Samples

Toto's globe-spanning soft-rock anthem — a chart-topping ode to longing and distance — provides the melodic spine of "Private Landing." Don and the producers (Rob Bisel, Cardo, Omar Guetfa, 206Derek) interpolate the song's signature synth-and-vocal hook, repurposing its yearning chorus as a sky-bound R&B love letter alongside Justin Bieber and Future.

Sampled in '4 Me' (Don Toliver feat. Kali Uchis) on Love Sick (2023). Written by Pharrell Williams + Chad Hugo.

Kid Rock's 2008 country-rock crossover — itself built on Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" — is interpolated by Don on "Sweet Home," the closing Octane track. Mike Dean and 206Derek nod to the song's slide-guitar hook while Don reframes the nostalgia as Houston homecoming and post-fatherhood reflection.

Charli XCX's lockdown-era hyperpop slow-burn — a cult favorite that quietly went platinum years after release — is sampled on "Rocket Power," a digital-deluxe variant of Octane. The flip recasts Charli's neon ache into a Don Toliver night-drive ballad, leaning on the original's arpeggiated synth wash.