“Garden Of Peace” is almost fragile in its simplicity. Without accompaniment, playing on an acoustic grand piano with an electric piano overdub, Smith traces out a melodic “quiet place” to close out a tracklist dominated by Marcus Miller basslines and Donald Smith vocals
Decades later, Smiths “quiet place” would find a new popularity among hip-hop artists. Jay-Z sampled “Garden” for his 1996 Dead Presidents, a song which helped solidify his hip-hop icon status. In 2006, Mary J Blige sampled the melody in Take Me As I Am from her Grammy-Award winning The Breakthrough album. All in all, “Garden of Peace” has been sampled in almost 70 songs by a diverse range of artists; from Stacie Orrico to Meek Mill.