Nas birthed jayz simple as , even styles P said on Nas b day few days ago . Nas influenced every rapper biggie pac em lil wayne 50 cent etc . The goat 🐐 easy with the best album ever illmatic
@raspsalmcivilination776 really? Notorious B1 big daddy, he bited heavy d flow + Nas album cover and storytelling. Nas dissed him first coward too scared to even mention Nas name on ' kick in the door ' . About Jay-Z ain't worth commenting, how about you do your homework first kid lol 😆 anything else Thun ?
@raspsalmcivilination776 when someone lost an argument and can't admit Facts !!! Starts insulting like a little kid , I can easily tell you a American based on this level on intelligence. Any other hip hop lessons kid ?
Greatest diss ever. Nas Forever the N.Y king, every time you pause you should rewind 5 seconds so you don't miss the next bar. Fire reaction tho. Nas - You're da man
Hey, Sis. I like your energy and vibe. Ya'll youngins missed out on The Golden Era, and it's good to see Y'all tryna back track and get Edumekcated on The Classics. FYI, that "F-Jay-Z" line at the beginning is actually a Tupac sample from another song. Nas is the GOAT, and anyone who's a fan of Hip Hop needs to know and understand his Genius.
That Ether, That shh that make your soul burn slow 🔥 The craziest part about this Ether arguably one of the best disses of all time.. He Ethered Jay with an edited version of Ether. The original was said to be too hard & savage they didnt let him release it & it was said it had a harder beat. He still made history with this version. I can relate to your conclusion about being humble but at the same time don't come after me or you gon' learn today! Hahaa
Most of you all don't know anything about Nas! Nas made history with his first album Illmatic which is seen as one of the greatest albums in Rap history! Nas ain't nothing new, Nas is Mount Rushmore! "Find this lyric "It Ain't Hard To Tell"
This will forever be a top 5 diss track, it’s even better If you knew their history and what Nas was talking about so ima tell you how they started beefing and a bit of what Nas mean. I’m a break it down year by year Mid-late 80’s: Many don’t know this but Jay started rapping before Nas (he’s 4 years older), in the mid to late 80’s he was with a Brooklyn MC called Jaz-O (that’s why Nas said you’re on Jaz dick), at that time Jay was rapping fast. Nas (and Tupac) joked about his video appearance in Jaz-O - Hawaiian Sophie music video. Early 90’s: Nas started rapping in 1991, after just one verse the hip-hop scene said he’s the second coming of Rakim. Jay didn’t managed to get signed so he went to the streets and made decent money, Nas got signed for 600K 94: Nas dropped his debut Illmatic which is seen as the best rap album til this day. Jay had Illmatic before it was released, he was a big Nas fan. 95: Jay came back to the music industry and started Roc-a-fella records. He made a track called ‘Dead Presidents’ he sampled Nas. He was such a Nas fan that he even sampled the remix version of ‘The world is yours’. Jay asked Nas if he could use the sample & if Nas could be in the video (Biggie & AZ was in the video), Nas said if you want to sample me then pay for it & I don’t want to be in the video. 96: Nas & AZ was supposed to be on Jay first album ‘Reasonable doubt’ on a track called ‘Bring it on’ but they never showed up to the studio which made Jay mad and he had to quickly replace them with Jaz-O and Sauce Money. A week after he released his debut album Nas release his second album ‘It was written’, it was the biggest album in the world at that time. Nas took shots at Jay on a track called ‘The Message’. From then on Jay & Nas took shots at each other from 1996-2001 97: When Nas said “who’s the best Pac, Nas & Big” it was a response after Jay said in his track ‘Where I’m from’ “I’m from where ni**as pull your card and argue all day about who’s the best MC Biggie Jay-Z or Nas”. Nas basically meant Jay you weren’t up there in 1997 and you’re still not up there in 2001. Biggie died in 97, he and Nas fought for the crown for king of NY. Nas and Biggie was friends but they also took shots and dissed each other. Nas didn’t only have beef with Jay, he had beef with Biggie, Tupac, 50 Cent, Prodigy from Mobb Deep, whole Roc-a-fella, whole Def Jam, Hot 97, Jeezy and many more Also in 97, Jay had a song called “The city is mine”, basically saying he’s king of NY after Biggie died. That’s why Nas said Biggie your man then you got the nerve to say you’re better than him, also saying he took Biggie rhyme, this is a proven fact, Jay did use Biggie rhyme & also used his unused beats Also around this time Jay slept with Nas baby mom (the world found out about this in 2001). Nas & his baby mom cheated on each other (there was rumours Nas was having a secret relationship with Mary J. Blige), one day she and Nas had a big argument so she slept with Jay (she knew him, according to her they was friends before that). She wrote a book about all of this, in it she says Jay was obsessed with Nas, that he had super rare Nas stuff in his appartment and that he used to ask her weird stuff about Nas. Ether became a verb, but also Nas coined the term Stan. Nowadays it means being a big fan of someone but Nas used the word as a verb for the first time on Ether. Eminem has a track called ‘Stan’, short for Stanley he was a obsessed fan of Eminem who ended up milking himself because Em didn’t respond to his letters. Nas saying Jay is a Stan is him saying Jay