" I came into this game with nothing to prove, you never stop a ... In that type of mood." 😩🙌 I just noticed the "Yall record, I recall cause i really been there before" 😮
This is one of my fav songs to listen to on the train in the evening with the sun down and the lights of the city beginning to shine. Just to take a moment and vibe.
Honestly I REALLY like this, but compared to the original Dead Presidents and Dead Presidents II, this one has a bit of a sadder, even darker feel to it. Still, it is very good. I wish both this and the original Dead Presidents would get more attention, as much as Dead Presidents II gets.
@@keeblerelmcookies Dead presidents 1 is only on youtube as far as I know. Same instrumental but very different lyrics. I prefer 1 to II tbh. It needs an official album release seeing it's already considered such a classic.
This was made for the Black Album and never got finished. It only leaked in 2007 around the time of American Gangster. That's its only relation to that movie.
moose185 you’re one of those people that just likes to disagree with other people. It wasn’t supposed to be on reasonable doubt. And it wasn’t made in 2007. It was made for the black album. He even said a few lines that were on “moment of clarity.”
+David Zamarripa descriptions a lie, leftover from black album. the last verse is on moment of clarity off of the black album. He probably switched the verse on here to moment of clarity when he decided not to do the song. He also probably didnt put the song on the album cuz he didnt wanna upset a classic and make something that people might not think is as good
Crazy song. The beat is sinister but gives me that hungry feeling. It also sounds lonely in the way that Jay was lonely at the top. But that's the way the grind goes. 🙏🏾
Jay-z one of the best who done it hands down still washing rappers after all these years is crazy and this track is ridiculously sick and perfectly for the flow
Geometric double entendre Hov " he was on da block where no squares get off, see in my inner circle all we do is ball till we get triangles on our walls"
Got to add the context before the line, makes it way more clever. “Like Lebron or Sebastian, high school graduates, straight to the league I ain’t waiting for my knee to blow, yesterday I was needing this dough.. get it, I was kneading this dough.
He always uses lines from Friends like AZ. I notice it too. But I wouldn't call it a borrow, cause Jay wouldn't need to. Though Cam exposed most of the line borrows.
The darkness of this track fits the mindset of being on that grind and it’s money over everything…. It’s a dark place with flashing lights. The lights flash to let you know you still have time to get out. We all know why it’s dark. Good luck.
This song is like a victory lap, like 1996 Jay got back in the booth one more time to toast his own success and smell his flowers... And to show you, for once and for all time, exactly what he did to deserve it all 💯
The beat reminds me of an old school mob movie. I can picture the whole crew around a huge table wearing suits and cracking jokes while eating stuffed shells.
Is the "yesterday i was kneading this dough" a quadruple entendre ? You got kneading, needing & knee in then you got the ingredients to kneading dough & ... needing dough 🔥🔥🔥
My soul was at peace when i found this video 😭 idk why it isnt on Tidal.. Dead Presidents II is cool and all but i just wanted to hear “the benjamins go in the stash box under the floor im off the presidents that represent me now ya know” thank you for posting this 😭😭😭😭😭
Straight to the League I ain't waiting for my knee to blow. Yesterday I was needing this dough get it needing this dough. I love it. Like Lebron or Sebastian high school Graduates. WOW
“December 4th” should have been the 2nd last track right before “My 1st Song” on “The Black Album”. It would have made more sense based on the song’s overall subject matter.
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2024 still here
This beat, it's so damn sinister, but it's also beautiful
Amazing
Ikr
Makes you pay attention
Well put
Great description...
2024 anyone?
Yes sir
Facts this is a must play
Yep
See you 2025.
yes indeed
This instrumental is out of the world
"Young Guru" in my best Freeway voice
Broooo😭😭😭🙌🙌🙌
very big boy dam I never knew that all this time. That’s dope as hell.
@@p.watson6289 This is the original sample for this beat... ua-cam.com/video/j683oEmno7I/v-deo.html
@@verybigboy The sample is actually "Wookey Hole" by Joe Haider
Can’t believe this was never officially released. Still banging this in 2024
"Straight to the league , I ain't waiting on my knee to blow
yesterday , i was kneading this dough " This bar belongs in the HOF
Very clever
No. *”Straight to the leauge, I ain’t waiting for my knee to blow… just yesterday I was needing this dough… get it? I was kneading this dough…*”
@@FNBen1090AND “I was KNEE in this dough”
@@trademarkmc wow. triple entendre.
