I think for "Can I kick it?" Tribe Called Quest were pretty tasteful with such a very audacious lift of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side bassline [0] and the Ian Dury lick, whereas, as a bad example, M.A.R.R.S really kludged everything from Eric B And Rakim into "Pump Up The Volume" that really didn't work for me.

It's really just the slide and stop of course - besides there's quite a story behind the original bassline by Herbie Flowers the session musician who played on Transformer anyway!