Friends (Whodini song)

"Friends" (1984)

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"Friends" is a song by the American hip-hop group Whodini. The song reached #4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

• Public Enemy sampled the drum beat for their song "Sophisticated Bitch" from their first album.
• The song was interpolated in Nas' song "If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)" from his 1996 album It Was Written.
• Dr. Dre sampled the track for "A Nigga Witta Gun" from the 1992 album The Chronic.
• The song was sampled on the Nickelodeon sitcom Taina on the song "Thought that we were friends", sung by Christina Vidal who played the title character.
• The song was also sampled by Will Smith for the track "Potnas" on his 1999 album Willennium.
• MF Doom sampled it for the track "Deep Fried Frenz" on his 2004 album Mm...Food.
• Bad Azz sampled it for the track "Ghetto Star" for his 1998 debut album Word On Tha Streets.
• 2Pac sampled it for the track "Troublesome '96" from his posthumous Greatest Hits album.
• 213 sampled it in their debut song "Friends" from member Nate Dogg's 1998 album G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2.
• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony sampled it in their song "Friends" (renamed to "How Many of Us Have Them" on some releases) on their 1997 album The Art of War.
• Kendrick Lamar sampled the song in "wacced out murals," the first track of his 2024 album GNX.

The song was also used in a commercial for Corona Extra in 2023, which featured Snoop Dogg and Bad Bunny.

• Genius: Friends - Lyrics