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  • If u disliked this song u just a plain old hater.

  • My G-Maw hipped me to this back in 92.

  • Violadores del verso-La ciudad nunca duerme

  • Man so this is where Jayz Got it from. haha. I should of known they sampled somebody else with talent. haha

  • makes me think back. jumping into the regal to creep over old girl's house.

  • just loving it !!!

  • this is what im talking about. classic...

  • Extremely SMOOTH!!!!!

  • damn. so smooth

  • This is a night time song for me. For doing night time shit.

  • G's up hoes down - Snoop

    Can I live - Jay-Z

  • hey look i'm a solja boy fan and i like issac hayes

  • why even watch this if you are going to dislike?

  • bad ass!!!

  • @kashill1 good ass

  • si vuelvo a, si vuelvo a.......

  • DJ SCREW - BIG MOE

  • can i liveeeeee

  • dead presidents all day baby rollin in the o.g continental ... look of love thas deep people........ oldiez101

  • REAL TALK I was born in 1985 BUT THE YEAR I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BORN 1975 INSTEAD that way I would have grew up to music like this during the 70's, 80's and 90's! I ALWAYS choose the OLD SCHOOL "Real Music"! I know three or more artist that sample this track Snoop Dogg, Jay Z, Ashanti, list goes on ETC... BUT No matter what this SONG IS THE 1ST REAL DEAL the rest come's last!

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  • THE PICTURE...SAYS IT ALL.

  • Miss you, man.

  • Facção Central - Detenção sem Muros - Gangsta Rap from Brazil

  • IT'S CAN I LIVE NOT DEAD PRESIDENTS

  • Dead Presidents :D

  • CAN I LIVE!!!!!!!

  • Irv Gotti Great musical midn

  • rest in peace...maistro

  • this song makes me angry for passion and happy about feeling in the first place...

  • inhaleeeeee ....... exhaleee

  • sit back and roll one up to this shit!!

  • So much of this is missing in mainstream music of today. sorry, but they cant compete or even duplicate this sound.

  • Perfection we miss you chef......

  • Ever since I saw "Dead Presidents" in the theatre, this song always takes me back to Larenz Tate's character battling his post-war trauma.

  • While im watching every nigga watching closely/

    My shit is butter for the bread they want to toast me/

  • CAN I LIVE??

  • This is some OG GANGSTA SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @LLCoolTurd AGREE WITH YOU G

    BLASTING FOOS WITH THIS JAM RIGHT HERE

    CREEPING UP

  • So sampleable it is insane

  • ohh gaad i cant believe i found it.... i heard it in dead presidents and i was like dat shit

    be off da chain son !!!!

  • dead presidents... classic.

  • How can you dislike this

  • r de rumba genio

  • Thumbs Up if you first heard this masterpiece song in Dead Presidents

  • @doobyboy21 Sorry babyboy I heard this masterpiece when I was just old enough to discover girls. Talk about a good starting place with the Ladies.

  • @doobyboy21 ...u mean 'can i live'?

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  • @Threal23 what are you talking about ? i'm talking about the movie Dead Presidents

  • @Threal23 Bruh... he's talking about Dead Presidents the movie, not the song with Jay-Z.

  • La ciudad nunca duerme

  • dead presidents until i'm a dead president

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  • wow men...no coments for this...

    classic 4ever

  • Rain on me - Ashanti

  • i like the pusha t freestyle itsbad azz but this is better 

  • SNOOP DOGG sampled this.

  • @cheetie72 and jigga^^

  • CAN I LIVE

  • Snoop dogg sampled this.

  • @cheetie72 violadores del verso sampled this - La ciudad nunca duerme

  • @bastianyankee Never heard.

  • This version is a true representation of A BLACK MAN and his mating calls for intimacy . lol Only we men can cry out like the way Issac is doing in his version of the LOOK of Love. Add his LONG VERSION to your "romantic-mood" playlist. It is sure to speak to your spouse in ways which only your unique LOOK OF LOVE can express. So get busy. wink, wink. ;)

    LONG LIVE THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE!

  • @devoutman Your right. this whole soundtrack defines true black soul power. Not in a racist way though.

  • This makes me appreciate Jay Z sooo much more

  • CAN I LIVEEE!!

  • This music just makes you want to lay back with your girl and make love all night.

