Anything
JAY-Z
“Anything” is a Jay-Z single found on Beanie Sigel’s 2000 album The Truth. It was also was included as a bonus track on the European version of Jay-Z’s Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. Similar to the use of the Annie sample in “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)”, Anything samples “I’d Do Anything” from the British musical Oliver!.
Jay-Z admitted to Angie Martinez in a 2009 interview on the BET program Food for Thought that he hoped the song would be a success like “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” due to their similarities but was surprised when it wasn’t, saying, “I dropped the record and then nothing”. The song did, however, achieve moderate success in the UK reaching #18 on the singles chart.