Jay-Z - Dead Presidents (Lyrics)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Artist/Group: Jay-Z
Album: Reasonable Doubt
Released: 1996
Label: Roc-A-Fella
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"Dead Presidents" is a 1996 song by rapper Jay-Z. It was released as the first promotional single for Jay-Z's debut album Reasonable Doubt, although it did not directly appear on the album: a different version, with the same backing track and chorus but different lyrics, called "Dead Presidents II", appeared on Reasonable Doubt instead. Both versions of the song are regarded as some of the greatest hip-hop songs ever recorded, and "Dead Presidents II" was voted #16 in About.com's Top 100 Rap Songs.
"Dead Presidents II" also appears in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, as part of the Doomsday Heist update, in the blonded Los Santos 97.8 FM radio station.
The title is slang for money because portraits of dead United States presidents appear on most Federal Reserve Notes.
The song was produced by Ski. The song samples Lonnie Liston Smith's "A Garden of Peace" for the track's melody and A Tribe Called Quest's "Oh My God (remix)" for its percussion; the chorus is a sample of Nas rapping "I'm out for dead presidents to represent me", from his 1994 song "The World Is Yours (Tip Mix)".
Nas was originally invited to re-rap the chorus for Jay-Z and appear in the track's music video, but he declined. Some view these two actions as the foundation of Jay-Z vs. Nas feud.[4]
When Nas and Jay-Z feuded directly, both rappers discussed the merit of the sampling in the song in individual "diss" records. In Nas' track "Stillmatic Freestyle," he says:
You show off, I count dough off when you sample my voice.
Jay-Z responds to Nas' claims in his song "Takeover" with the lines:
So yeah, I sampled your voice; you was usin' it wrong: you made it a hot line, I made it a hot song. And you ain't get a coin nigga you was gettin' fucked then; I know who I paid God, Serchlite Publishing.
The line was later used in Cassidy's 2005 hit "I'm a Hustla":
Yeah I used dude's voice props to the boy Shawn, He made it a hot line, I made it a hot song.
In 2005 at Jay-Z's I Declare War concert, he performed "Dead Presidents II" with Nas, officially ending their feud.
In a RUclips video named Ski Beatz - the making of Jay-Z's Dead Presidents[5] Ski explains how he filtered out the high frequency content of the melody sample (using a lowpass filter) to achieve a more prominent bass line without replaying one in. Ski's Beats, Rhymes & Samples mixtape contains the Q-Tip remix in the context of a "Dead Presidents" sample, because the original "The World is Yours" had altered lyrics in connection to the sampled vocals. At the end of the sample from the chorus, you can hear the "Whose" from "Whose world is this?" from the beginning of the chorus of "The World is Yours".
Jay-Z recorded a track called "Dead Presidents 3" around the time of The Black Album but it was never completed. The unfinished song was leaked onto the internet in the fall of 2007, around the release of American Gangster. In it, Jay-Z referenced some of his lyrics from the original "Dead Presidents" and he used the sample but the sample was played in reverse and had a darker more atmospheric feel to it.
In July 2013 during a rare Twitter Q&A, a fan asked Jay-Z if "Dead Presidents 3" would be released which then resulted in Jay giving Young Guru and Just Blaze the permission to release the track on Young Guru's SoundCloud account.
Many artists have released remixed versions of Dead Presidents with original lyrics (often freestyles) performed over the original sample and chorus. Notable artists to release versions of Dead Presidents include Charles Hamilton, Lil B, Lil' Wayne, Drake, Slug of Atmosphere, Chamillionaire, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T, Akala, Lupe Fiasco, Kano, Logic, Slaughterhouse, AZ, Curren$y featuring and DJ Premier who recorded a version with reworked instrumentals with Jay-Z's original lyrics and vocals from Nas' The World is Yours (Remix).
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In my opinion the best sample of all time
samee
ikr it sure is Omni_ king23
ALI RAZA me too
Maybe one of the realest songs of all time but best sample imo is Dont Cry-J Dilla.
