Friends (Whodini song)

"Friends" is a song by the American hip-hop group Whodini. The song reached #4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.^[3]

"Friends"
Single by Whodini
from the album Escape
B-side	"Five Minutes of Funk"
Released	July 20, 1984 (1984-07-20)[1]
Recorded	1984
Genre	Hip hop
Length	4:38
Label	Jive Records
Songwriter(s)	Jalil Hutchins, Lawrence Smith
Producer(s)	Larry Smith[2]
Whodini singles chronology
"Yours for a Night" (1983) "Friends" (1984) "Freaks Come Out at Night" (1984)

Chart performance

Chart (1984–85)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	87
US Hot Black Singles (Billboard)[4]	4
Billboard Dance/Disco[5]	25

Samples

• Public Enemy sampled the drum beat for their song "Sophisticated Bitch" from their first album.
• The song was interpolated in Nas' song "If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)" from his 1996 album It Was Written.^[6]
• Dr. Dre sampled the track for "A Nigga Witta Gun" from the 1992 album The Chronic.
• The song was sampled on the Nickelodeon sitcom Taina on the song "Thought that we were friends", sung by Christina Vidal who played the title character.
• The song was also sampled by Will Smith for the track "Potnas" on his 1999 album Willennium.
• MF DOOM sampled it for the track "Deep Fried Frenz" on his 2004 album Mm...Food.
• Bad Azz sampled it for the track "Ghetto Star" for his 1998 debut album Word On Tha Streets.
• 2Pac sampled it for the track "Troublesome '96" from his posthumous Greatest Hits album.
• 213 sampled it in their debut song "Friends" from member Nate Dogg's 1998 album G-Funk Classics, Vol. 1 & 2.
• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony sampled it in their song "Friends" (renamed to "How Many of Us Have Them" on some releases) on their 1997 album The Art of War.
• Kendrick Lamar sampled the song in "wacced out murals," the first track of his 2024 album GNX.

The song was also used in a commercial for Corona Extra in 2023, which featured Snoop Dogg and Bad Bunny.