Many major rappers and producers, including Jaylib, Talib Kweli, Guerilla Black, Ghostface Killah, and Slum Village have sampled Gap's Diana in the Autumn Wind for their recent works.

Rapper and producer, Raz Fresco sampled a clip from the movie in his music video for the song Filmore Slim.

In 2005, Dutch producer and DJ Ferry Corsten sampled this track for his single "Fire", which is credited as "Ferry Corsten featuring Simon Le Bon"

These are not hip-hop songs but the original soul, rock, and funk songs that b-boys first danced to and producers later sampled.

Initially, producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk from the Caribbean, and also semba from Angola and laid this around a fast 4/4 beat.

The producer had sampled Torn's Cloud About Mercury album and, when Madonna found out, she had Torn added to the credits.

In other segments the program's co-executive producer, Bill Geddie, sampled a Campbell's "soup of the day" on camera.

"No Line on the Horizon" stemmed from drummer Larry Mullen Jr. experimenting with several different drum beats; producer and co-writer Brian Eno sampled and manipulated the patterns, and the rest of the band began to play over it.