So yeah, I sampled your voice you was usin' it wrong: you made it a hot line, I made it a hot song. Jay-Z responds to Nas' claims in his song " Takeover" with the lines: You show off, I count dough off when you sample my voice. In Nas' track "Stillmatic Freestyle," he says: When Nas and Jay-Z directly feuded, both rappers discussed the merit of the sampling in the song in individual "diss" records. Some view these two actions as the catalyst of the Jay-Z vs.
Nas was originally invited to re-rap the chorus for Jay-Z and appear in the track's music video, but he declined. The music video features cameos by The Notorious B.I.G., AZ, Lil' Cease, Damon Dash, Kareem "Biggs" Burke, and Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith. "Dead Presidents" samples multiple artists including 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)". The title is slang for money because portraits of dead United States presidents appear on most Federal Reserve Notes. "Dead Presidents II" was voted number 16 in 's Top 100 Rap Songs and number two in Rolling Stone 's Top 50 Jay-Z Songs. It was released as the first promotional single for Jay-Z's debut album Reasonable Doubt, though it did not directly appear on the album: a different version of the song with the same backing track and chorus but with different lyrics called "Dead Presidents II" appeared on Reasonable Doubt. " Dead Presidents" is a 1996 song by American rapper Jay-Z.
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