"What More Can I Say" is a song from rap artist Jay-Z's studio album '' The Black Album''. It was released as a street single simultaneously as the official single " Change Clothes". It premiered on Hot 97 on October 22, 2003 and was the first track from ''The Black Album'' to be heard by the public. The song includes additional vocals from Vincent "Hum V" Bostic and was produced by

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. The intro has a sampled monologue by

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from the film ''

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'', the song also samples "Something for Nothing" by

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from their self-titled album released in 1973. This sample prompted Jay-Z to quote a The Notorious B.I.G. lyric as he was featured on that song. The quote appears immediately after the song addresses accusations of Jay-Z stealing lyrics from The Notorious B.I.G.

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is mentioned in the song with Jay-Z stating that his isn't "animated, like say a, Busta Rhymes". The song was sampled by T.I. in his song " Bring Em Out". On ''

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'', "What More Can I Say" is mashed up with

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". Rapper

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of OFWGKTA sampled it in his song "Jack and the Beanstalk" from his 2009 album, ''

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''. The song " Otis" from the collaboration album ''

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'' by

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and Jay-Z carries the following line "What more can I say?". It samples " Top Billin'" from American hip-hop duo Audio Two, who released the album ''What More Can I Say?'' in 1988.

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raps the line of the song " Do My..." which was released in the opening track featuring former labelmate Jay-Z, which he also sampled three years later from his 2000 album '' The Understanding''. Used as the outro to

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's radio show Sway in the Morning on Shade 45.

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