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“Can I Live” / “The Look of Love” - Irv Gotti set the mood for Jigga’s hustler anthem from Reasonable Doubt “Can I Live,” which took a page from the book of classic composers Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Hov’s version, however sampled a reworked version of "The Look of Love" popularized by the late great Isaac Hayes with a '70s backdrop that eventually made it Black Moses’s own. (Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
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