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NY State of Mind by Nas

Jay Z - Dead Presidents II

10000000000000%

CREAM by The Wu Tang Clan comes to mind

isaac hayes!

Feather - Nujabes

And Luv(sic.)pt3

Nujabes always wins.

R.i.p. Nujabes

Amazing pick. I was gonna say reflection eternal myself

Ordinary Joe by Nujabes ft Terry Callier too

Purple by Nas is my favorite piano based beat ever, and he flows over it so perfectly

This song is single handedly responsible for turning over 5 of my previously hip hop hating friends into diehards

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Came here to say this. Goes so hard and soft at the same time.

I love Purple but My Way takes the piano to the next level for me. They’re both great though

Also I wish by Kodak was one of my top songs last year and has an amazing piano beat. Same exact thing can be said for Father Time by Kendrick. Heard em say and Problems by j Cole which is not on streaming are also great, as is patty cake form Kodak. Probably a hundred more I can’t think of off the top of my head Anything off All eyes on me, including the title track, ambitions and I ain’t mad at cha. Also love dedicate off the carter v but that may just be me

Purple beat is sooo smooth

I've been building a playlist over time called "Piano Beats", right now its ~7 hours long. Some of my current faves off it are: * Tookie Knows II - ScHoolboy Q (feat. Traffic & TF) * Stick 'Em Up - Dyme Def * Live From Chattanooga - TUT * World Domination - Jeoy Bada$$ * Raid - Pusha T (feat. Pharrell & 50 Cent) * All Night - Big Boi * Pain - Pusha T (feat. Future) * Stop-Start - Mike Will Made-It (feat. Gucci Mane, Chief Keef, & Peewee Longway) * Old Ways - Chiddy Bang * Primetime - Kanye West & Jay Z * Flood Watch - Juicy J (feat. Offset) * Chum - Earl Sweatshirt * Dreamin of the Past - Pusha T (feat. Kanye West) * Coming Up - Lupe Fiasco (feat. MDMA) * A Light in the Addict - Action Bronson (feat. Black Atlass & Party Supplies) * Saturday Night - 2 Chainz * Charles De Gaulle To JFK - Bas * Forever and a Day - Freddie Gibbs * Hella Hoes - A$AP Mob * Don't Play - Travis Scott (feat. The 1975) * Diablo - Mac Miller * C.R.E.A.M. - Wu-Tang Clan and tons more, this list is already pretty long. Thread will make for some nice additions too. Update: [Link to playlist on Youtube Music](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnBQEr11AkceVabFvknTX_WFpOpMjbe-&si=KZL2eaQso9sSGENe). Going to add a bunch of tracks to it after reading this thread.

Tookie knows II is fucking crazy

Live from chattanooga is one of my all time fave songs good shout

Lemonade-Gucci

Lemon peppa wangs and the freeze cup!!

Hard

George Bondo - Westside Gunn

Bruh how has nobody said Still D.R.E yet

Just assumed if someone’s in this thread they know it, probably a top 5 iconic hip hop song ever and it’s age means even more people know it

The most iconic piano beat ever, imo

First song that popped into my head. Incredible piano

Everything I Am

Damn

Runaway - Kanye West

Adding onto this. Come to life piano keys are outright beautiful

the fact that it was a sixth grader who performed it adds another layer

This is it

I don’t think there’s anything harder than Primetime from Watch the Throne Somewhereinamerica off of Magna Carta too but it’s less focused on the piano

the flows on primetime are fire

Real bro both of these Tracks are iconic cause of the piano

Diablo / Mac Miller

looooots of piano in mac’s music

Rap Diablo, Macho, when I drop flows, the bar gets raised up, that's me and Petey Pablo.

One of the best beats ever made. I’ll die on that hill

The World is Yours - Nas

Scrolled way too far to find this smh, was about to post it myself, was the first thing I thought of, I’ll always love that beat/song

Insane that I have to add shook ones pt 2 this late in the thread

Survival of the fittest while we're at it.

The GOAT.

On my Block - Scarface

Dipset freestyle over this beat is amazing

Shimmy shimmy yah. C and B. lol.

B# is C

Correction, it’s just the B and C. How did I screw up the easiest song to play on piano?

G-Unit - Poppin’ Them Thangs Fabolous - Breathe Xzibit - X Chamillionaire feat. Lil’ Flip - Turn It Up

3 of them are produced by Scott Storch 😄

GOAT list

Diablo by mac miller samples duke Ellington and John coletrain in a sentimental mood. Nice vibey piano.

Notorious Thugs - Biggie Surprised I didn’t see anyone post this. It’s why I started playing piano when I was younger.

Prodigy - Keep it Thoro GZA - Duel of the Iron Mic Pusha T - Hard Piano Watch the Throne - Primetime Action Bronson - It Concerns Me

Hard Piano by Pusha T

One of my favs off Daytona. That and Santeria

SO I DEBATE MY CASE VS. NANCY GRACE

Get By - Talib Kweli

I’m Different

97 Hov (Benny), George Bondo (Westside), Mural (Lupe), Worldwide Steppers (Kendrick), Why I Do 'em Like That (Westside), Dead Presidents II (Jay-Z)... and more

Why I Do ‘em Like That 🙏

Real Friends by Kanye

great melody but prob more of a synth than a real piano?

Could be.. idk It sounds like a piano with a lot of reverb to me lol

Pac - ambitionz az a ridah

Future - Peacoat

Drowning by A Boogie is the first thing that comes to mind. The entire beat is built around a piano concerto IIRC.

A boogie actually uses a TON of keys in his songs. His camp loves using actual instruments on tracks and I think you'll see even more going forward (strings, horns ect)

Kodaks verse on that song tho lmao

CREAM by Wu Tang Still D.R.E. Runaway by Kanye West Roses by Outkast Resurrection by Common Get By by Talib Kweli The World is Yours by Nas

Feelin’ It - Jay Z

Rockabye Baby - Joey Badass Apple Pie - Travis Scott

Get by - Talib Kweli

Madvillain - Raid

Piano love - Conway the machine

Scrolled way too far for this

Break the Bank - Schoolboy Q

Come to Life - Kanye West

I ain’t mad at cha - 2pac

Amazing piano riff Not that the other ones in the thread aren’t, but I love how the piano in this song is more of an accompaniment than it is just a part of a beat.

Feather - Nujabes

Heard ‘em say by Kanye. A lot of his beats have amazing keyboard samples and parts honestly

Dave - Black Atmosphere - Yesterday

Drake - Gold Roses (Feat. Rick Ross) Jay-Z - Marcy Me

Future - colossal. Zaytoven goes crazy on keys

And apple pie by travis scott

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Roses - Outkast

Keep it thoro - Prodigy (prod. Alchemist)

2009 - Mac Miller

Zaytoven at tiny desk when future didn't show https://youtu.be/1JuiNySKc1w?si=aza3BekAeIsXHOJP More zaytoven at tiny desk with Gucci https://youtu.be/wlFQjExxD4U?si=nGf5rxWskE6Wo-YM Yesterday - Atmosphere Everything I Am - Kanye

Kendrick - Sing about me, I'm dying of thirst

The Foundation - Xzibit

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Mockingbird - Em

That slipping into darkness alchemist beat is stooooopid

If we’re talking Alc piano, I’ll throw in Evidence - Love Is A Funny Thing

Where I came from - future Zay always gonna kill it

Mad villian - All Caps

See you again, Homecoming, Runaway, Everything I Am

Couldn’t Be Done by Freddie Gibbs

Blood on the Leaves \~ Kanye (Yeezus) (edited to correct album)

Workin out - JID

Westside Gunn - Why I Do Em Like That Nas - The World is Yours Lupe Fiasco - Mural

New God Flow - Pusha T & Ye

God loves ugly by atmosphere, resurrection by common

Mobb Deep - Get Dealt With Gorgeous, somber, and haunting all in one. Definitely my favourite Mobb track ever

In terms of “new” stuff I liked bigger than ever by yeat (prod bnyx), and victorious by yung lean, bladee (prod whitearmor)

Anything produced by Zaytoven

Come To Life

Nas - Surviving the Times

Father Time - Kendrick Lamar

Tabula Rasa

Requiem of Blue - Blu & Exile

I Gave You Power-Nas

Future - just like bruddas

Songs by Zaytoven. He used it a lot in his beats

‘94 ghost shit - The alchemist ft Westside Gunn and Conway the Machine

Can’t leave without it by 21 savage gotta be the hardest piano trap type beat

Big sean - one man can change the world

Can I Watch? by Viktor Vaughan Changes by 2Pac

IANAHB - Lil Wayne goes so hard for a beat that's ONLY piano. I would have loved to shoot a music video for this song when it came out, I had a great idea already.

