“I’m the Magnificent”
Special Ed’s breezy 1990 hit sampled two Jamaican music classics: Desmond Dekker’s “(007) Shanty Town” and Dave and Ansel Collins’ “Double Barrel”—good enough for No. 4 on our Toppa Top 10 reggae samples in rap songs list. In a nod to this classic tune, Rick Ross featured Ed on a remix of his unrelated 2009 single “Magnificent,” and Ed even makes a cameo in the single’s video.