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Due to the popularity of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]], the games have been referenced numerous times in popular songs.

=={{wp|Akapellah}}==

===Como Mario===

The instrumental to this track is sampled from the [[Athletic Theme (Super Mario Bros. 3)|Athletic Theme]] from ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', while the lyrics are inspired by the ''Super Mario'' franchise.<ref> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qkNEdaMYLs </ref>

 

=={{wp|ASAP Ferg}}==

===Perfume===

ASAP Ferg's debut mixtape includes this song, with the line, "And I click like Donkey Kong when I hit this long".

 

The instrumental to this track from their debut album incorporates a sound clip of [[Yoshi]] dying from ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''.

=={{wp|Alessia Cara}}==

===Nintendo Game===

The song features references to actions commonly used in Nintendo games, featuring the line, "All the trash talk is getting old, I'd rather try my hand at [[Rainbow Road]]".

=={{wp|Alestorm}}==

[[File:Alestorm Curse of the Crystal Coconut poster.png|thumb|250px|The cover art for Alestorm's ''Curse of the Crystal Coconut'']]

The title of Alestorm's sixth studio album, ''{{wp|Curse of the Crystal Coconut}}'', is inspired by the ''[[Donkey Kong (franchise)|Donkey Kong]]'' franchise.<ref>Munro, Scott (January 8, 2020). [https://www.loudersound.com/news/alestorm-swing-back-into-action-with-curse-of-the-crystal-coconut Alestorm swing back into action with Curse Of The Crystal Coconut]. ''Loudersound.com''. Retrieved March 8, 2020.</ref> One of the album's tracks is a cover of "[[List of Donkey Kong Country (television series) songs#Pirate's Scorn|Pirate's Scorn]]" from the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (television series)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' television series. Additionally, the album's cover art features several references to the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise, such as an eponymous [[Crystal Coconut]] from ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', the skeletal remains of a [[Donkey Kong|gorilla wearing a red tie]], a floating [[DK Coin]], and several [[Klomp]]s from ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'', as well as generic ''Donkey Kong'' motifs such as [[banana]]s and [[barrel]]s, including a [[TNT Barrel]].

=={{wp|Alex Day}}==

===I Hate ''Mario Kart Wii''===

From Alex Day's ''117% Complete'' single, he describes his hatred for ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'' and explains what happens as the race he is playing is progressing, which includes failing a [[Rocket Start]], going from last place to first using a [[Bullet Bill]], and getting hit by a [[Spiny Shell (blue)|Spiny Shell]]. In addition, the [[Invincibility BGM|Super Star theme]] is incorporated into the end of the song.<ref>Alex Day - Topic (November 18, 2019). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUSnOjd6mFE I Hate Mario Kart Wii]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved April 19, 2024.</ref>

=={{wp|Allison (band)|Allison}}==

===''Super Mario Bros.''===

A remake of the ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' theme by Taller Para Niños.

=={{wp|Apathy (rapper)|Apathy}}==

===Can't Leave Rap Alone===

This song features this line from fellow rapper {{wp|Celph Titled}}: "[http://rap.genius.com/874375/Apathy-cant-leave-rap-alone/Im-like-donkey-kong-i-got-you-niggas-dodgin-my-barrels I'm like Donkey Kong, I got you niggas dodgin' my barrels]".

=={{wp|Ashnikko}}==

===STUPID===

The song "STUPID" by Ashnikko, featuring {{wp|Baby Tate (rapper)|Baby Tate}}, features Ashnikko saying the line, "I'm sweet, then I'm sour, I'm big boss Bowser".

=={{wp|Asher Roth}}==

===Lark On My Go-Kart===

Asher Roth raps, "Mario Kart skills are outrageous," in this song from his first album.

=={{wp|B1A4}}==

===What's Going On? Why?===

In the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u5RTAfOA3M music video] for South Korean boy band B1A4's Japanese single ''What's Going On? Why?'', member Gongchan's set is directly based on the ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' series.

=={{wp|Baby Keem}}==

===France Freestyle===

On the song "France Freestyle" by Baby Keem, from his second mixtape, ''Die For My Bitch'', he says the line "beat the box like Bowser".

=={{wp|Bad Bunny}}==

===Thunder and Lightning===

The Latin trap/reggaeton song "Thunder and Lightning" by Bad Bunny, features a verse from artist {{wp|Eladio Carrión}} who says the line, "Emes grande' en mi cuenta, Super Mario". This line translates roughly to "Big Ms in my account, Super Mario".  

