Other Uses in Media
"Rapper's Delight" is featured in the video games MLB 2K10, Thrasher: Skate and Destroy, Scarface:_The_World_Is_Yours and Tony Hawk's Underground 2.
"Rapper's Delight" is also sampled in DJ Grand Wizard Theodore's Subway Theme.
In an episode of Scrubs the Sugar Hill Gang alarm clock JD gives Turk for a wedding present plays a modified "wake up" version of "Rapper's Delight", later it is played in Turk and Carla's new car.
In episode 22 of season 4, One Tree Hill used this song, as the only song that James Lucas Scott would stop fussing. It was then revealed that whenever Haley was sleeping, Nathan would play old school hip-hop to the womb.
Cole sang "Rapper's Delight" on an episode of Fox's Martin to audition for The Notorious B.I.G. before being thrown out of Martin's apartment.
On an episode of Living Single, the entire cast rapped one verse from "Rapper's Delight". Khadijah started with the line "have you ever been over a friend's house to eat..." before the rest of the cast joined in to finish the verse.
In the 1997 film The Pest (starring John Leguizamo), the lead character sings a rap to the tune.
In the 1998 feature film The Wedding Singer (starring Adam Sandler) in a clip towards the end, the elderly Rosie (played by Ellen Dow), whom Robbie (Sandler) has been teaching to sing, surprises everyone when she gets up on stage and starts performing this song.
The song is featured in Popular in the episode "The news of my death has been greatly exaggerated". Part of the cast sing the song at the beginning of the episode.
In 2002, Spanish group Las Ketchup parodied this song in the chorus of their hit "The Ketchup Song (Asereje)", which reached number one in the UK chart.
In 2003, the song appeared in the multi-award-winning Honda television advertisement Cog. Later that year, a rendition was used in a scene in from the film Kangaroo Jack. In July 2009, Evian Water used the song in their roller-skating baby commercial, "Evian's Roller Babies (Live Young)" which is especially popular on YouTube with over 3.7 million hits in a week. The song was produced by Dan the Automator and features Tim Carter, Chali 2na (of Jurassic 5) along with Casual and Domino (of Hieroglyphics). Tepr, Van She Tech and The Bewitched Hands on the Top of our Heads did the remix.
Throughout The Verve's 2008 tour dates, they frequently tagged their "Life's An Ocean" with a brief snippet of "Rapper's Delight."
It was the first song covered by Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon in a bit called "The History of Rap" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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