Why are there two versions of Dead Presidents

[KG1]

Anyone have a MP3 of the first version? I think I only have it on mix tapes after all these years.

Just take video and go to youtube to mp3 and download it as mp3

 

[Big Mel]

meh. if i have to i will. rather a mp3.

 

[Doome]

NEEDING THEM MP3 LINKS THO....


BUT IM SCHLEEP!

 

[Uptown WaYo87]

dp 2 got my fav jay line ever


i dabbled in crazy weight, without rap i was crazy straight/partna im still spending money from 88'

as a kid i remember hearing that and going

 

[CrimsonTider]

2 is greater than 1 from a pure rapping standpoint.

DP2 is lyrical excellence.

 

[Won Won]

Jay-Z - Dead Presidents.mp3

 

[Enzo]

It had something to do with the first version being too street and not being radio friendly or something.

 

[bigmanharris]

both are great. 1

 

[L68]

somone make a megamix with all the verses

 

[Mr. Negative]

I think back to this song and Reasonable doubt in general....

Hov's accent or rap voice or whatever used to be SO pronounced and crisp sounding.... like all his syllables were ULTRA pronounced.

Listen to it, seriously. All of his words are chopped up by the syllable. Like she's not rhyming or speaking the whole words, but reading separate syllables that happen to sound like whole words to the listener.

By second album, it had more smoothed out to a lazy-ish drawl.

But it's the small things like that. Like "chea" used to be his adlib. I think he stopped using it heavy around Vol. 2? Before it was like "chea" at the beginning of every song, used at the end multiple times like the preemo beat song or whatever.







By the way. Nas is the GOAT.

 

[GeeEffKay]

Doubt there is some big reason for it. He must've liked the beat and wanted to spit over it again. Both version are great so I ain't complaining.

 

[C-Styles]

Dead Presidential, Politics as USUALLL, PLOW!!