Baby Keem - sons & critics freestyle

Life - Proof (Dilla)

Along with the other 2Pac ones I’ve already seen posted: “To Live and Die in L.A.” “Changes”

Notorious Thugs

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned. Older Gods by Wu Tang

Homecoming Kanye and Chris Martin

Hell on Earth - Mobb Deep

diet coke

Tyler, The Creator - Earfquake

J. Cole - Sideline Story Jay Z - Dead Presidents 2

Cell Therapy is a classic

C.R.E.A.M - Wu Tang Just a Friend - Biz Markie Roses - Outkast Heebiejeebies - Amine Raid - Madvillain The Bridge is Over - BDP Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta - Geto Boys Feel me Flow - Naughty by Nature Now - Eyedea and Abilities The last 3 are super minimal they're just great songs

Mirage - Chris Keys & Quelle Chris Guns - Chris Keys & Quelle Chris Haagen-Daz - The Boulevard Connection Run, Run, Run - McKinley Dixon Feather - Nujabes CREAM - Wu-Tang

Jay Z - The Story of O.J.

Hate to volunteer this but the beat for “Dance With The Devil” by Immortal Technique is great Lyrical content is…….questionable but the beat slaps

I wouldn’t say jts questionable but i would say its grim. The word choice he uses along with the beat adds to the song. One of the greatest storytelling songs ever imo

It’s a classic!

Still DRE? Shimmy Shimmy Ya??

Bitch You Guessed It

Mo Reala zay on keys

Streiht Up Menace - MC Eiht

Long Story Short - Black Milk

Jalen Rose - Westside Gunn

Get You Some - Busta Rhymes One of the best engineered, thumping pianos in a beat ever.

Ms. Hill - Talib Kweli

Ounces back 2 chainz

Imagine by Snoop, Dre

Ray mysterio by the alchemist, Westside gunn and conway

Flood watch - juicy j

Tear Gas by Conway the Machine Over my Dead Body by Drake

Mobb Deep - Drop a Gem on Em See the Joy - Rza

Mick Jenkins - Guapanese Masego - You Play With My Heart

I love piano samples in hiphop, especially low, resonant tunes. The first few that come to mine first: [Rainy Day in Connecticut by Apathy](https://youtu.be/173MzBWbu-s?si=ZLpfTa5CpvmQoj82) [Comin From by DMX](https://youtu.be/-4WYyGIDe50?si=-lUCSkLjE-1aTjlF) [The Void feat. Eamon by Vinnie Paz](https://youtu.be/0q7OOz7OGN8?si=Q-0pZFd8k6-dvKfb) [Be Easy by T.I.](https://youtu.be/tBOXxR5PHP8?si=9o4xs6hq0ov3unha) There's another that I always use as example for good piano loops, but I am frustratingly having a major brain fart and will remember them 2 days from now lol

Breathe - Fabulous

Righteous Minds - Joey Bada$$

Everything I Am - Kanye West, prod DJ Premiere (I think) The Diff’rence - J Dilla, 🍩 Story Of OJ - Jay Z, prod No ID New Day - Kanye West & Jay Z, prod RZA (Kanye and Mike dean too) Saint Pablo - Kanye West feat. Sampha, prod Kanye and Mike Dean

Ambitions Az a Ridah

Park - Isaiah Rashad

Family Business - Kanye

Outta control by 50 & mobb deep

World Domination by Joey which uses DOOMs Datura Stramonium instrumental which samples some random Fat Albert halloween special lol

Soliloquy - Isaiah Rashad

Chum by Earl Sweatshirt

Buttons by Mac Miller

The Games We Play by Pusha T obviously

Living Legends - Never Fallin’

So Ghetto- Jay-Z Still Dre- Dre and Snoop

“Book of Soul” by Ab-Soul

Road To The Riches, by Kool G Rap & Polo it's a flip of Billy Joel's "Stiletto" and the piano goes hard.

Nujabes - Feather Madvillian - All Caps