Yesterday i was needing this doh..but today I got it...quadruple entendre 😊
Still banging this shit in 2023
Hell,I just discovered it 🤦🏿♂️
"let me live out my dreams until my heart gives out"
this line always strikes a chord with me
Shut up
One of the greatest beats of all time
Definitely
nothing but facts john wick
facts
top 25 all time
Facts
The instrumental sounds like the whole world is about to end. I fucking love it.
2023, always coming back to this gem 💎
"Let me live out my dreams until my heart give out..."
ThaDedication devour cream u know exactly what this shits about
@@mrsmith3869 fuck yall mean? handlin since a teen, i dish out, like the point guard of your favorite team, without doubt
Len Bias reference.
that pause "let me... live out-"
@@MASKEDMAN712 len inspired that???? he never played professionally though
" I came into this game with nothing to prove, you never stop a ... In that type of mood." 😩🙌 I just noticed the "Yall record, I recall cause i really been there before" 😮
The Godfather trilogy of rap
No it's actually biggie , biggest mafia nigga ever
Elias Othman that’s not what he meant
Elias Othman stupid nigga you didn’t even get what he meant.
Elias Othman lol he got it from kool g rap but ok
Yeah Godfather 3 sucked too
This all we want. Quality music. Something to make you nod that dome, think & groove.
✅
damn you summed it up. nod, think and groove.
" straight to the league , i ain't waiting on my knee to blow
yesterday , i was kneading this dough "
uncle nytz
That's crazy right
Fucking genius level lyrics
Get it, I was needing this dough...long as ya math fast if your reading is slow
“I was knee in this dough”
Double metaphor. Jay-Z does it a lot.
This is one of my fav songs to listen to on the train in the evening with the sun down and the lights of the city beginning to shine. Just to take a moment and vibe.
I'm in a train right now ⏸
been on repeat all day
punishment916 same!
Honestly I REALLY like this, but compared to the original Dead Presidents and Dead Presidents II, this one has a bit of a sadder, even darker feel to it.
Still, it is very good. I wish both this and the original Dead Presidents would get more attention, as much as Dead Presidents II gets.
this instrumental is actually just the original dead presidents instrumental played in reverse that's probably why it sounds a little eerie
Don't forget that the original Dead Presidents was released with the video back in 96, part 2 only saw release via the album itself.
FireEmblem27 by far the best
What’s the difference between Dead presidents 1 and 2? Everytime I search for 1 it’s the same as 2 and vice Versa
@@keeblerelmcookies Dead presidents 1 is only on youtube as far as I know.
Same instrumental but very different lyrics. I prefer 1 to II tbh.
It needs an official album release seeing it's already considered such a classic.
This is for high class people he could perform this at a jazz club !!!
Patrick Austin Indeed. well said #NewOrleansApproved
Lol yea
I concur!
Facts.
Music you listen to while being whipped around town by a driver.
R.I.P. KOBE!
Me too. Crazy World, Peace Ma!
Damn..been 2 weeks already?? 😔 RIP MAMBA.
been 7 months now.. rest in peace mamba
Still sad I cried Still do every time I watch his highlights or read his books
im not understanding the Kobe connection
Indeed I listen to this every day
GREATEST RAPPER EVER!
Stopping by for our annual listen in 2024! Hopefully this get added to streaming platforms one day 😅🎉
This tune makes me think of my Father. He was. Is a Don. Rest in rise in power Pops 🍷
This was made for the Black Album and never got finished. It only leaked in 2007 around the time of American Gangster. That's its only relation to that movie.
Sounds reasonable doubt time to me, there is no way this was made for the black album.
+moose185 he used a Lebron line this black album era
+antonio scott I see then it was probably made during 2007, it should have made an album it's one of my favourite jay z songs.
moose185 you’re one of those people that just likes to disagree with other people. It wasn’t supposed to be on reasonable doubt. And it wasn’t made in 2007. It was made for the black album. He even said a few lines that were on “moment of clarity.”
Bros, he mentions Sebastian Telfair - who was drafted 2004. I really think this was made after Black Album.
Young Guru producing this beat still is crazy to me. I wonder why Jay never hopped on more of his beats before this.
Just Blaze had work on this
How could he leave this off American Gangster? By far would have been the best song on the album.
+David Zamarripa exactly bro that album would have been way more recognized than it is.