was completely obsessed with him 98: Jay drops Hard knock life and he becomes a big artist 99: Memphis Bleek (Jay’s artist) got involved in the beef. Nas took shots at him in his track ‘Nastradamus’, in the same album he had a song called ‘Come get me’, taking shots at Jay, Jay responded on his track ‘Come and get me’, Bleek dissed Nas Jay is continuing to get bigger. Nas was planning to drop a double album but some tracks got leaked so instead he dropped 2 albums in 99, I Am & Nastradamus. I Am sold well but people was disappointed with the album (it’s a good Album) and Nastradamus is to this day seen as Nas worst album Jay had a track called “Is that yo bitch”, taking shots at Nas & his baby mom. Jay said I fucked her while you wifed her. This is why Nas said you only dissing woman. Nas had a track called “You owe me”, The song is about Nas asking a woman for a sexual favor in return for him letting her wear his jewelry. In the music video Beyoncé was in it, and she was wearing Nas chains. When she got together with Jay the full video got deleted and nowhere to be seen til this day. In Nas baby momma book she said Beyoncé had a huge crush on Nas but Nas wouldn’t date her because Beyoncé has bad breath 2000: Nas responds to Bleek, he slapped him so hard Jay felt he had to intervene Nas & Mobb Deep was very close these times, Prodigy told Nas Jay was biting their style and they should go after him, Nas didn’t look at Jay as a big threat and stuck to taking shots and subliminals. Mobb Deep went at Jay 2001 (shit goes down): In 2001 their beef became official. Jay headlines Summer Jam 2001, he brought Michael Jackson with him. He plays his songs then decides to perform a unreleased track (Takeover). He dissed Prodigy as well as having a picture of a young Prodigy with ballerina clothes on stage. Then on the end he said “You guys don’t want it with Hov, asked Nas he don’t want it with Hov” (Hov is Jay nickname), the crowd went crazy. Nas responds with a freestyle where he disses Jay and Memphis Bleek & Beanie Sigel (Jay’s artist) Then Jay released his album ‘The Blueprint’ on 9/11 (unlucky for Jay), a hip-hop classic. On there is the full version of Takeover (the first official diss track towards Nas). He said Nas fell off and was garbage now, and said other stuff. Fun fact: Kanye West produced that track. Everyone at that time said Jay finished Nas, that Jay was the best rapper and that Nas fell off, that Jay was the king of NY Jay also had a track with Eminem called ‘Renegade’, Nas felt Em washed Jay on it, that’s why he said Eminem murdered you on your own shit And also the chorus on Ether when he said “ I will not lose”, he was mocking Jay. On Blueprint Jay had a called ‘U Don’t know’ on that track Jay repeatedly said “I will not lose” Months passed and Nas didn’t respond. And then on December 4 (On Jay-Z birthday lol) he released Ether. DJ Kay Slay (RIP) was the first to play it and it took off, every radio station played it even if they didn’t want to (Hot 97). No one expected Nas to come back this hard Another fun fact: It’s Tupac who said “Fuck Jay-Z” at the start, they slowed his voice down On the same day as Ether got released Nas also released a track called ‘Got yourself a Gun’, he sampled The Sopranos theme song. On the first verse he said “my first album had no famous guest appearances, the outcome I’m crowned the best lyricist”. That was a shot at Jay On his first album Nas only had 1 feature and it was AZ who was unknown at the time. On Jay first album he had big names like Biggie, Foxy Brown & Mary J. Blige. Mary even admitted she didn’t even know who he was she just did it for the money, but on her album she asked Nas to be on it Jay got triggered and responded on a track called ‘Supa ugly’. He used Nas - Got yourself a Gun beat. That’s when he said he slept with Nas baby mom Hot 97 did a poll, Ether vs Supa ugly, Ether comfortably won. As they was gonna announce Nas as the winner Jay stepped in the building and live on air apologised to Nas, Jay mom heard the Supa ugly track and she was so disappointed in Jay for dissing Nas baby mom and his at the time 7 year old daughter that she made Jay apologised. Jay who’s usually so confident & cocky looked so defeated. Everyone around Jay has said Jay knew he lost. Jay was so desperate for a rematch he wanted to arrange a PPV boxing fight between him & Nas On December 18 Nas dropped the classic album ‘Stillmatic’, the title meaning he still got it. To many surprise Nas dissed Prodigy on that album as well as Nature & Cormega, 2 rappers from his hood. Jay released his MTV unplugged album the same day 2002: Nas was supposed to headline Summed Jam 2002 but he never showed up. He went to Power 105.1 (he made them famous) and talked crazy, it’s a classic moment. He was mad at Hot 97 for not letting him do what he wanted. 10 years later we found out Nas had build a life-sized Jay-Z figure that he was supposed to lynch on stage, Nas was crazy! November 8: Eminem movie 8 Mile is released, on the soundtrack both Nas & Jay is on it. Jay had a normal track while Nas had a track called “U wanna be me”, taking shots at Jay saying he wants to be him November 12: Jay drops his album ‘Blueprint 2’ on that album he has a track with the same name where he again goes after Nas. Imo it’s his best diss track, it’s very underrated December 13: Nas dropped his album “Gods son”, his most personal album, his Mom had past. On that album he has a track called “Last real ni**a alive”, another Jay diss track. But this time he tells how the beef started 2003: Jay announces he will drop his last album ‘The black album’ then retire. He became the president of Def Jam. Nas still raps and take shots at Jay Comment 1/2
