"Impeach the President" is a song by funk band the Honey Drippers, written and produced by Roy Charles Hammond, known as Roy C. It was first released as a single on Alaga Records in 1973, and was re-released to iTunes by Tuff City Records in 2017, after being sampled hundreds of times since the mid-1980s.
[5] The song takes its drum pattern from "Funky Drummer" by James Brown; one of the most widely heard beats sampled and interpolated in hip hop, R&B, jazz and pop music.
[10] Digital Underground sampled the song on "Flowin' on the D-Line" from their 1991 album Sons of the P.[11] In 1992, Tuff City Records sued Sony Music and Def Jam Records, alleging that samples of "Impeach the President" were used in L.L.
[14] A Sprite commercial in 1995 featured Large Professor and Grand Puba freestyling over the song's breakbeat.
[16] Kali Uchis sampled the beat in "Mucho Gusto" on her mixtape Drunken Babble.