  • Isaac Hayes was and will always be one of the dopest composers... this and all his other tracks transcend music.... these joints are EPICS... i know they are covers but nobody can do it like him

  • Isaac Hayes was and will always be one of the dopest composers... this and all his other tracks transcend music.... these joints are EPICS

  • THISS IS ALOT BETTA THAN ASHANTI'S VERSION!!!! DUH!!! LOL

  • I always listen to these classic from the 70's and im 22 born in 1989 sometimes i wish i was from that era of the 70's music was too much man

  • b boy nation unite! 

  • rain on me??

  • Excellent.

  • Cadillac, grown man music...

  • dead presidents

  • Can I Live?

  • la ciudad nunca duerme -violadores del verso

  • jay-z sampled this for 'can i live' in RD.

  • @indnameof they didnt even really put much work into chopping it up, sounds like they just looped it. If your into beats check some out on my page

  • @madgame1000 Why even chop it up though, Issac set up perfectly to be lifted as is

  • @indnameof Frankie too

  • 5 dislikes.. are you serious??? I guess some folks can not appreciate pure music..smh

  • @jfizzle1229 You mean appreciate real PURE BLACK POWER SOUL.

  • @jfizzle1229 That's because they're some little punk ass souljah boy fans

  • ooh Great Song

  • definitely sampling this one.

  • @OvenFreshBeats Jay z already has. Search for Jay z Can I live

  • wow this what ashanti used for her rain on me track....

  • @jaykid0913 you just realized that lol

  • this that cruising type beat something you vibe too. I hate he changed the beat.

  • GREAT RYTHEM

  • BIG BIG UP!!!

  • the part @ 0:51

  • kriss kross sampled this on Da Bomb

  • Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck this sample this sample OMG OMG

  • This is that Public Gangsta Big Pimpin' Shit!

  • it seems that 4 people don't have or know anything about Tthe Look Of Love!

  • Classic.. Im in love wit dis..

  • can i live

  • "put the lighter out, with your pyromaniac ass!"

  • @roscoegino dead presidents

  • Did people dislike this song because it's the shorter version??

    -Cold Phonic

  • good music!!!!

  • I know that's right. Papadoc73. Pure Poetry. LOL!

  • The best sample of this by far is G'z up hoes down i don't understand all of this can i live talk

  • Snoop Dogg

  • The first 50 seconds are amazing.....boom....boooom....­boooooooom

  • greatttt man my child hood. my old man use to play this when i was a kid. i still luv it. thx. u tube. thx. MR. HAYES.

  • :)) just the instrumentals made my heart beat faster ♥ love it!

  • Got to play Mr. Isaac Hayes

  • Dusty Springfield

  • Jay-Z sample this on can i live

  • this music is classic!!....this is when music was 'Real"

  • im in my early 30s... im a 70s baby, i remember all these songs yo, my moms and pops used to groove to this real soulfull shit. sometimes i wish i could go back to the 70s for just one day in my 30s and expierence what it was like. peace.

  • @josephlongjhonson Ahh, yes... The '70s... I remember them well... Back in the good old days when anything that you could possibly catch was curable by penicillin... Unlike today... No fun being single these days... Kind of like playing Russian Roulette, I guess... Oh well... Life sucks... But the alternative is not that great either...

  • @grumman581 life doesnt have to suck friend ... search for the truth and if you find it , live by it . peace

  • @josephlongjhonson I've found the truth... LIFE SUCKS...

  • @grumman581 did life suck in the 70s ? maybe its time to dance to a new tune . do you believe that theres a god ?

  • oh yea... isaac is a legend, my nigga. may god be pleased with you bro. anthony.

  • So fuckin smooth

  • Chef's a damn good singer.

  • Dead presidents, Menace 2 society, Colors, New jersey drive, Boys in the hood, New jack city the best black movies ever

  • I agree with @Amarioism i'm 21 to all I listen to Barry White, Teddy P., Billy Paul, The Isley Brothers, Maze feat. Frankie Beverly love ol skool music

  • Im 21 and i kan honestly say i grew up 2 music like this..The Isleys,,Johnny Taylor, Al Green, and The Teddy P's...and still 2 this day enjoy classic, timeless music like this..love it..

  • Jay-z : Can I live ssooooo bomb!

  • not even halfway through, and this song has me traveling thru it s vibrations and feeling every chord, drum, snare, every everything... speechless.

  • 50CENT - BABY COME BACK

  • Can I Live?