2005: August: Kanye drops his second album ‘Late registration’, both Jay & Nas is on it. Nas track called ‘We Major’ was Jay favourite track of the album, he told Ye that. It was so good you couldn’t deny it October: Jay announces a concert called ‘I declare War’ it was meant to be a show where he went against rappers but instead to many’s surprise Nas was there and they squashed their beef 2006: January: Nas signs to Def Jam, where Jay was president. Many saw it as Nas winning the battle but losing the war November: Jay-Z comeback, released his album ‘Kingdom come’, not a good album December: Nas released his album ‘Hip Hop is dead’, very controversial album. On it is the first Nas - Jay collab called ‘Black Republican 2007: Jay released his album ‘American Gangster’ after Denzel Washington movie American gangster. Nas was on it on a track called ‘Success’. On that song surprisingly Nas disses Jay, he said “worst enemies wanna be best friends, best friends wants to be enemies like that’s what’s in, but I don’t give a fuck walk inside the lion’s den” 2008: Nas & Jay was on Ludacris track ‘I do it for hip-hop’ 2009: Jay wanted Nas to be on Empire State of mind with Alicia Keys. Nas said he already had a song about NY (NY state of mind) so he declined the request 2013: Nas was on a Jay-Z track with Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams and Timbaland called ‘BBC’ from Jay album ‘Magna Carter holy grail’ 2018: Nas did a album with Kanye, it was supposed to come out before Jay & Beyoncé album but because of technical difficulties Jay & Bey album came out before, Beyoncé liked a tweet on Twitter memeing Nas. 50 Cent in a podcast claimed Jay was still salty for Ether and that Jay always drops same time as Nas to take away his shine (a lot of people thinks so) 2021: April: Nas & Jay was on DJ Khaled album on a track called ‘Sorry Not sorry’ with Beyoncé on the background vocals. They also shot a music video for it May: Nas & Jay was on DMX posthumous album ‘Exodus’ on a track called ‘Bath Salts’, it got nominated for the Grammy. It was a old song that they put on the album December: Nas dropped a surprise album called ‘Magic’ and to me personally it’s feels like he takes some shots at Jay, nothing serious but friendly competition. Calls himself the GOAT 2022: His album King’s Disease 3 drops and on a track called ‘Thun’ he says: “No beef or rivals they’re playing ether on tidal, brothers can do anything when they decide to, in a Range Rover dissecting bars from Takeover, sometimes I text Hova like ni**a this ain’t over, laughing” Hova/Hov Jay’s nickname and he is a part owner of the streaming service Tidal Since they squashed their beef Nas & Jay has become close friends, doing music together, performing together, made business together, goes to each other birthday parties, goes to other parties etc
Thanx for the play-by-play of the Entire Nas Vs. Jay Beef. I knew some of this, but not the whole saga. Most interesting tidbit was Nas dating Mary J. Blige. 🤔🙄 And Beyonce's halitosis. 😂😂 Bless Up.
Right?! You won’t find a reaction to this that fully satisfies you, not from a first reaction, not like the first time you heard this after waiting for this response, so I don’t blame them but try to understand a little before posting because this with little background research could’ve make anyone think, ok she is young and she appreciates the music, nothing, just shut up, literally just close your mouth, being wise is basically controlling your silence, why speak about something you have no clue about and even worse, you upload it to UA-cam, with few research with this vid you’d easily be over 100k by now
There were too many darts being thrown in this song that you kind of need to know in order to know, you know? 😅 This song is so hard hitting I don’t see anyone being able to survive this except for Jay because of how big he was and the loyal fan base that he had around that time.
Not for nothing, I enjoyed rockin out witchu. Your energy and vibe was all the way UP!! We was laughing the same way when this first dropped. Imma check out some more shit from you 💯✊🏿
Sweetie Nas is the greatest rapper/Mc in hip hop history with Nas it’s always about the lyrics Nas inspired 2pac Biggie and Jayz Another Response from Nas you should here is Last Real Nigga Alive he tells the story of why the beef between him and jayz started and how it ended lol. The song is called Last Real Nigga Alive
Jay Z did directly dis him on a track called "Takeover", and this is Nas' response. In Takeover, Jay dissed Mobb Deep, Nas, and what people never caught in to, he also dissed Cash Money Records. Rocafella was a week known hood dude in NY that died of AIDS. Most people don't know that, so don't feel bad.
New here. .But HAVE TO SAY IT... With all the truth coming out now about Diddy and Jay-Z, That Line he says, " Gay-Z and cock-a-fella records" , and "dick-suckin' lips" .. HITS Different. .LMFAO.. jay going down also.. NAS ALWAYS spoke the truth.. lol..
to this day Jay-Z is still jealous of Nas. Every time Nas getting ready to drop something Jay-Z gotta do something at the same time trying to take attention away from Nas. they did songs together after these disses but they still takes jabs at each other to this day.
