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\n\t\u201cMile High Memories\u201d from Future<\/a> and Metro Boomin<\/a>\u2018s latest album We Still Don\u2019t Trust You <\/em>evoked an unexpected memory from pop music: The song contains a sample of Ellie Goulding<\/a>\u2018s 2012 track \u201cHanging On.\u201d And it\u2019s far from the only rap song to sample the English electro-pop singer-songwriter. <\/p>\n \n\tDrake<\/a> famously sampled the two-time Grammy-nominated artist\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Say a Word\u201d on the Jay-Z<\/a>-assisted \u201cPound Cake \/ Paris Morton Music 2,\u201d which she pointed out in a 2020 TikTok video<\/a>. Her covers of Active Child<\/a>\u2018s \u201cHanging On\u201d and The Weeknd<\/a>\u2018s \u201cHigh For This,\u201d the latter of which is sampled on Soulja Boy<\/a>\u2018s \u201cRockstar,\u201d have extended the original songs\u2019 histories and brought them to new genre territories. And her backwards intros (think Missy Elliott\u2019s \u201cWork It\u201d) from \u201cHanging On\u201d and \u201cStarry Eyed\u201d are fascinating to follow along to in \u201cMile High Memories\u201d and \u201cI Know\u201d by French Montana<\/a>, featuring Chinx. <\/p>\n \n\tAn Ellie Goulding sample in rap music is so nice, Young Thug<\/a> had to use it twice. He and Rich Homie Quan<\/a> sampled \u201cBeating Heart\u201d on \u201cLove Me\u201d in August 2015, and one month later, Thug sampled \u201cHanging On\u201d on \u201cCalling Your Name.\u201d (\u201cHanging On\u201d got a remix from British rapper Tinie Tempah<\/a>.) And one MC\u2019s sampling history with EG led to an actual collaboration between the two: Goulding tapped Big Sean<\/a> for \u201cEasy Lover\u201d from her last studio album Higher Than Heaven <\/em>after he sampled \u201cFighter Plane\u201d on his song \u201cHigh,\u201d featuring Wiz Khalifa<\/a> and Chiddy Bang. <\/p>\n \n\tBillboard\u00a0<\/em>rounded up 11 rap songs that have sampled Ellie Goulding, in order of newest to oldest. <\/p>\n