+David Zamarripa It Didn't Fit
+David Zamarripa descriptions a lie, leftover from black album. the last verse is on moment of clarity off of the black album. He probably switched the verse on here to moment of clarity when he decided not to do the song. He also probably didnt put the song on the album cuz he didnt wanna upset a classic and make something that people might not think is as good
There's a ton a recycled lines on here from older songs
This wouldn't have been the best song on American Gangster tho
"I brought myself here..."
Never far behind cuz I think to forward
😂
Whew...💪🏾
I love that old playstation system I miss those days so cool
Who watching this in 2019? 🔥
Yep! Sep 2019 will be bumping it as long as it's on here!💯
This is my first time hearing this joint! After listening to Jay forever I discovered 2 tracks from him today. This and Can I Live II
Ray. Swayze try 20 bag shorty
You know we in here!
#2020 is approaching...
Crazy song. The beat is sinister but gives me that hungry feeling. It also sounds lonely in the way that Jay was lonely at the top. But that's the way the grind goes. 🙏🏾
Jay-z one of the best who done it hands down still washing rappers after all these years is crazy and this track is ridiculously sick and perfectly for the flow
Geometric double entendre Hov " he was on da block where no squares get off, see in my inner circle all we do is ball till we get triangles on our walls"
He circled the square then put up a triangle ;)
Pat O'Harus you mean square the circle
Felt that shit!
He drew out a dollar bill in your mind also
Back for my annual 1hr loop listen
This right here nigga is wat u call HIGH QUALITY!
+alex hernandez
this aint shit.. look up
Dead presidents 1 or 2
Your right
This is my favorite secret track from that mixtape wayy back.
"My life ain't rosy but I role with it..."
Ronald Masinda can you explain that line to me
T.B.E His life isn’t easy or just fun and games, but he still goes with it and lives it
Rosey was the maid on the cartoon Jetsons, she had wheels for legs...there you go.
John Ellis Oh my god Jay Z is a genius 🤭
John Ellis 😉
"the benjamins go in a box under the floor" ...
save your fucking money, nobody hears it
HE MADE A 3RD ONE?!?!?!
Ikr?!!?!?!? I said the same thing when I found this today by looking for Dead Presidents 1
The 9ine God same thing I did hahaha
Lmao. At least y'all know now. Better late than never
@@rhf5448 fax
This was supposed to be on American Gangster but it wasnt finished yet
This Instrumental and Piano is the best thing about this song. It’s such a vibe
so smooth
Breyana Allen ikr
Ty fly sexy shit lmaoo nigga
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this track crossed my mind today
How am I just now hearing this? Damn
lol you slippinb
You and me both. Must have been a myth for me.
1st time smh
Dead presidents 3 by logic.. is better
You’re not by yourself...What album is this on?
I like this version a lot more than DP 2. The beat is oddly menacing and the lyrics more reflective than the first two iterations of this song.
Double entendres in that first verse is legendary.. “Yesterday I was needing this dough. Get it? I was kneading this dough..”
Triple entendre…I was “knee in this dough” I had a lot of it.
@@patelaakash267nah
Got to add the context before the line, makes it way more clever. “Like Lebron or Sebastian, high school graduates, straight to the league I ain’t waiting for my knee to blow, yesterday I was needing this dough.. get it, I was kneading this dough.
Best of the series. Late night, city lights music.
Still knocks in 2019. This is the 2020 energy. ‘Let me live out my dreams until my heart blow!’ Gawt damn.
I like how he used the AZ line “Washington’s go to wifey” from the music video.
He always uses lines from Friends like AZ. I notice it too. But I wouldn't call it a borrow, cause Jay wouldn't need to. Though Cam exposed most of the line borrows.
Spread Love Its....
I like how the horns are ducked off! Beautiful Track..
Currently in rotation..#ifyouwerecurious .
2023”
"I blow a digit on a diamond and St. Tropez visits".... GODDAMN🔥🔥🔥
My favorite Jay Z song
The darkness of this track fits the mindset of being on that grind and it’s money over everything…. It’s a dark place with flashing lights. The lights flash to let you know you still have time to get out. We all know why it’s dark. Good luck.
You couldn't express my feelings better than this. You drew the picture perfectly.
That second verse was absolutely ridiculous
That second verse was actually on Moment of Clarity from the Black Album.
