1. Jay-Z “Takeover” (2001)
Album: The Blueprint
With a bricolage of sources, this track foreshadows the intent of Kanye’s modern production style. He throws a heavy bass and melody sample from The Doors’ “Five to One” over Jim Morrison’s grumbling utterances, evocative of the Otis Redding and Curtis Mayfield vocal samples to come over a decade later on Watch the Throne. The David Bowie “fame,” “lame,” and “brain” line injections hilariously contrast with Jay’s laidback, chuckling diss-style. Kanye rounds out his sample picks with the “we run New York” line from KRS-ONE’s “Sound of Da Police.”
This beat is both nasty and relaxed, much like Jay-Z himself, which makes it a perfect musical pedestal for Hov to perform some holistic arithmetic (“one hot album every ten year average”) on Nas’s nineties discography. Kanye’s hand in this song may have helped put it at the top of Complex’s list of diss tracks. If we’re just talking instrumentals, I’ll let Kanye himself tell you: “The nigga got the “laaaaaaaaaaame” in the back, that shit is crazy creative dog. I know ain’t none of y’all trying to compare the Takeover beat to the Ether beat. Are you serious?”
really? the takeover as number 1? smh
i’m not reading 26 different pages for what’s spose to be 1 fkin list! greedy bastards just want ad-view money.
I think this is accurate list with the exception of a few tracks( spend the night-marey carey, wouldn’t get far- game, a star is born- jay z )
Too lazy to go through whole list, but Through The Wire should at least be in top 5
Very nice list! Ya’ll shoulda put Camron’s Dead Or Alive, Do Or Die’s Paid the Price, Freeway-Hear The Song.
This track isn’t a Bette Midler sample, they had to recreate it in order to clear. 5iveit
All I know is “Through The Wire” and “Down”(Cam’Ron) are some energetic azz beats
Do Or Die – Higher was one of my favorites
An 88 Keys list would be awesome
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I thought Spaceship should be on this list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBmIkFIO19U&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLE55B6C48D8AA5973