Dead Presidents (song)
Dead Presidents is a song by rapper Jay-Z off his first album, Reasonable Doubt. The record was the second official single off the album after "Can't Knock the Hustle". The song's chorus uses a sample from The World Is Yours (song) by Nas. The use of this sample is fairly notable in hip-hop history as both Nas and Jay-Z would later feud in 2001. Both rappers discussed the merit of the sampling in the song in individual "diss" records. The song would also officially end the feud between the two rappers, as Jay-Z and Nas performed the song at Jay-Z's 2005 "I Declare War" concert.