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". Rap rock band Hed PE's songs "Crazy Legs" and "Murder" both have references to the song. The hook of The Notorious B.I.G.'s song "Hypnotize" interpolates Slick Rick's lyrics: "Ricky Ricky Ricky, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me, and I just love your jazzy ways, oh MC Rick my love is here to stay", changing them to "Biggie Biggie Biggie, can't you see? Somehow your words just hypnotize me, and I just love your flashy ways, I guess that's why they're broke and you're so paid." Ini Kamoze samples the words "hit it" in his song “Here Comes The Hotstepper”. 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". Ludacris's verse on Jennifer Hudson's song "Pocketbook" from her self-titled album: "Baby because tonight is da night/And when we rock upon the mic we rock the mic right". Will Smith's song "So Fresh" from his 1999 album Willennium samples this at the end of the song. De La Soul samples the word "emcee" in the song "Supa Emcees" on their album Stakes Is High. They also sampled the phrase "I can't be your lover" as a running gag in several tracks on their album De La Soul Is Dead, including