We need more NaS reactions please. I GAVE YOU POWER REWIND UNDYING LOVE NY STATE OF MIND RARE HEAVEN MEMORY LANE IT AIN'T HARD TO TELL ONE LOVE ONE MIC I CAN
This was classic diss track. A lot of people sleep on this track. You gave a good reaction. Oh and you are so damn FINE!!!! Have a great day! Prace & love
This is not even the original Either. it was never released. they was saying Nas went harder and more disrespectful but he was told not to release it or it could ruin his career. the original Either beat was done by Swizz Beatz.
There is so much in the track that happened and you'd definitely would have to understand what was going on that lead to this. The craziest diss track ever.
Nas killed Jay and his crew by himself. Nas is in his own league nobody touch nas the greatest to ever touch the mic Jay always wanted to be nas. Nas lyrically destroyed jay , he broke hes character but the biggest thing is that he psychologically destroyed him. Ether became a verb for destroying someone for a reason.
I actually played this song after I saw a reel abot it on Facebook and damn I’ve been playing the whole week…chesked reactions on it ,why the was the beef and palyed both distracks but Ether😂😂😂that’s all im gonna say
Even the name Jay-Z came from Jazz O a rapper who used to be big that Jay-Z used to run after back in the day. "Damn you on Jazz Dick" was a diss cos back in the day it was important to rep yours and have your own style. Jay-Z kinda lit a fire under Nasir cos after the death of Biggie and Pac the fans were looking at Nas to step up but Nas sort of stepped back from the game a bit it was Jay repping for a minute which all culminated when he dissed Nas on the track "Takeover". Nasir wasn't even going to reply cos at that time his mum was in the hospital of which she died.
Biggie first G@y rapper who also fake bited everything from everyone ( notorious B1 big daddy thank me later ) and jayz continued with the biting tradition
If this beef would have been in this era and Nas dropped this now.... Jay would have had to switch genres like MGK when Killshot dropped. Or maybe just stopped rapping. This the hardest, most personal, lyrical diss track ever. Nas is the truth and a legend not just for this but also because of his impact on the culture. Love seeing younger cats get put up on classic tracks and artists. Great reaction.
Jay is not just biting. He's stealing. There is a compilation on youtube where they play old hip hop raps and tracks, and then Jay's "remakes" decades later (99 Problems and other famous tracks), and it's literally VERBATIM, line after line after line taking from older rappers. Whole phrases, whole verses, same flo.... for like 10 different songs. It's literally copy/paste. It's not paying homage, but literally stealing entire raps. That's how Jay came up. At least I can say this for his older music. Also, if there's this track record of 10 songs literally having copied phrases and melodies, that kind of shows you his mindset of how to approach rapping in general. He doesn't create out of thin air (he doesn't use his imagination, he isn't really "writing"), but rather takes existing work and repeats it. So even if most of his catalog sounds unique to him, it probably isn't. It's just that the things he "repeats" aren't recognizable to us; maybe older works from people we haven't heard of. But still, his style, his approach to rapping is "repeating other people's lines" A LOT. He went on a break (around 2009 or 2010 I think) and didn't release any music for about a decade as you all know. Then recently (2022) we got him as a feature on DJ Khaled's - God Did; and there I can't really tell if he's copying lines from anyone or not. It sounds like his own work - story telling is quite specific to his life. But who knows. Maybe this isn't his either. Honestly, he's more of a business man than a rapper, and his business is running very well.
You gotta react to 2Pac disses Bomb First (Jay Z plus more) Against All Odds (Nas plus more) and Hit Wm Up Bad Boy Diss, Ice Cube No Vaseline (NWA DIss Dr. Dre Easy E) Jadakiss and Styles P Sorry Ms. Jackson (50 Cent diss), The Game 100 Bars and Runnin (50 Cent Diss)
Hey react to The Game ft 50 cent - hate it or love it (if you haven’t heard it before) Or if you want a diss track, listen to; the Game - pest control (meek mill diss)
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Nas birthed jayz simple as , even styles P said on Nas b day few days ago . Nas influenced every rapper biggie pac em lil wayne 50 cent etc . The goat 🐐 easy with the best album ever illmatic
@raspsalmcivilination776 really? Notorious B1 big daddy, he bited heavy d flow + Nas album cover and storytelling. Nas dissed him first coward too scared to even mention Nas name on ' kick in the door ' . About Jay-Z ain't worth commenting, how about you do your homework first kid lol 😆 anything else Thun ?
@raspsalmcivilination776 when someone lost an argument and can't admit Facts !!! Starts insulting like a little kid , I can easily tell you a American based on this level on intelligence. Any other hip hop lessons kid ?
@@casteltheghettomonk4392what’s that American jab all about?
@@casteltheghettomonk4392dawg u saying a whole lot of nothing at all you in to deep 😂
@@trip9755 do your research first kid , either you learn something or don't waste people time
He said "I smile like a proud dad watching his only son who made it" hardest line ever. Jesus
The voice at the beginning saying "fuck jay z" is tupac.. it was from his song "lets be friends"
Nas dropped this song on Jay-Z birthday, December 4th, 2001.
Helluva chess move. December 4th will always be Ether day.... salute
Imagine Jay Z going to the club on his birthday and hearing this playing.
