Sound Alike? Pt. 2

My homie Five from the Faculty, did an awesome song titled, "I Am". One day while listening to Nas's "Nas Is Like", I couldn't help but notice the similarities between both songs lyric-wise, so I called up Five and asked him if he was inspired by the Nas record. He replied, "No!", but that I wasn't the first person to tell him that and as a matter of fact he took such statements as a "compliment". Well wouldn't you, if you got compared to Nas?

Just to give you a heads-up, here's the Nas record in question:

And here is Five's "I Am":

SOUND ALIKE? PT.1

So here's a segment I hope to keep coming with on my blog, it's called, "Sound Alike?", where are take two songs that sound somewhat identical be it lyrics or production-wise. So for the first post of it's kind, we have Jay-Z "Public Service Announcement" (2004) produced by Just Blaze and Common's "Misunderstood" (2007) produced by Devo Springsteen. Each track samples previous songs, but would you believe it, they don't sample the same songs, yet they sound alike. First off is Jay-Z's "P.S.A", followed by Common's "Misunderstood". Listen to the bass. The one on Jay's "P.S.A" is more uptempo, while the one on Common's seems slowed down.

Jay-Z's P.S.A:

Interesting fact: Not to add fuel to the fire, but while looking at the track-list of Jay-Z's Black Album, I noticed the 9th track is "99 problems". On the track info it reads thus: "9-99 problems". Turn that shit upside down! HA! HA! HA! HA! (Sorry Jay, it seems you have 666 problems, but a bitch ain't one... as your wife constantly reminds us!)

By the way, here's the main record Just Blaze sampled for P.S.A. It's by a group called Little Boy Blues and this record is from believe it or not 1968:

And here is Common's Misunderstood:

Here's the record Devo Springsteen sampled for "Misunderstood" from the legendary Nina Simone: