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Who sampled Under Pressure?

Queen and Bowie wrote the bassline. Vanilla Ice found it.

Under Pressure · Queen & David Bowie, 1981

What it became

  • Sampled by Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice). The hook is the Under Pressure bassline. Queen and Bowie got no credit or royalties until it was already a hit. Source: Wikipedia: Ice Ice Baby

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