@@bigq2696 I know, right?! 😂
@@antoine1486 y'all know what lets just go somewhere else.
@@bigq2696lol it actually happened ma Nigga
Greatest diss ever. Nas Forever the N.Y king, every time you pause you should rewind 5 seconds so you don't miss the next bar. Fire reaction tho.
Nas - You're da man
Hey, Sis. I like your energy and vibe. Ya'll youngins missed out on The Golden Era, and it's good to see Y'all tryna back track and get Edumekcated on The Classics. FYI, that "F-Jay-Z" line at the beginning is actually a Tupac sample from another song. Nas is the GOAT, and anyone who's a fan of Hip Hop needs to know and understand his Genius.
She might've missed the Golden Era of radio but the Genre has always had elite lyricist.
That Ether, That shh that make your soul burn slow 🔥 The craziest part about this Ether arguably one of the best disses of all time.. He Ethered Jay with an edited version of Ether. The original was said to be too hard & savage they didnt let him release it & it was said it had a harder beat. He still made history with this version.
I can relate to your conclusion about being humble but at the same time don't come after me or you gon' learn today! Hahaa
Jay z got murdered SO hard that "Ethering" someone is an actual verb now 😂😂😂
There was a harder version of ether but nas' label said it was too harsh. So this version was released.
Wish I could’ve heard it man✊🏾
Thanks for this info I never knew this all these years because this was my favorite diss track and I immediately went to research this
@@chocolatemoniii3202 it's because he mentions aaliyah's plane crash. so they took it out 🤷🏽♂
It was that and more.. he also talked about how fat Joe and pun punked Jay at a club
I never thought Nas had it in him to make a diss song like this…the shocked factor of this diss was out of this world!!
He knew he had to slow it down and speak plainly to the people. He couldn't come with no super lyrical, abstract diss.
@@KtotheGtell em gang they ain’t knowing the knowledge
Nas released this song on Jay-Z birthday in 2001
Most of you all don't know anything about Nas! Nas made history with his first album Illmatic which is seen as one of the greatest albums in Rap history! Nas ain't nothing new, Nas is Mount Rushmore! "Find this lyric "It Ain't Hard To Tell"
This will forever be a top 5 diss track, it’s even better If you knew their history and what Nas was talking about so ima tell you how they started beefing and a bit of what Nas mean. I’m a break it down year by year
Mid-late 80’s: Many don’t know this but Jay started rapping before Nas (he’s 4 years older), in the mid to late 80’s he was with a Brooklyn MC called Jaz-O (that’s why Nas said you’re on Jaz dick), at that time Jay was rapping fast. Nas (and Tupac) joked about his video appearance in Jaz-O - Hawaiian Sophie music video.
Early 90’s: Nas started rapping in 1991, after just one verse the hip-hop scene said he’s the second coming of Rakim. Jay didn’t managed to get signed so he went to the streets and made decent money, Nas got signed for 600K
94: Nas dropped his debut Illmatic which is seen as the best rap album til this day. Jay had Illmatic before it was released, he was a big Nas fan.
95: Jay came back to the music industry and started Roc-a-fella records. He made a track called ‘Dead Presidents’ he sampled Nas. He was such a Nas fan that he even sampled the remix version of ‘The world is yours’. Jay asked Nas if he could use the sample & if Nas could be in the video (Biggie & AZ was in the video), Nas said if you want to sample me then pay for it & I don’t want to be in the video.
96: Nas & AZ was supposed to be on Jay first album ‘Reasonable doubt’ on a track called ‘Bring it on’ but they never showed up to the studio which made Jay mad and he had to quickly replace them with Jaz-O and Sauce Money. A week after he released his debut album Nas release his second album ‘It was written’, it was the biggest album in the world at that time. Nas took shots at Jay on a track called ‘The Message’. From then on Jay & Nas took shots at each other from 1996-2001
97: When Nas said “who’s the best Pac, Nas & Big” it was a response after Jay said in his track ‘Where I’m from’ “I’m from where ni**as pull your card and argue all day about who’s the best MC Biggie Jay-Z or Nas”. Nas basically meant Jay you weren’t up there in 1997 and you’re still not up there in 2001. Biggie died in 97, he and Nas fought for the crown for king of NY. Nas and Biggie was friends but they also took shots and dissed each other. Nas didn’t only have beef with Jay, he had beef with Biggie, Tupac, 50 Cent, Prodigy from Mobb Deep, whole Roc-a-fella, whole Def Jam, Hot 97, Jeezy and many more
Also in 97, Jay had a song called “The city is mine”, basically saying he’s king of NY after Biggie died. That’s why Nas said Biggie your man then you got the nerve to say you’re better than him, also saying he took Biggie rhyme, this is a proven fact, Jay did use Biggie rhyme & also used his unused beats
Also around this time Jay slept with Nas baby mom (the world found out about this in 2001). Nas & his baby mom cheated on each other (there was rumours Nas was having a secret relationship with Mary J. Blige), one day she and Nas had a big argument so she slept with Jay (she knew him, according to her they was friends before that). She wrote a book about all of this, in it she says Jay was obsessed with Nas, that he had super rare Nas stuff in his appartment and that he used to ask her weird stuff about Nas. Ether became a verb, but also Nas coined the term Stan. Nowadays it means being a big fan of someone but Nas used the word as a verb for the first time on Ether. Eminem has a track called ‘Stan’, short for Stanley he was a obsessed fan of Eminem who ended up milking himself because Em didn’t respond to his letters. Nas saying Jay is a Stan is him saying Jay was completely obsessed with him
98: Jay drops Hard knock life and he becomes a big artist
99: Memphis Bleek (Jay’s artist) got involved in the beef. Nas took shots at him in his track ‘Nastradamus’, in the same album he had a song called ‘Come get me’, taking shots at Jay, Jay responded on his track ‘Come and get me’, Bleek dissed Nas
Jay is continuing to get bigger. Nas was planning to drop a double album but some tracks got leaked so instead he dropped 2 albums in 99, I Am & Nastradamus. I Am sold well but people was disappointed with the album (it’s a good Album) and Nastradamus is to this day seen as Nas worst album
Jay had a track called “Is that yo bitch”, taking shots at Nas & his baby mom. Jay said I fucked her while you wifed her. This is why Nas said you only dissing woman.
