13 Rap Songs That Sample Tame Impala

Don Toliver sampled “One More Hour” from Tame Impala’s 2020 album The Slow Rush on his “Bandit” single off his 2024 album Hardstone Psycho. Producer ReidMD pitched up and looped the “I did it for love” vocal and menacing bass riffs from “One More Hour” throughout “Bandit,” which became Toliver’s first top 10 on Hot Rap Songs and reached the top 10 on Rhythmic Airplay.

Kid Cudi’s also sampled “One More Hour” from The Slow Rush on “HUMAN MADE” from his 2024 album INSANO. The staccato chord progression and bass riffs of “One More Hour,” with a pinch of Parker’s atmospheric ad-libs, serve as the core instrumental elements of “HUMAN MADE.”

Rich Amiri lifted “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” from Currents on “SAME OLD ME” from his 2024 album War Ready. The woozy synth- and sitar-driven instrumental of “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” received a new trap update on “SAME OLD ME.”

LISA of BLACKPINK also interpolated “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” from Currents on “Rockstar,” the 2024 lead single from her 2025 debut album Alter Ego. Producers Ryan Tedder and Sam Homaee slowed down and looped a replaying of the twinkling synth chords and bouncy bassline from “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” over the post-chorus and outro of “Rockstar,” which became her first No. 1 on Billboard Global Excl. U.S.

Mak Sauce and Lil Yachty sampled “The Less I Know The Better” from Currents on their 2021 single “Wocky My Lover.” Producers Cash Cobain and DJ Updoe looped the funky bassline of “The Less I Know The Better” (and gave it a drill makeover) on the first half of “Wocky My Lover.” “The Less I Know The Better” is the streaming smash of Currents, remaining the band’s highest-streamed song on Spotify with over two billion. It also reached the top 40 of Hot Rock & Alternative Songs.

The following year, Yachty remixed “Breathe Deeper” from The Slow Rush and released his own psychedelic rock album Let’s Start Here in 2023. “It was so amazing to work with Kevin as I’ve been a big fan since high school so it was a pleasant surprise and honor to be a part of such an incredible song,” Yachty said in a statement about his “Breathe Deeper” remix.

Kid Cudi sampled “Love/Paranoia” from Currents on “Dive” from his 2020 album Man On The Moon III: The Chosen. The “But it hit me like an arrow/ Babe, to know, I could just be paranoid” line from the first verse of “Love/Paranoia” is pitched down and looped throughout “Dive.”

A$AP Rocky sampled “Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind?” from Tame Impala’s 2010 album Innerspeaker on his 2018 single “Sundress.” The trance-inducing electric guitar loop and titillating hi-hats from “Why Don’t You Make Up Your Mind” underscore “Sundress.” Tame Impala brought out Rocky to perform “Sundress” and “L$D” during the act’s weekend two headlining performance at Coachella in 2018.

Maxo Kream sampled “Reality in Motion” from Currents on “Pop Another” from his 2018 album Punken. He lifted the pre-chorus and first couple of lines from the chorus of “Reality in Motion” — “What will I do?/ I never had a chance to/ There’s no one else around you/ I never had a chance to/ There’s no one else around you” — for the intro of “Pop Another” and chopped up those lines and interspersed them throughout his track.

Teddy Walton and Dom Kennedy sampled “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” from Currents on the “Mental Health” title track of Walton’s 2017 EP. Walton slowed and pitched down the bassline and chopped up lines from the chorus of “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” — “Feel like a brand-new person/ But you’ll make the same old mistakes/ Well, I don’t care, I’m in love/…. Stop thinking that the only option was” — on “Mental Health.” Walton counts Tame Impala as one of his main influences.

$uicideboy$ sampled “The Less I Know The Better” from Currents on “If You Were to Get What You Deserve, You Would Know What the Bottom of a Tire Tastes Like” from its 2016 album I No Longer Fear the Razor Guarding My Heel (III). The hip-hop duo borrowed the “Oh, my love, can’t you see yourself by my side?” line from the chorus of “The Less I Know The Better” and sprinkled it a few times throughout its track, while $lick $loth interpolated the titular line in his first verse: “I say the less you know the better, that West Bank fire-setter.”

Kendrick Lamar sampled the chorus of “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” from Tame Impala’s 2012 album Lonerism — “Only go backwards lately/ Every part of me says, ‘Go ahead’/ I got my hopes up again, oh no, not again/ Feels like we only go backwards, darling” — on “Backwards” from the Divergent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in 2014.

A$AP Rocky slowed down “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” from Lonerism for “Unicorn” in 2014 from his unreleased instrumental album Beauty and the Beast: Slowed Down Sessions, Chapter 1. In his five-part Noisey documentary SVDDXNLY, Rocky explained that the album is “how music is supposed to sound” and will “bring it back to that first time you got high.”

G-Side sampled “Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind?” from Innerspeaker on “Gettin’ It,” featuring Stalley and Joi Tiffany, from its 2011 album Island. The hypnotic electric guitar loop from “Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind?” underscores “Gettin’ It.”