=={{wp|Bad Meets Evil}}==

===I'm On Everything===

The song, by hip-hop duo, Bad Meets Evil (composed of {{wp|Eminem}} and {{wp|Royce da 5'9"}}), references Mario in the line "Me and visions on 'shrooms, call us the Mario Brothers".

=={{wp|bbno$}}==

===Go Bananas===

This song with fellow rappers {{wp|Yung Gravy}} and {{wp|Spark Master Tape}} features the line "Watch the [[Blue Shell]] do some damage, we in the back".

==Bear Ghost==

===The Mario Cliché===

 

=={{wp|Big Gigantic}}==

===Just the Same===

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=={{wp|Buckner & Garcia}}==

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===Roll===

===Tazmanian Devil===

 

=={{wp|Cupcakke|CupcakKe}}==

 

 

===Rainbow in the Dark===

{{wp|Kool A.D.}}'s verse includes the line, "Like Don King playing ''Donkey Kong Country'' at his cousin's house".

 

 

 

 

 

This track produced by producer DJ RPM features rapper Kevin Gates, with Gates saying the line, "Jumping and dodging the fence like I'm Mario".

==DJ Scheme==

===E-ER===

DJ Scheme is a hip hop producer, and member of the hip hop collective {{wp|Members Only (hip hop collective)|Members Only}}. His debut album, ''FAMILY'', features this song which features {{wp|Ski Mask the Slump God}}, Danny Towers and {{wp|Lil Yachty}}. Ski Mask the Slump God's verse features the lines, "On the patio fucking Princess's peach, Mario / Yellow Louis V overalls on me, look like Wario".

=={{wp|Doja Cat}}==

===NintendHoe===

This song contains many references to video games, and contains the lines, "''[[Super Smash Bros. (series)|Super Smash Bros.]]'', you so ass though" and "Donkey Kong when he drum on that pussy".

=={{wp|Drake}}==

===6 God===

The instrumental to this song samples the "Haunted Chase" track from ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]''.

=={{wp|Drakeo the Ruler}}==

===Out the Slums===

On the song "Out the Slums" by the late rapper Drakeo the Ruler, guest feature {{wp|03 Greedo}} raps the lines, "Nintendo Switch on this handheld / Mario Kart, watch the tail slide out".

=={{wp|Dunderpatrullen}}==

===Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy===

 

=={{wp|Eminem}}==

===Despicable (Freestyle)===

==={{wp|Rap God}}===

In the official [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA music video], a scene displays a TV screen playing the original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', albeit modified to avoid copyright.

 

 

YouTube channel Epic Rap Battles of History created a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_hKLfTKU5Y video rap battle] with [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] battling the Wright Bros. [[Princess Peach]] and [[Donkey Kong]] are mentioned once each, with a line stating: "Your princess is in our castle now, yeah she's gone, cause stayed up all night playing ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]".

=={{wp|Far East Movement}}==

==={{wp|Rocketeer (song)|Rocketeer}}===

One line in the middle of "Rocketeer" is "We're on some next level, Super Mario."

=={{wp|Fetty Wap}}==

===Yoshi===

The thirteenth song off Fetty Wap's second major studio album is titled "Yoshi", after the ''Super Mario'' character.

=={{wp|Flatbush Zombies}}==

===The Results Are In===

=={{wp|Freezepop}}==

===I Am Not Your Gameboy===

=={{wp|He Is Legend}}==

===The Seduction===

=={{wp|Hobo Johnson}}==

===Mario & Link===

 

=={{wp|Hoodie Allen}}==

===Vroom===

In the official [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NnxJgJ-euA lyric video], rapper Hoodie Allen and actor Connor Price (who is the featured artist of this song) drive through various courses in ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' via green screen and rear view from said game's gameplay.

 

The song "Birdo" off Horse the Band's third album, ''{{wp|The Mechanical Hand}}'' is loosely based off [[Birdo]], and features electronic 8-bit sounds with an electric guitar. The song's inspiration and real meaning is mostly about the vocalist's distaste for eggs, and his traumatic childhood.

 

=={{wp|Jack Harlow}}==

===Movie Star===

The song "Movie Star" featuring {{wp|Pharrell Williams}} contains the line, "You know we get that bourbon out the barrel, Diddy Kong".

