What would Biggie make of the way Roc Nation's latest signee repurposes the chorus of his gruff 1993 debut single into a fizzy Top 40 jam about getting trashed? Who knows – maybe he'd race for the dance floor, pump a fist to the glossy guitars and shout along with the huge, ridiculous hooks ("When the sun sets, baby, on the avenue / I get that drunk sex feeling, yeah, when I'm with you"). But he'd probably just laugh.

Listen to Rita Ora's "Party & Bullshit":

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“Everyday People”

"Everyday People" managed to trailblaze in two different ways -- it was one of the first pop hits to deal with the subject of racial harmony, and it utilized Larry Graham's "slap" technique on the bass guitar, which would soon be copied by countless other bassists. Graham once said about his pulsating style, "I'd never done that before … that's where the freedom of creativity came in for the band, that we'd be allowed to do that." In 1978, the song's line "Different strokes for different folks" would be borrowed for the title of the hit television show Diff'rent Strokes.