"La Di Da Di" has gained a reputation for consistently being
sampled and referenced by many artists. The line, "Hit it!" for example, has appeared in songs like
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock's
"It Takes Two",
Ludacris and
Mary J. Blige's "
Runaway Love,"
Beastie Boys' "
Hold It Now, Hit It,"
N.W.A.'s "
Gangsta Gangsta",
Naughty by Nature's "
O.P.P.", and
Ini Kamoze's "
Here Comes the Hotstepper." The line, "We like to party" has appeared in such songs as
Vengaboys' "
We Like to Party",
Miley Cyrus' "
We Can't Stop", and
Beyoncé's "
Party" (not to mention Slick Rick's own later songs “
Hey Young World”, "
The Ruler's Back", and "Children's Story"). Slick Rick's lyrics have been
interpolated in several songs. Namely "Lost Souls" by
2Pac and
Outlawz; "Shyne" by
Shyne featuring
Mashonda; "
4 All Y'all" by
Conspirituality; "You're Welcome" by
Jay-Z and
Mary J. Blige. The following is a list of other songs that referenced "La Di Da Di": •
Gucci Crew II parodied the song in their 1989 song "Fuddy Duddy": "Fuddy duddy, we hates to study. We don't bother people when we eat our Nutty Buddys." •
A Tribe Called Quest sampled the song on their penultimate album
The Love Movement on the track "The Love". •
Spice 1's song "Strap on The Side" says the line, La di da di, I shot up his body". •
InI &
Pete Rock in their collaborative song "
Think Twice" use a line saying "Throw a phat party and invite everybody, and play all the old school hits like La Di Da Di". •
ADOR's song "From the Concrete" says the line, "Slam the child on the hard concrete" in the hook. •
Robbie Williams's song "
Rock DJ" borrows the line "and when we rock the mic, we rock the mic" with the high-pitched "right!" •
DJ Premier sampled the song for
Big Daddy Kane's song "
Show & Prove". •
Mos Def's song "Perfect Timing" (from
True Magic) repeats the line "'cause this type of shit happens every day". •
Jim's Big Ego's song "Feelin' Groovy" contains a rap section, much of which is slightly altered "La Di Da Di" lyrics, including the title. • The end of the hook of
The Black Eyed Peas song "
Don't Lie" samples the words "stop lyin'". • The intro to the
Ludacris and
Mary J. Blige song "
Runaway Love" samples the beginning of "La Di Da Di" by
scratching the two words "like this". In 2003, she also used the song's line "You're about witness... before" as a prelude to "Hip Hop Star" during her
Dangerously in Love Tour. The performance appeared on the 2004 DVD,
Live at Wembley. •
Slick Rick quotes the song title after a line in a
Mos Def song ("Auditorium" from
The Ecstatic), which features him: "Walk over kicked, one of my fabulous raps (la di da di)". •
DJ Honda samples "La Di Da Di" into "
On The Mic", an underground hip-hop posse cut featuring verses from
Cuban Link,
JuJu, A.L. (All Lyrics) and Missin' Linx (Al' Tariq, Problemz and Black Attack). In addition, Cuban raps "La di da di, we love to party, we always cause trouble when we guzzle Bacardi" in the song's chorus. •
Earl Sweatshirt in the song "Oldie" on
The OF Tape Vol. 2 raps "La di da di, back in here to fuck the party up" •
J. Cole borrows a verse and uses the expression "La Di Da Di" in his featured appearance on
Beyoncé's "
Party". •
Hi-C samples the line "And with your wrinkled pussy, I can't be your lover" in "
I'm Not Your Puppet". •
50 Cent in his song "
I'm On It": "La Di Da Di, we like to party". •
Tech N9ne references the song in his song "
Dysfunctional": "La di da di, La-di-da-di, I'm at the party, On a drunk night with a punk, might dudes tryin' to pick a fight because he's sorry." •
Miley Cyrus references the song in the chorus of her 2013 single "
We Can't Stop": "La da di da di, we like to party..." •
Die Antwoord references the song in their song "
Happy Go Sucky Fucky" on their 2014 album
Donker Mag: "La di da di, yo we party." •
Tyler the Creator references the song in his song "Deathcamp" on his 2015 album
Cherry Bomb: "La-di-da-di, I'm going harder than coming out the closet to conservative Christian fathers." •
Kid Ink references the song in his song "
Be Real" on his 2015 album
Full Speed: "Roll up good Cali, la di da di." •
Redfoo references the song in his 2013 single "
Let's Get Ridiculous": "I'm fresh, I'm slick, I'm la di da di." •
Fun Lovin' Criminals reference the song in
Come Find Yourself's "King of New York": "La di da di, free John Gotti, the King of New York, the King of New York!" •
Iggy Azalea also references the line "Ricky, Ricky, Ricky, can't you see, somehow your words just hypnotize me" in her song "
Beg For It" featuring
MØ changing the lyrics to: "Iggy, Iggy, Iggy, can't you see, that everybody wanna put their hands on me". • In the
Gorillaz's original version of "
Clint Eastwood" with
Phi Life Cypher, the word "Concrete (concrete, concrete)" is repeated at the end of one verse. This is likely an allusion to the line "Slam the child on the hard concrete" from "La Di Da Di". •
Future referenced the title of the song twice in "
King's Dead", which also features
Jay Rock,
Kendrick Lamar, and
James Blake: "La di da di da, slob on me knob...La di da di da, motherfuck the law." His verse also references the track "
Slob on My Knob", by
Tear Da Club Up Thugs, a side-project of
Three 6 Mafia. •
BigBang references the song in their 2008 song "
How Gee": "La di da di, we came to party" • The
GD & TOP song "
High High" contains a sample of "La Di Da Di" •
Mindless Self Indulgence covered "La Di Da Di" for a bonus track on their 2005 album "
You'll Rebel to Anything" •
2NE1 in their 2010 song "
Can't Nobody" references the line: "콧노래 Ladi dadi" •
Atmosphere in their 2001 song "Like Today"
Slug says he is "Fresh, dressed like fifty cents" in reference to Slick Rick's "Fresh, dressed like a million bucks." •
Psy references the song in his song "Year of 77 (77학 개론)" on his 2012 EP
Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1 •
BTS references the song in their 2017 song "
Mic Drop": "La di da di, 아 너무 바빠." •
Will Smith's beatboxing scene in the film
Men in Black II (his beatboxing answer of Booo's answer) samples the beatboxing outro of this song. •
The Coup referenced the line "fresh, dressed, like a million bucks" in their song "Fat Cats, Bigga Fish" from the 1994 album
Genocide & Juice. •
Sublime samples the line "I'm feeling sad and blue" in their song "April 29, 1992" •
Onyx sampled the line "So listen close to what we say, because this type of shit happens everyday" to "Just listen up to what I say, the feds get shot daily, everyday" off their song
Live Niguz. • The
USA Network reality show
Peter Perfect, S2:E7 "Brewing Up Success" (2009), featured a makeover of a children's tea party event space in Ohio called "La Tea Dolly (We Like Tea Party)." •
100 gecs referenced the song in the line "la di da di da di, all I wanna do is party" in their song "757" from the 2023 album
10,000 gecs. •
Nelly references the title of the song and Slick Rick himself during the second verse of his song, "
Body on Me" featuring
Akon and
Ashanti, when he sings "She's slicker than La Di Da Di..." In 2024, "La Di Da Di" was selected for preservation in the United States
National Recording Registry by the
Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ==References==