Nas had a track called “You owe me”, The song is about Nas asking a woman for a sexual favor in return for him letting her wear his jewelry. In the music video Beyoncé was in it, and she was wearing Nas chains. When she got together with Jay the full video got deleted and nowhere to be seen til this day. In Nas baby momma book she said Beyoncé had a huge crush on Nas but Nas wouldn’t date her because Beyoncé has bad breath
2000: Nas responds to Bleek, he slapped him so hard Jay felt he had to intervene
Nas & Mobb Deep was very close these times, Prodigy told Nas Jay was biting their style and they should go after him, Nas didn’t look at Jay as a big threat and stuck to taking shots and subliminals. Mobb Deep went at Jay
2001 (shit goes down): In 2001 their beef became official. Jay headlines Summer Jam 2001, he brought Michael Jackson with him. He plays his songs then decides to perform a unreleased track (Takeover). He dissed Prodigy as well as having a picture of a young Prodigy with ballerina clothes on stage. Then on the end he said “You guys don’t want it with Hov, asked Nas he don’t want it with Hov” (Hov is Jay nickname), the crowd went crazy. Nas responds with a freestyle where he disses Jay and Memphis Bleek & Beanie Sigel (Jay’s artist)
Then Jay released his album ‘The Blueprint’ on 9/11 (unlucky for Jay), a hip-hop classic. On there is the full version of Takeover (the first official diss track towards Nas). He said Nas fell off and was garbage now, and said other stuff. Fun fact: Kanye West produced that track. Everyone at that time said Jay finished Nas, that Jay was the best rapper and that Nas fell off, that Jay was the king of NY
Jay also had a track with Eminem called ‘Renegade’, Nas felt Em washed Jay on it, that’s why he said Eminem murdered you on your own shit
And also the chorus on Ether when he said “ I will not lose”, he was mocking Jay. On Blueprint Jay had a called ‘U Don’t know’ on that track Jay repeatedly said “I will not lose”
Months passed and Nas didn’t respond. And then on December 4 (On Jay-Z birthday lol) he released Ether. DJ Kay Slay (RIP) was the first to play it and it took off, every radio station played it even if they didn’t want to (Hot 97). No one expected Nas to come back this hard
Another fun fact: It’s Tupac who said “Fuck Jay-Z” at the start, they slowed his voice down
On the same day as Ether got released Nas also released a track called ‘Got yourself a Gun’, he sampled The Sopranos theme song. On the first verse he said “my first album had no famous guest appearances, the outcome I’m crowned the best lyricist”. That was a shot at Jay
On his first album Nas only had 1 feature and it was AZ who was unknown at the time. On Jay first album he had big names like Biggie, Foxy Brown & Mary J. Blige. Mary even admitted she didn’t even know who he was she just did it for the money, but on her album she asked Nas to be on it
Jay got triggered and responded on a track called ‘Supa ugly’. He used Nas - Got yourself a Gun beat. That’s when he said he slept with Nas baby mom
Hot 97 did a poll, Ether vs Supa ugly, Ether comfortably won. As they was gonna announce Nas as the winner Jay stepped in the building and live on air apologised to Nas, Jay mom heard the Supa ugly track and she was so disappointed in Jay for dissing Nas baby mom and his at the time 7 year old daughter that she made Jay apologised. Jay who’s usually so confident & cocky looked so defeated. Everyone around Jay has said Jay knew he lost. Jay was so desperate for a rematch he wanted to arrange a PPV boxing fight between him & Nas
On December 18 Nas dropped the classic album ‘Stillmatic’, the title meaning he still got it. To many surprise Nas dissed Prodigy on that album as well as Nature & Cormega, 2 rappers from his hood. Jay released his MTV unplugged album the same day
2002: Nas was supposed to headline Summed Jam 2002 but he never showed up. He went to Power 105.1 (he made them famous) and talked crazy, it’s a classic moment. He was mad at Hot 97 for not letting him do what he wanted. 10 years later we found out Nas had build a life-sized Jay-Z figure that he was supposed to lynch on stage, Nas was crazy!