Nas ofcourse iconic
In my opinion this is in the top 5 rap songs of all time. 👌🏻
Thank you ❤
Nah top 20 maybe
Nas song 😂
@@tmafungo84this is a Nas song?
@@Blank9458 no but it samples Nas "The World is Yours" with the "I'm out for presidents to represent me"
This song never gets old!!! Classic!! 👍👍
When Jay-Z gets into his hustler talk he’s the best emcee ever
That first verse, dayuum!
Classic best Jay Z song and one of his first
D’evils his best song and prolly the best song ever written if u understand what he’s saying
The first verse ... Goat stuff👐👐
I like 2nd verse even more
Better than the last?.2nd is legendary and gangsta to the core.Breaking down street politics
hip hop the way it used to be - classic
This classic song age like fine wine .. one of Jay-z greatest song other than Devils.
D'Evils
@@isaiahayers1550d’evils is actually a masterpiece, prolly my favorite song oat
@@internetytshorts6719 it's pretty amazing, I agree.
d'evils is absolutely amazing
U made a hot line I made it a hot song.
The ironic part is, The World Is Yours is much more of a classic song, and better, than Dead Presidents
@@deepaparakkal4241 stop it that’s a lie
@@Fernandesci both are amazing songs and classics.
@@deepaparakkal4241 nah, Jay was right but both goated
Yeah an nas gits paid off him lol
forever better than the album version
That second verse still relevant today
This song was what let me know Jay Z really was a drug dealer or was heavily around drug dealers. His slang and the way he talks in it you can almost smell the coke.
For me it was the fact that the feds pursued him for yeeeears after he was rapping lol
10/10
Hip hop classic
Favorite song ever
This word play fucking crazy man
This is a good rapper Jay-Z!
This is still one of the best hip hop songs of all time and the 2nd version on reasonable Doubt is even better. Though this played a role in the Nas beef and he does has 50% ownership of this but this is still one of the most important hip hop songs ever made. I don’t care about this hate over a beef that happened 20 years ago. Nas won definitely but it’s been dead for over 17 years and both are now friends.
One of hov’s best
forever young.
Nice work bro
This is my life changer song
Jay is god
Thanks again
@Joseph D’Andrea Amen
Jay Hova
Simple lyrics but jay z be spittin some sick rhymes. The beat is catchy as well
lol simple? these eminenm fanboys are otta pocket
mans said simple
Not simple
Eminem fanboyz really is delusional. Jay Z is that dude when it comes 2 lyrical abilities and he spits that hard shit too that we all can relate too. Give 1 verse/album of Em being relatable ???? Em raps bunch of nothingness put together well
@@infectedmuhrom6039 I feel like when Em focuses on rhyming he raps well put together nothingness..but when he sacrifices rhymes for a story or message he puts out gold
Difficult,Legacy,Mockingbird,
Headlights, Cleaning out my Closet, Toy Soldier etc...
And to the dude above, Jay Zs like ain't simple- it's like hes masterfully reading a poem over a beat.
Sad and awesome song
I blow a digit on a diamond 🔥
DJ Cut Chemist had a mixtape where he had this playing at a pitch of like -3 and it sounds so dope.
There is a french rap song that sampled this one the french song is called
La fouine - tombé pour elle
“with the underworld dealers carriers of Mac millers”🔥
@@Videos-xn6ss oxy’s
Naaa. Carriers of Mac millets. Mack gun. @@eastphilakillason
its kosher , shit so hasidic
i blow a digit on a diamond i a minute.
Those bars in that sequence went over so many heads. He said “ my aint life and rosy but I rolls with it. My mind was fine until the dough hit it , and told me that the Mo’ did it, and now this Kosher shit it’s so Hasidic, I blow a digit on a Diamond in a minute but no bitches. Thats the entire scheme.
Hot line
Good old day before Jay z and Nas had a beef and so there were no issue for Jay to used a bit of a Nas sample line from "The World Is Yours".
