Jay-Z "Dead Presidents" from Lonnie Liston Smith - "A garden of Peace" - Sampled by Producer SKI

[@DonCMo414]

Lonnie Liston is fire. Feel like you can rap over a lot of his music without having to touch it, he was so much ahead of his time

[@dannylamar4020]

Back when producers took pride in making tracks!.

[@waxmaster-c]

what??

[@TimelineBeats]

So they don't take pride nowadays? 😶

[@dannylamar4020]

@@TimelineBeats That’s what I said

[@Ilovechicago100]

@@TimelineBeats some do ....some don’t

[@enigmaticunderground]

I’m still here nigga.

[@AJ803]

This has always been one of my favorite samples.

[@mr.allfacts9489]

You are gorgeous 😍

[@1pandamera]

Me too.

[@shalamarsmallwood5254]

Especially especially mary-j-blige take me as I am

[@AJ803]

@@shalamarsmallwood5254 yes! That’s a good one too.

[@lakeisharobinson2132]

Likewise!

[@valaryansteelkatana5798]

For me, I think that Dead Presidents has the most beautiful beat/melody in hip hop. It's an extremely emotional background

[@tonysproule3408]

One of the sickest hooks in rap.

[@Bigrobrounder]

Classic track. When Hip-hop music = Gems that you don’t find as often in 2020

[@dariushallums6321]

I just heard the original song for the first time and damn I know why that song has been sampled so many times.

[@killerinstinct011]

Its 2022.. this producer created a fire that will burn till the end of time.

[@vanessamorenorosales1786]

That right there.... EMOTION .... that's what makes this sample sooooo good!!

[@JohnSmith-bm6zg]

These guys are smart

[@WyWid]

No they are actually stupid

[@nolopambo5049]

Legendary

[@Tranman69]

Genius

[@1kiakia11]

My Ski 🙌🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀✨This was hella dope how he flipped it! Jay lacing the lyrics was the cream....CLASSIC 'Reasonable Doubt' song on the platinum album! 💿🏆

[@aldonova4082]

Still dope as F... Jay or the record company has to pay Nas 25% still to this day (for every sale) for that sample in the hook. That's the deal MC Serch made for/with Nas... $2,500 cash and 25% of the royalities (as he said on an interview on here somewhere). Serch is executive producer of Nas early stuff and has to sign off as executor if Nas asks him to do something.

[@rocketboyz1004]

Sick!!!

[@MrEOM41]

“I’m out for presidents to represent me” 💵

[@jayinthebx]

The sample is fire. But also that Nas sample makes the track. Without that the rapping means shit 💯🤷‍♂️

[@hammer23ist]

U sound silly

[@Bigrobrounder]

Lol nah. Nas sample is everything but that track fit Jay lyrics perfectly back then. I’m not saying he’s as dope an emcee as nas but you gotta give him credit for that first album whole thing is pretty much one of the dopest Hiphop albums. It’s not as good as illmatic but it’s still a classic

[@PlatinumJimmy_Jr]

Track would have been fire with/without the sample

[@hanzoY248]

@@Bigrobrounder fr reasonable doubt is a classic. But I prefer dead presidents 2 tbh. 1st one is still one of the best rap songs of all time. Just shows how good jay iz.

[@fadlibugis9154]

Classic

[@hitman6191]

Masterful

[@Aurelien_Machu]

Ouah trop fort 😮

[@djefardeur7958]

dope

[@jmxri]

🐐

[@user-fv8ou8cz3h]

jay z looks like baby

[@crunchstick1277]

The original sounded plenty good enough without the Rap. Older music that was created perfectly makes it easy for current artists to capitalize on the way blues artists had their music ripped off by white artists and labels in the past. Time for artists today to stop dipping from the well and create something that’s sample worthy and unique.

[@hammer23ist]

U sound silly.....go away old dude!....the original is dope too!

[@BOPZINKBIZ]

Sampling is a bonafide art form within itself. He used a small element from Lonnie Liston Smith and made something different. Lonnie did get a check for that too. That's doing good business .

[@solitary2]

Jazz and blues literally birthed rap/hip hop. It’s the mother/father of it, and it’s created someone of the most iconic tracks ever. No. Anyone can sample anything, but everyone cannot make it special

[@ericpaulthompson1386]

Instant classic that is beautiful part of rap connection with past generation sorry you felt that way peace

[@huntertothee]

its funny u went thru the process of looking this up just to talk shit lol

[@JaySmitty33]

Genius