Artist	Song
The Sugarhill Gang	Rapper's Delight
from Rhino Hi-Five: The Sugarhill Gang - EP (2005)
Michael Jackson	Workin' Day and Night
from Off the Wall (1983)
The O'Jays	For the Love of Money
from Ship Ahoy (2003)
MC Hammer	U Can'T Touch This
from Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (1990)
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince	Summertime
from Platinum & Gold Collection: D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (2003)
Kraftwerk	Tour de France
from Tour de France (Remastered) (2009)
Cybotron	Clear
from Clear (2006)
Prince & The Revolution	Baby I'm a Star
from Purple Rain (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) (2007)
McFadden & Whitehead	Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
from Club Epic, Vol. 2 (1992)
Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five	White Lines (Long Version)
from The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five (2005)
Jazzy Jay & Russell Rush	Cold Chillin' in the Spot
from Def Jam Recordings Classics, Vol. 1 (1995)
Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby	Hikky Burr
from Smackwater Jack (2005)
Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s	Doing It to Death
from JB40 (40th Anniversary Collection) (1996)
Heavy D & The Boyz	We Got Our Own Thang
from Big Tyme (1989)
DeBarge	I Like It
from The Ultimate Collection: DeBarge (1997)

Comment:

We can't blame you for wondering how Sean John Combs became one simple word — [i]Diddy[/i]. That's why we've done our best to break down the makings of the man and his music, starting with his favorite Michael Jackson song: "Workin' Day and Night," a disco inferno that's been Diddy's unofficial theme song since he rose up the ranks of Uptown Records. Speaking of records that reveal Diddy's roots as a beat conductor and businessman, "Cold Chillin' in the Spot" pairs the boom-bap breaks of Jazzy Jay with the chest-puffin' vocals of Def Jam cofounder Russell Simmons. As for Diddy's tendency to treat samples like taffy, MC Hammer used the same technique to sell more than 500,000 copies of "U Can't Touch This," an absolute [i]smash[/i] that won two GRAMMY® Awards and topped the R&B/Hip-Hop chart on the back of Rick James' decade-old "Super Freak" beat. And that's just the start of what Diddy's bumped on his own personal stereo. He's also absorbed everything from the break-dance-ready electro blueprints of Kraftwerk and Cybotron, to the old-school rap of Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang.

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