HOVA THE GREATEST 💯💯💯🤘
I grew up on this version csuse i has the cd single. Verse 1 is perfect
Jay sampled Nas a lot in Reasonable Doubt
samplin Nas in the 90s almost guaranteed you a NY classic...u know when u sample gods son u gotta go in
@@6ick6ick6ity5 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Yooo just realised the first lines were in Exhibit A by Jay Electronica
Yo... how did Mac Miller get his name? Rest in peace to him... but damn revisiting certsin songs. You hear something different every single listen.
🔥🔥🔥🔥classic 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Jay z rocked....Nas rules.
The Greatest. Hov.
Why don’t they have this version on Apple Music
This version is somewhat rare. I think it came out as a single only
it's only here so far; it's not in any music streaming service
Respect the Game 🫡
bro im so happy i foiund this in gta
Where?
@@illmatic-1994 i think blonded but not sure
@@goldn8409 def blonded bro
@@goldn8409 that's awesome. Dead prezzies is a classic. How old r u?
@@infectedmuhrom6039 why do you need to know how old i am
They don’t make em like this anymore
This that drug dealer talk to the utmost.
this one or part II… i say this one
I'm tired of the haters who comparing L & Jay Z.. IMHO Reasonable Doubt make Big L's debut (Lifestylez Ov Da Poor) sounds very low point amateur-ish album. This is Jay Z true style that should murked Big L
Reasonable doubt jay is really good but i think black album is a bit better because he sounds more confident because he knows his place and doesnt need to prove anything. both classics though
I sampled your voice you was using it wrong
Anyone here bcuz of gta5???
That 3 verse is a let down it was a corny and not slick and thats the attraction to him slickness
Corny? 💀 bro you need to understand the lyrics before you judge hip hop for its lyrics. Because the beat is all that. The flow is all that. And the lyrics is all THAT.
Put this shit on streaming
@@Awesomesauce354 where?
@HandleName1000 Nope the album version is on spotify, This is the single version
Sample aint cleared
Jay z is the best rapper ever
Why isn't this version on Spotify? 😢
Dead presidents 2 ?
It the full version
This the original version
Nas killed it
jay used his voice better
@@d4w639 yeah he made a whole career of biting people
@@casteltheghettomonk4392 In hiphop it is called sampling.
@@obiehive1236 doesn't mean Jay-Z is good , bitting ass clown 🤡 even put Nas lyrics in his new museum few days ago , what a posh clown
😁🏆
This guy isn’t for workers
The fact Jayz was beefing with Nas he sampled him on this track from Illmatic
I don't believe they were beefing during this time period
This was years before the beef. Like 5+
Nas samples
Nas made it a hot line Jay said He made it a hot song
@@derrickholmes2024 the songs lyrics were okay, the beat was 🤙🤙
@@derrickholmes2024 no 🧢
@@derrickholmes2024 the world is yours is better than dead President
@@northbinolu7971 I'm just saying what J said I didn't say I agree with what He said.
Just so yaa know NAS owns every Jay-Z dead president songs. As MC Search
Nas works for jay u think he gives af 💀 jay owns EVERY nas song
Why is the sample censored
carriers of Mac Millers
It aint bad i mean but this cant compare to the world is yours
69th comment
I swear I’ve heard this beat some where else someone help what’s it called ?
300 bars and running?
J cole - dead presidents 1 and 2 the come up and the warm up
Sounds like a Nas number
Mmmn for me its a dope track he does have a few but something about i him i don't like he js dope lyricist and rapper but i got atleast 20 -25 rappers that a better than him ... in my opinion 2 pac in a different ball park and millions all of over fans all obee the world both male and female and is just at everything jay z emphasized on slickness 2 pac has more heart
Copied Nas😂😅
How did he copy nas bro what 💀
brah probably European or asian🖕🏽
Its called sampling 😂😂
Ngl, Jcole did it better
Fax
Damn right cole did it better. Better flow and word play.
@Aswel Yutoo Literally anything off illmatic and the whole ether track lmao the fuck. Jay-Z weak as fuck.
complete BS its obvious most of Jays schemes are going over your head , name one quotable bar from J coles version lol
@Aswel Yutoo j.cole lame ass hell Jay z better