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Sugar Hill Gang  - The Sugarhill Gang gets credit for having the first rap song to reach the Top 40 on the U.S. Billboard charts. However, their reach and influence in hip hop goes even further than that. In loving memory of Big Bank Hank (center), who passed away this morning, we've listed a few rappers, moments and songs that have borrowed samples, lines and flat out remade music by The Sugarhill Gang. (Photo: Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)

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Pitbull  - In Pitbull's "Hotel Room Service," he says, "We at the hotel, motel, Holiday Inn" (at the :54 mark). It's a line borrowed frm The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," on which Big Bank Hank raps, "Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn/If your girl starts acting up, then you take her friend."   (Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for T.J. Martell Foundation)

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Dr. Dre  - On Dr. Dre's The Chronic 2001, there's a song entitled "Housewife" which features Kurupt and Hitman. At the 2:21 mark, you can hear the popular "hotel, motel, Holday Inn" line once again. 

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Left Eye  - Even Left Eye got in on the "hotel, motel, Holiday Inn" fun on "Switch." She just tailored her line for women whose men are acting up. Listen for it at the 2:30 mark.  (Photo: Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect)

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Kurtis Blow  - You can hear samples from "Rapper's Delight" — which actually samples Chic's 1979 disco hit "Good Times" —throughout Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks." (Photo: Brian Ach/Getty Images for Art For Life Gala)

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Busta Rhymes  - Remember when Busta Rhymes declared, "When I step up in the place/A-yo I step correct!/Woo hah!!/I gotcha all in check!" on his 1996 solo debut single, "Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check"? Well, take a listen to The Sugarhill Gang's "8th Wonder," where, at the 1:51 mark, you'll hear, "See it's up my back/It's around my neck/Woo hah, got them all in check!" (Photo : Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Bud Light)

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Jam on It!  - This classic moment from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air will live on forever. Will and Carlton's dance wouldn't have been possible had it not been for the perfect musical stylings of The Sugarhill Gang's "Apache (Jump on It)." This moment will never not be amusing.   (Photo: NBC)

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50 Cent  - Seven seconds in to 50 Cent's "Gangsta's Delight," and throughout the song, he says, "This is hip hop/It go clip pop/It hit em if ya hit me/Da clip pop it popped and it don't stop," utilizing the same cadence as "Hip hop, the hippy to the hippy to the/Hip hop and you don't stop the rocking."  (Photo: Interscope) 

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Def Squad  - Erick Sermon, Keith Murray and Redman, collectively known as Def Squad, straight up remade "Rapper's Delight." They added their own touch, of course.  (Photo: Def Jam Recordings)

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Xanadu and Sweet Lady  - On the more obscure side of music, Jamaica's own Xanadu and Sweet Lady remade "Rapper's Delight" in 1979, givng it a woman's touch.  (Photo: Joe Gibbs Music Records)

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Grandmaster Caz  - Old school rapper Granmaster Caz also made his own version of "Rapper's Delight" in 2000, and of course, he added some Cold Crush flavor.  (Photo: REUTERS /LUCAS JACKSON /LANDOV)