=={{wp|J. Cole}}==

===Daddy's Little Girl===

===Trouble===

 

==='95 South===

The song "'95 South" (stylized "9 5 . s o u t h") contains the line: "Could put a M right on your head, you Luigi brother now". The line is a play on words referring to placing a million-dollar (M) bounty on someone's life (their head), and him alluding that to the M on Mario's cap.

 

===ES Tales===

 

This song featuring Trey Songz features the line in the first verse: "I go up and down, round and round, Super Mario".

 

This song features rapper {{wp|Pitbull (rapper)|Pitbull}}, in which he says in the interlude, is "And watch as a chick gon’ get Donkey Kong'ed."

 

 

On his sophomore album, ''{{wp|All My Heroes Are Cornballs}}'', JPEGMafia raps the following two lines in a verse: "I'm dressin' up like I'm Prince Peach / And if you sendin' in Marios to defend me".

=={{wp|Juice Wrld}}==

===From My Window===

This song by the late Juice Wrld features the line "Mario Luigi, my bros 'til the bitter end".

=={{wp|Kero Kero Bonito}}==

===Sick Beat===

The song's backing track is based around a sample of the "Star Select" jingle from ''[[Super Mario 64]]''.

=={{wp|Kesha}}==

 

 

 

 

 

 

=={{wp|Leaders of the New School}}==

===Syntax Era===

=={{wp|Lights (musician)|Lights}}==

===Timing is Everything===

One of the first lines of track 7 on Canadian musician Lights' 2011 album ''{{wp|Siberia (Lights album)|Siberia}}'' is "In the interim, the princess was in another castle."

=={{wp|Lil Dicky}}==

===Lemme Freak===

=={{wp|Lil Wayne}}==

==={{wp|No Worries (Lil Wayne song)|No Worries}}===

On this song, Lil Wayne states in the second verse: "Let me see that Donkey Kong".

 

 

On his debut mixtape, this particular song from rapper {{wp|Lil Yachty}} features the instrumental to the ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' file select screen, with coin sound effects edited in throughout.

=={{wp|Logan Whitehurst}}==

===What It's Like in Japan===

[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/362208 "What It's Like in Japan"] featured on the album "Very Tiny Songs", describes [[Japan]] (from where Mario was created) in a manner clearly modeled after a typical ''Super Mario Bros.'' level, featuring sound effects from the game and having its last line (''That's what it's like when you go to Japan''). The end is sung to the tune of ''Super Mario Bros.''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Game Over]] theme.

=={{wp|Logic (rapper)|Logic}}==

===Super Mario World===

===Wordplay===

 

=={{wp|The Lonely Island}}==

===I Don't Give A Honk===

{{wp|Andy Samberg}} claims "We all know we're born with one hundred honks," to which {{wp|Jorma Taccone}} adds, "But people throw them away like they were Donkey Konks."

=={{wp|Ludacris}}==

===Spur of the Movement===

=={{wp|Lupe Fiasco}}==

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=={{wp|The NESkimos}}==

[http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=91259 The NESkimos] is a band that plays metal versions of music from Nintendo games, including ''Super Mario Bros. 3''.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The song contains some notes from the ending theme of ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The song "Cha Cha" by DRAM has an instrumental that samples the Star Road theme from ''Super Mario World'', and uses the staple coin effects throughout.

=={{wp|SahBabii}}==

===Purple Ape===

In SahBabii's song "Purple Ape", the rapper delivers the line "I'm ridin' with Yoshi".  

=={{wp|Ski Mask the Slump God}}==

===Merlin's Staff===

The song "Merlin's Staff" from his mixtape ''Sin City The Mixtape'' contains the lines "On the go like Mario, drive in a kart" and "Kickstand, stick-shift, Peach colored kart".  

==={{wp|Nuketown}}===

The song "Nuketown" from the album ''{{wp|STOKELEY}}'' contains the line, "Ate a Mario mushroom quick, uh-huh".

=={{wp|S3RL}}==

===This Beat Has Got Me===

The music video for the song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SnUylW_HY4 This Beat Has Got Me]" has some of the on-screen lyrics use one of the fonts from ''[[Mario Kart DS]]'', specifically the one prominently used in course previews.