November 8: Eminem movie 8 Mile is released, on the soundtrack both Nas & Jay is on it. Jay had a normal track while Nas had a track called “U wanna be me”, taking shots at Jay saying he wants to be him
November 12: Jay drops his album ‘Blueprint 2’ on that album he has a track with the same name where he again goes after Nas. Imo it’s his best diss track, it’s very underrated
December 13: Nas dropped his album “Gods son”, his most personal album, his Mom had past. On that album he has a track called “Last real ni**a alive”, another Jay diss track. But this time he tells how the beef started
2003: Jay announces he will drop his last album ‘The black album’ then retire. He became the president of Def Jam. Nas still raps and take shots at Jay
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2005:
August: Kanye drops his second album ‘Late registration’, both Jay & Nas is on it. Nas track called ‘We Major’ was Jay favourite track of the album, he told Ye that. It was so good you couldn’t deny it
October: Jay announces a concert called ‘I declare War’ it was meant to be a show where he went against rappers but instead to many’s surprise Nas was there and they squashed their beef
2006:
January: Nas signs to Def Jam, where Jay was president. Many saw it as Nas winning the battle but losing the war
November: Jay-Z comeback, released his album ‘Kingdom come’, not a good album
December: Nas released his album ‘Hip Hop is dead’, very controversial album. On it is the first Nas - Jay collab called ‘Black Republican
2007: Jay released his album ‘American Gangster’ after Denzel Washington movie American gangster. Nas was on it on a track called ‘Success’. On that song surprisingly Nas disses Jay, he said “worst enemies wanna be best friends, best friends wants to be enemies like that’s what’s in, but I don’t give a fuck walk inside the lion’s den”
2008: Nas & Jay was on Ludacris track ‘I do it for hip-hop’
2009: Jay wanted Nas to be on Empire State of mind with Alicia Keys. Nas said he already had a song about NY (NY state of mind) so he declined the request
2013: Nas was on a Jay-Z track with Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams and Timbaland called ‘BBC’ from Jay album ‘Magna Carter holy grail’
2018: Nas did a album with Kanye, it was supposed to come out before Jay & Beyoncé album but because of technical difficulties Jay & Bey album came out before, Beyoncé liked a tweet on Twitter memeing Nas. 50 Cent in a podcast claimed Jay was still salty for Ether and that Jay always drops same time as Nas to take away his shine (a lot of people thinks so)
2021:
April: Nas & Jay was on DJ Khaled album on a track called ‘Sorry Not sorry’ with Beyoncé on the background vocals. They also shot a music video for it
May: Nas & Jay was on DMX posthumous album ‘Exodus’ on a track called ‘Bath Salts’, it got nominated for the Grammy. It was a old song that they put on the album
December: Nas dropped a surprise album called ‘Magic’ and to me personally it’s feels like he takes some shots at Jay, nothing serious but friendly competition. Calls himself the GOAT
2022: His album King’s Disease 3 drops and on a track called ‘Thun’ he says: “No beef or rivals they’re playing ether on tidal, brothers can do anything when they decide to, in a Range Rover dissecting bars from Takeover, sometimes I text Hova like ni**a this ain’t over, laughing”
Hova/Hov Jay’s nickname and he is a part owner of the streaming service Tidal
Since they squashed their beef Nas & Jay has become close friends, doing music together, performing together, made business together, goes to each other birthday parties, goes to other parties etc
Man I just wanna say I appreciate the effort and energy you put into typing this up for me to understand what was going on!❤️🤝🏾flying colors for sure.
Thanx for the play-by-play of the Entire Nas Vs. Jay Beef. I knew some of this, but not the whole saga. Most interesting tidbit was Nas dating Mary J. Blige. 🤔🙄 And Beyonce's halitosis. 😂😂 Bless Up.
2:39 Still hilarious he sampled Pac to open the song
Right?! You won’t find a reaction to this that fully satisfies you, not from a first reaction, not like the first time you heard this after waiting for this response, so I don’t blame them but try to understand a little before posting because this with little background research could’ve make anyone think, ok she is young and she appreciates the music, nothing, just shut up, literally just close your mouth, being wise is basically controlling your silence, why speak about something you have no clue about and even worse, you upload it to UA-cam, with few research with this vid you’d easily be over 100k by now
Jay z got murdered SO hard that "Ethering" someone is an actual verb now 😂😂😂
Most accurate reaction. You caught the bars. 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼 nice from a youngin
There were too many darts being thrown in this song that you kind of need to know in order to know, you know? 😅 This song is so hard hitting I don’t see anyone being able to survive this except for Jay because of how big he was and the loyal fan base that he had around that time.
Not for nothing, I enjoyed rockin out witchu. Your energy and vibe was all the way UP!! We was laughing the same way when this first dropped. Imma check out some more shit from you 💯✊🏿
Sweetie Nas is the greatest rapper/Mc in hip hop history with Nas it’s always about the lyrics Nas inspired 2pac Biggie and Jayz
Another Response from Nas you should here is Last Real Nigga Alive he tells the story of why the beef between him and jayz started and how it ended lol.
