasa
Everything You See is Me: (Gonvida 1978)
• “When the Day Will Come”
  • Common’s “Take it Ez”
Rotary Connection
Rotary Connection: (Cadet 1967)
• “Memory Band”
  • Common’s “Come Close (Remix)”
Roy Ayers (Ubiquity)
Everybody Loves the Sunshine: (Polydor 1976)
• “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”
  • Common’s “Book of Life”
Mystic Voyage: (Polydor 1975)
• “The Black Five”
  • Common’s “1 2 Many”
Sam Cooke
Mr. Soul: (? 1963)
• “Nothing Can Change This Love”
  • Common’s “The Food”
Spirit
Clear: (Epic 1969)
• “Ice”
  • Common’s “Resurrection”
  • Common’s “Resurrection (Extra P REMIX)”
Stanley Clarke
Modern Man: (CBS/Epic 1978)
• “Slow Dance” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Tricks up My Sleeve”
Steve Band Miller
Fly Like an Eagle: (Capitol 1976)
• “Space Intro”
  • Common’s “Cold Blooded”
Stevie Wonder
Where I'm Coming From: (Motown 1971)
• “Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer”
  • Common ft. Lauryn Hill’s “Retrospect for Life”
Surprize
Keep On Truckin': (East Coast Records 1972)
• “Sweet Love” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Making a Name for Ourselves”
Temptations
Solid Rock: (Gordy 1972)
• “What it Is”
  • Common’s “The Corners”
The 3 Degrees
. . . And Holding: (Ichiban 1989)
• “Make it Easy on Yourself”
  • Kanye West ft. Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, Common, and Rhymefest’s “We Can Make It Better”
The New Apocalypse
Stainless Soul: (MTA 1969)
• “Get out of My Life, Woman” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Watermelon”
The Temprees
Love Maze: (We Produce 1974)
• “You Make the Sun Shine”
  • Common’s “The Corners”
Tom Scott
Tom Scott & the LA Express: (Ode 1974)
• “Sneakin' in the Back” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Soul by the Pound”
Whatnauts
single: (Harlem International 1981)
• “Help is on the Way”
  • Common’s “Resurrection”
Whatnaughts on the Rocks: (Stang 1974)
• “Why Can't People Be Colors Too?” (Drums)
  • Common’s “Resurrection”