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Dead Presidents (song) of the sample from the chorus, you can hear the "Whose" from "Whose world is this?" from the beginning of the chorus of "The World is Yours". Jay-Z recorded a track called "Dead Presidents 3" around the time of "The Black Album" but it was never completed. The unfinished song was leaked onto the internet in the fall of 2007, around the release of "American Gangster". In it, Jay-Z referenced some of his lyrics from the original "Dead Presidents" and he used the sample but the sample was played in reverse and had a darker more atmospheric feel to it.