Big facts
@@robbinhatchett4179 wow...I didn't know that
@@Sheeklouch151 I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or if you're serious, but yeah.
@@robbinhatchett4179 I was serious
The feeling this song gives me is indescribable
This track is dark with beauty at the same time. Like the movie Red Dragon or some shit
"Like LeBron or Sebastian, high school graduates. Straight to the league I ain't waitin for my knee to blow."
the other day I was kneading this dough
I love this song
I love introspective jay
🐐
Bumping this in 2024
said he was on them tiers where no tears can fall 🙇🏾♂️
Still here 2024 💯✊🏽
Grown man rap. Sit under a pergola with a cigar and sip some red wine. ✌🏽❤️
dead presidents 1,2 and 3 doesn't get better peace hov
My fav song! Shouldve been on American Gangster, this is lit 🔥
This song is like a victory lap, like 1996 Jay got back in the booth one more time to toast his own success and smell his flowers... And to show you, for once and for all time, exactly what he did to deserve it all 💯
Yesss... Yes, YEP!
Livin a certain kinda life allows an individual to paint vivid pictures plus being taught well put J in a class of his own i relate
One of his best songs and best beats hands down
Why does this feel like a James Bond song !! I’m young but I have to give Hov credit he sure knows how to set a vibe
The beat reminds me of an old school mob movie. I can picture the whole crew around a huge table wearing suits and cracking jokes while eating stuffed shells.
The original came out on Jay's first album where he was on his Teflon don shit .so this track he keeping things old school
I can not even say how that shhit is classic, oh wait like every piece of music he made. All of his projects has no era
The world needs him to release this!
Absolute classic...if Jay isn't on your rap Mt Rushmore you're wylin
Still listening 2024 and beyond
Who finds this song emotional?
The instruments in this song is a amazing classic.
Back when ppl thought bp3 was leaked... Str8 Classik
Hova is 50 years old today! Happy birthday Jay Z!
GOAT
This song is from an alternative timeline. Really cold.
Timelesss ⏰
Straight classic
2020 anyone?
ChanoNC here, bruhh
You already know, wish this was on Apple Music :(
🙏🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾
Yessir. 2020 and beyond.
Yesterday I was needing this dough....get it, kneading this dough. Damn Jay, just damn lmao!
I'd LOVE and PAY to hear leftover tracks from The Blueprint 1 sessions if any exist.
Is the "yesterday i was kneading this dough" a quadruple entendre ? You got kneading, needing & knee in then you got the ingredients to kneading dough & ... needing dough 🔥🔥🔥
BKB832000 then to end that bar with “as long as ya math is fast & you’re reading this slow” he knew what he did there lmao. Dude is a beast.
Triple don't even ask me how
Thays a stretch. Kneading this dough/needing this dough is all it was. A double.
Should've been on American Gangster final tracklist
I could drift for hours in this beat alone. Bring this shit back 2018
Jay Z's voice is too smooth, he just glides on the beat
Someone play this at my funeral as the obituary is being read....🙏
Me too
I'm loving this track... the beat is crazy....
Happy Birthday, Hov! Fellow Sagittarius! 💪🏾
For some strange reason every time I hear this song I think about Kobe🙏🏽
@Neil Hood not only that but bc I was bumping this heavy on the same day I found out he passed
Undisputed Best Of All Time
This session was a lot of fun I bet...
Never fall behind cos I think too forward...wow I love this verse
My soul was at peace when i found this video 😭 idk why it isnt on Tidal.. Dead Presidents II is cool and all but i just wanted to hear “the benjamins go in the stash box under the floor im off the presidents that represent me now ya know” thank you for posting this 😭😭😭😭😭
*out for
yesterday i was {kneading}this dough.....get it .....needing this dough
Straight to the League I ain't waiting for my knee to blow. Yesterday I was needing this dough get it needing this dough. I love it. Like Lebron or Sebastian high school Graduates. WOW
Kneading dough is how you make bread … he’s out of this world
He should've opened the Black Album with this instead of December 4th.
“December 4th” should have been the 2nd last track right before “My 1st Song” on “The Black Album”. It would have made more sense based on the song’s overall subject matter.
Matthew Worledge Totally agree. Well said!
Matthew Worledge nah man. TBA is perfect as is
TheGameboy1998 nah
TheGameboy1998 nah December 4th was the perfect intro
2022 we in here
Massive Classic
"The Washingtons go to wifey, you know how that go"-AZ