'80s Rewind: Rap Songs That Sample Hits From the 1980s

Tunes from Wiz Khalifa, Nicki Minaj, J. Cole and more.

The Notorious B.I.G., Featuring Faith Evans and Puff Daddy, "One More Chance (Remix)" / Debarge, "Stay With Me" - B.I.G. scored a No. 1 rap single with the help of his wife, Faith Evans, and Diddy in 1995 when he spit over DeBarge's classic "Stay With Me."(Photos from left: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images, David Corio/Redferns)
Lost Boyz, "Renee" - In one of the best examples of hip hop storytelling in a singular song, the Lost Boyz give life to an around-the-way princess named Renee. Though the narration of simultaneous hope and despair ends in tragedy, it makes it all the more poignant in the delivery of its lesson: "Ghetto love is the law that we live by."(Photo: Uptown Records)
Nelly, Featuring Kelly Rowland, "Dilemma" / Patti LaBelle, "Love, Need and Want You" - Nelly and Kelly flipped Patti LaBelle's 1983 smash "Love, Need and Want You" in 2002 for their No. 1 hit "Dilemma." And in the video, Patti played Kelly's mother. (Photo : Frank Micelotta/Getty Images)
Snoop Dogg, "Gin and Juice" / Slave, "Watching You" - Dr. Dre went in his funk trunk and busted out Slave's 1980 smash "Watching You" to get "Gin and Juice," a Top 10 for Snoop. (Photo: Rick Diamond/BET/Getty Images for BET)"Ten Crack Commandments," Notorious B.I.G. - On his biggest selling LP, 1997's Life After Death, the Notorious B.I.G. both sold and told the game when he issued this hit single, which explicitly laid out the rules of crack dealing. That the song came out during the waning days of the drug's popularity didn't lessen the song's power, or humor.   (Photo: Chris Walter/WireImage)

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Lost Boyz, "Renee (One Dread One Ball Head Remix)" / Janet Jackson, "Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)" - The Lost Boyz, led by Mr. Cheeks, gave their rendition of "Black Girl Lost" in this tragic ghetto love story over a backing featured on the Nasty Girl's third album, Control, in 1996.(Photo: Uptown Records)

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