  • "Can I Live" by Jay-Z "Neva Go Back" By Special Ed "Rain On Me" by Ashanti Rain On Me Remix by Ashanti Featuring Charli Baltimore, Caddillac Tah and Ja Rule "G'z Up, Hoes Down" by Snoop Dogg "Road 2 No Return" by 20-2-Life "Niggaz Strugglin" by Compton's Most Wanted "Never Run" by Trey Songz "If I Had You" by Frankie My Heart Belongs to You "Stand Strong" by Smif N' Wessun "Lah Cinta" by Utah Jazz "Hoe Pulla" by Juicy J & Project Pat feat. V-Slash "Da Bomb (Original)" by Kris Kross
  • @trustmc LL Cool J- Hollis to Hollywood, The Lost Boyz-Is this the part. Man alot of rappers have sampled this lol. This is a really good song can't believe I never heard it before.

  • @trustmc La ciudad nunca duerme - Violadores del Verso :)

  • @trustmc Great list of all the wannabees and copy cats who can't create their own jams

  • @lrich65184 You know what a sample is?

  • @lrich65184 Byt he way all these cats he said on the list are just makin ugly music but people that makes good music use this sample!!

  • @trustmc

    You Forgot "Kill or Be Killed" by Esham.

  • @Twisicc and American History X

  • @babylonkid

    Hells Yes.

  • grooviest thing ive ever heard

  • CAN I LIVE

  • Issac Hayes was a BAAAAAADDD man

  • This is serious music men...This time was magical and i mean it...

  • THIS IS CLASSIC SOUL MUSIC. REST IN PEACE ISAAC

  • OH MAN I WAS 9 years old when I heard this off of Dead Presidents! Man it's been a while this and Walk on by! Man CLASSIC!

  • 1:29-1:55 Iz My Part

  • @fd2009dtown Thats my favorite part of the song too. You can create a soulful R&B song off that part.

  • Anybody else notice, this song sped up a bit is 'Gz Up Hoes Down' by Snoop Dogg - I had no idea he took it from this fella, Isaac Hayes is my new hero!

  • que buena rola esto si es musica no esas mierdas de regaemierton !!!!

  • Jay Z and Ashanti sampled this tune!! Can I Live and Rain on me!! Thats how you KNOW this is MUSIC!!!! REAL MUSIC!!!!

  • Now I Wanna Jus Wanna Watch "Dead President's".

  • @Twisicc have you watched it yet? just like the soundtrack, this movie is a classic

  • ina 1986 caddy ridin slow down the ave jus puffin

  • this is what u listen to late at night on the strip..riding in a big continental or a big cadi..only old school though my friends...with Tito in the back rolling up a big nasty one...ooh..weee...

  • Man...how smooth is that? How do you make somethin that smooth...butter!

  • Excellent. His voice is so wonderful.

  • oooooooooo classic

  • the real question is, can i live ??

  • Sexiest intro ever...

  • real music in effect!

  • everybody sampled this

  • Softs lights your lover in your armes and this paying in the back ground very nice

  • Softs lights your lover in your armes and this paying in the back ground very nice

  • Jay-Z can i live.

    Best instrumental ever!!!!!!!

  • man this song relax my mind when im gettin high my first time hearin this song was on a screw tape.

  • Miss the man!!!! Thanks for posting this song.

  • this is a song a pimp would play when hes cruising around in his low rider

  • This true feel-good soul music! Reminds me of sittin in the yard on sunny day with ur peeps..smokin, laughin, drinkin....whatever yo thang, as they used to say...good times! Ole skool all day long....

  • Então foi daqui que o Facção Central fez o

    sampler?

  • this song's the shit!

  • I can hardly wait to hold you . . . feel my arms around you . . . how long I've waited . . . waited just to love you . . .mmmm . . .. hmmm

  • Now, that I have found you...DON'T GO! LOL!

  • LOL !!!!!

  • @papadoc73 *in loud drunk shouty voice* ...now that I have found you... love... of love...awwwww... its on your face... ooo... that look... that time can't erase... BE MINE... TONIGH-IGHT... AND LET THIS BE THE START OF SO MANY GROOVY-NIGHTS-LIKE-THIS..." (guzzles beer, raises hand in the air, *shouts "whoooooo - - Issac Hayes #1" vomits on self and passes out...)

  • @EddieLandsberg you funny eddie...lol

  • @papadoc73 that part is good ;)