=={{wp|Skrillex}}==

===Kill Everybody===

The song "Kill Everybody" by Skrillex samples the [[Super Mushroom]] power-up sound from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''

=={{wp|Smif-N-Wessun}}==

===Super Brooklyn===

 

=={{wp|Snoop Dogg}}==

===The Bidness===

=={{wp|Soulja Boy}} and Young L==

===''Mario & Domo vs. the World''===

Rappers Soulja Boy and Young L (of the hip hop group {{wp|The Pack (group)|The Pack}}) collaborated on a mixtape titled ''Mario & Domo vs. the World'', released in 2012. The album cover features Mario in the ''Paper Mario'' style, with differently colored clothing, and {{wp|NHK}} Japanese broadcast mascot, {{wp|Domo (NHK)|Domo}} facing each other. Most songs have the name Mario name-dropped in some fashion; for example, the song "Triple Chain Gang" has Soulja Boy saying the line "Mario, on my neck with Domo". In another song, "One", Mario's name is only briefly mentioned in the introduction when Soulja Boy is repeating his name four times and Mario's name two times before his verse actually begins.

=={{wp|Suicideboys}}==

===Genesis===

The instrumental of this song samples the Game Over theme of ''[[Super Mario World]]''.

 

===The Thin Grey Line===

The first line in the song is "I feel like Princess Peach, rose gold on my Mercedes", seemingly a reference to [[Pink Gold Peach]] and the [[Mercedes-Benz × Mario Kart 8|Mercedes-Benz]] collaboration downloadable content, both from ''[[Mario Kart 8]]''.

 

==Supah Mario==

[https://genius.com/artists/Supah-mario Supah Mario] is the stage name for DeMario Priester, a hip hop music producer who has produced instrumentals to tracks for big name artists including Drake, {{wp|Young Thug}}, {{wp|2 Chainz}}, and others.

 

Spanish song by the Mexican group; only the last line in the song actually refers to ''Super Mario Bros. 3''. Song was later covered by Mexican band {{wp|Allison (band)|Allison}} on their debut self-titled album, this time simply titled "[https://genius.com/Allison-mario-bros-3-lyrics Mario Bros. 3]".

 

 

 

The band's sophomore album, ''Floral Green'', includes a poster featuring a ''[[Mario Kart Arcade GP]]'' cabinet.

=={{wp|Trace Adkins}}==

===Honky Tonk Badonkadonk===

=={{wp|Tyga}}==

===Hijack===

The song makes a reference to [[Bowser]] when the rapper says "Motherfucking beast bitch call me King Koopa."

 

 

This song from Waka Flocka Flame's debut album ''{{wp|Flockaveli}}'' contains the line, "Ran up on his car, had him eating shells like Mario Go-Kart".

 

On the song "Double M Genius" from Wale's ''Ambition'' album, he raps the line, "Crazy talking and foolish / You catch a shell like a Koopa".

 

Produced by DJ Whethan, this track features rappers {{wp|midwxst}}, {{wp|Yeat}} and {{wp|Matt Ox}}, in which midwxst says this line in his verse: "I've been banging my chest like I'm DK, spin tracks like a DJ".  

 

The song "Came2Kill" from the mixtape ''{{wp|Members Only, Vol. 3|XXXTENTACION Presents: Members Only, Vol. 3}}'' uses an edited version of the instrumental to [[Joke's End]] from ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' composed by Yoko Shimomura.

 

This song "Bowser" from the mixtape "Members Only, Vol. 3" features rapper Ski Mask the Slump God, and it features various pop culture references, including video games and television cartoons, but features no additional references to Mario outside from the song name.

 

The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgm9nyGYRX0 CD single remix] of the song features the sound effect that plays when stomping on a [[Chargin' Chuck]] or [[Koopalings|Koopaling]] in ''[[Super Mario World]]'', which came out in the band's home region of Europe four months before the remix's release.

This song from the album ''Marvelous'' contains the line in the second verse, "Pull up with a [[Zelda]] and a [[Princess Peach|Peach]] and a [[Princess Daisy|Daisy]]".

===Super Smash Bros.===

This song featuring a collaboration with fellow rapper {{wp|bbno$}} is named after the fighting game series of the same name, even containing the line, "I'mma Super Smash like Donkey Kong".

=={{wp|Yung Lean}}==

Yung Lean is a Swedish rapper whose lyrics frequently reference video games. His music video to "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stgrSjynPKs Hurt]" features video game related graphics and footage, such as including gameplay from ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. Some of his songs reference ''Super Mario'', and two songs directly reference ''Super Mario'' in the title: "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX1a3JngmpI Yoshi City]" and another titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xPRKrsl3U Princess Daisy]".

 

*"[http://rap.genius.com/2587305/Yung-lean-5th-element/Super-mario-everyday Super Mario everyday]" in "5th Element"

 

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