Would like examples of songs that pay lyrical homage to other songs.?

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...not by actually sampling the other song's recording, but by quoting parts of the other song's lyric into their own for a line or two, just as a reference/homage.   So this would exclude quasi-remakes like Puff Daddy's "I'll Be Missing You" or that recent Black Eyed Peas song that take choruses of other songs wholesale, or songs that merely make mention of the titles of other songs.

Thanks in advance!

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Right now all I can think of is the bit from Soul Makosa in Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music" (though that was more likely a reference to Michael Jackson).

Edit: "Hotel Room Service" by Pitbull references "Rapper's Delight" ("We at the motel, hotel, Holiday Inn"). "Asereje" by Las Ketchup also references "Rapper's Delight" in the chorus.
Edit II: Apparenty, "Hotel Room Service" references a TON of stuff, based on the Wikipedia page. Link below.

Glum Beck · Answer

[Verse 3]
Helter skelter in a summer swelter
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass
The players tried for a forward pass
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast

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Would like examples of songs that pay lyrical homage to other songs.?

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