15 Best Samples of Quincy Jones’ Music, From Kanye West to the Weeknd to Harry Styles

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Todd Gilchrist editor With his death Nov. 4 at age 91, late composer, performer, bandleader and producer Quincy Jones leaves behind an enormous body of work — over 70 years of albums, film scores and other collaborations.

Unsurprisingly, that work was heavily sampled in the last four decades of his life, providing a spectacular variety of cues, melodies and more that songwriters and producers interpolated into next-generation classics.

Among the more than 3,600 samples that website Whosampled reports were taken from his compositions, Variety has assembled 15 of the most memorable songs sampling Quincy Jones’ music. The Pharcyde, “Passin’ Me By” (1993) This Southern California quartet certainly wasn’t the first rap group to be vulnerable on wax, but this lead single from 1994’s “Bizarre Ryde II the Pharcyde” helped amplify the more introspective paths forged by Native Tongues predecessors like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest with four depressingly relatable chronicles of love lost.

Pairing Jones’ cover of “Summer In the City” with the backward percussion from Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?,” producer J-Swift created a timeless heartbreak anthem that was used as the hook for Joe’s remix of “Stutter,” featuring Mystikal, seven years later.