Throughout the song, there are references to other "rap songs" such as OutKast's "Elevators (Me & You)", 50 Cent's "In Da Club", N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton", Lil Wayne's "A Milli" and Soulja Boy's club hit "Donk".
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According to Vahid Mustafayev, president of the Azerbaijan News Service, "Yesterday is Past" was the first Azeri rap song, created in 1983 by Chingiz Mustafayev, who would later become Azerbaijan's national hero for unrelated reasons.
Most of the time the term "bass song" alludes to a hip hop or rap song, but there are also reggae, techno, dubstep and other electronic songs that fall under this category.
"Dirt Road Anthem" is the title of a country rap song written by American artists Colt Ford and Brantley Gilbert (who also wrote Aldean's hit "My Kinda Party"), each of whom recorded his own version of the song.
On a separate note, in 2012, a number of lines and quotes from the film were sampled into the rap song "Fair Fight" performed by the group Strong Arm Steady, alongside a sampled quote from Chris Rock's Never Scared comedy show.
The track references the 1994 single "I Used to Love H.E.R.," a classic rap song which tragically personified Hip-hop as a woman and former love interest, made by West's label mate Common.
He started out by collaborating with fellow YouTuber Randolph, doing a viral rap song about Emile Heskey which was released on iTunes just before Christmas (but too late to chart) in 2011, and has a video of Heskey missing various chances on FIFA, before doing this on a segment of his channel called "Football Rap Battles", a video series which follows a similar vein to Epic Rap Battles of History.
In 2006, Piet Hein Donner recorded a rap song together with Meester G to explain his point of view on the Dutch soft-drug policy.
Rais Lebled (Head of State) is a political rap song, released in December 2010 by Tunisian rapper El Général, which has been referred to internationally as the "anthem of the Jasmine Revolution".
Bridgmohan was mentioned in the rap song "Fake Patois" by Das Racist, with the line "What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan?/What you know about Shaun Bridgmohan?/First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby./First Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby."
He quickly gained popularity with his freestyle Hindi rap song "India Against Corruption" with his independent album, KORRUPT, which hit the Top 10 on Indian Music Chartbuster.