Get the latest gossip

11 Rap Songs That Sample Ellie Goulding

Rap songs that sample Ellie Goulding include tracks by Future & Metro Boomin, Drake, Young Thug, Lil Baby, Big Sean and French Montana.

Drake famously sampled the two-time Grammy-nominated artist’s “Don’t Say a Word” on the Jay-Z-assisted “Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2,” which she pointed out in a 2020 TikTok video. And her backwards intros (think Missy Elliott’s “Work It”) from “Hanging On” and “Starry Eyed” are fascinating to follow along to in “Mile High Memories” and “I Know” by French Montana, featuring Chinx. Lupe Fiasco ‘s “Lightwork” from his 2011 mixtape Friend of the People: I Fight Evil samples the Bassnectar remix of Goulding’s “Lights.” The Chicago rapper lifts her luminescent first verse and chorus for the first part of his track.

Get the Android app