Why Did Jay-Z Do Dead Presidents Over?

[DoomzdayzV]

One thought is that he might've wanted to change the songs for the album since they had been out a while? Dead Presidents 1 was out on the streets like what? 8 months before the album?

Im guessing this is the answer. they were playing Dead Presidents on the college stations in like 94. Jay prolly liked the beat too much to do away with the whole track

 

[letti cook]

im so used to the second one I cant fukk with the first at all

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

has a lot to do with the ownership and publishing.

Dead Presidents and a bunch of those other songs (in my lifetime, get wit it, foundation, ect.) are not on roc-a-fella .. I think ... When he rerecords them with new words its a new song...

similar to how on the EPMD greatest hits they rerecorded everything that was not released on def jam

 

[Standing on business]

im so used to the second one I cant fukk with the first at all

Breh the 2nd verse on the first one is street gospel

 

[OfTheCross]

Breh the 2nd verse on the first one is street gospel

He don't know what he's saying fam.

 

[letti cook]

Breh the 2nd verse on the first one is street gospel

cool

i like the second version better

 

[spliz]

Both of em are classics. Cant knock someone for liking either one better.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Meek shyt was light and lazy

 

[DMVLeGenD]

Second one was more lyrical but I fukked with his flow on the first one more.

 

[OHSNAP!]

"I only listen to the first one", "I only listen to the second one"

When elitist stanning goes wrong

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

DAMN IT.... just realized this thread from '13

 

[Nemesis]

1st version of dead presidents is my favourite jay joint ever.... that lonnie liston Smith sample

that second verse ..... Ive told this before but the one time in my life that I thought I might be going to jail I remember one night playing that song over and over again .... shyt is the truth

 

[Enzo]

I'm pretty sure he said it in the streets is watching movie

it was too street and too hip hop. He needed something more commercial.

 

[ISO]

 

[bigmanharris]

Mixtape Drake was cold even if he didn't write