The song is called Last Real Nigga Alive
U Right, that song is a real Edumekcation into all the Nas, Biggie, Jay-Z drama. From one of my Favorite Nas Album, "God's Son"
Yall ain’t appreciating the hook tho lol. Jay-Z motto for years was “I WILL NOT LOSE”
Half Man Half Amazing 🐐
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JJ Evans from Good Times... Jay Z looks like him 🤣 Him and Joe Camel. 🤣🤣🤣
Jay Z did directly dis him on a track called "Takeover", and this is Nas' response. In Takeover, Jay dissed Mobb Deep, Nas, and what people never caught in to, he also dissed Cash Money Records. Rocafella was a week known hood dude in NY that died of AIDS. Most people don't know that, so don't feel bad.
He talking about the real rich Rockefeller. From the original family of Rockefeller
Best diss track
I appreciate when the new generation show love to old classic Hip Hop.
great energy, new sub, Most High bless sisteren
New here. .But HAVE TO SAY IT... With all the truth coming out now about Diddy and Jay-Z, That Line he says, " Gay-Z and cock-a-fella records" , and "dick-suckin' lips" .. HITS Different. .LMFAO.. jay going down also.. NAS ALWAYS spoke the truth.. lol..
to this day Jay-Z is still jealous of Nas. Every time Nas getting ready to drop something Jay-Z gotta do something at the same time trying to take attention away from Nas. they did songs together after these disses but they still takes jabs at each other to this day.
Jayz got Ether'd
We need more NaS reactions please.
I GAVE YOU POWER
REWIND
UNDYING LOVE
NY STATE OF MIND
RARE
HEAVEN
MEMORY LANE
IT AIN'T HARD TO TELL
ONE LOVE
ONE MIC
I CAN
Street Dreams Remix with R Kelly,If You Ever Think Remix with R Kelly,Love Is All We Need with Mary J Blige
This was classic diss track. A lot of people sleep on this track. You gave a good reaction. Oh and you are so damn FINE!!!! Have a great day! Prace & love
Last real nigga alive by Nas is where Nas tells his side of where beef started.
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Two new NaS videos out
I LOVE THIS FEELING
SITTIN WITH MY THOUGHTS
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Goat 🐐 💥💥💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is not even the original Either. it was never released. they was saying Nas went harder and more disrespectful but he was told not to release it or it could ruin his career. the original Either beat was done by Swizz Beatz.
Which I think is “The General” beat, also by Nas. That beat goes hard as a mf too.
Top 2-3….damn, one of the best Diss tracks EVER!!! Keep going down that Nas rabbit hole. He’s the GOAT 🐐 💯
I think krs-1 had the best dis track he took on Mc Shan,and a whole crew juice crew. Who was hot at the moment.
There is so much in the track that happened and you'd definitely would have to understand what was going on that lead to this. The craziest diss track ever.
Blue Ivy gon be bumping to this at home while grounded
Nas killed Jay and his crew by himself. Nas is in his own league nobody touch nas the greatest to ever touch the mic Jay always wanted to be nas. Nas lyrically destroyed jay , he broke hes character but the biggest thing is that he psychologically destroyed him. Ether became a verb for destroying someone for a reason.
I actually played this song after I saw a reel abot it on Facebook and damn I’ve been playing the whole week…chesked reactions on it ,why the was the beef and palyed both distracks but Ether😂😂😂that’s all im gonna say
Just subscribed!! Salute to you!!! Fire reaction
You gotta do "Rewind" by Nas. It's on the Stillmatic album.
Fun fact: this is actually a watered down version that nas wrote. The original was so brutal that they told him not to release it.
👍 best diss. Check out Nas songs, especially Nas, live from the bridge.
And he dropped Ether on Jay Z's B-day
Happy Birthday Hov
That's why he's the 🐐🔥🐐🔥🐐🔥
Even the name Jay-Z came from Jazz O a rapper who used to be big that Jay-Z used to run after back in the day. "Damn you on Jazz Dick" was a diss cos back in the day it was important to rep yours and have your own style. Jay-Z kinda lit a fire under Nasir cos after the death of Biggie and Pac the fans were looking at Nas to step up but Nas sort of stepped back from the game a bit it was Jay repping for a minute which all culminated when he dissed Nas on the track "Takeover". Nasir wasn't even going to reply cos at that time his mum was in the hospital of which she died.
Remember when jayz took those boxing classes 😢
Jay Z traded his soul for riches that dude did not become a billionaire without some higher up people Tupac, Nas, DMX been speaking against this man.
Eminem has a bunch of diss tracks that you’d love 😂
Best rappers of all time, North Eminem, East coast Nas, South Andre 3000, West Coast Snoop Dogg
Biggie first G@y rapper who also fake bited everything from everyone ( notorious B1 big daddy thank me later ) and jayz continued with the biting tradition
Joyner Lucas - Gone in 4 minutes
E 40 ft Joyner Lucas - Stand on that
If this beef would have been in this era and Nas dropped this now.... Jay would have had to switch genres like MGK when Killshot dropped. Or maybe just stopped rapping. This the hardest, most personal, lyrical diss track ever. Nas is the truth and a legend not just for this but also because of his impact on the culture. Love seeing younger cats get put up on classic tracks and artists. Great reaction.
NAS " REWIND" ( NAS RAPS BACKWARDS ON THIS SIS)- i JUST GAVE YOU EXCLUSIVE 🔥 SIS.... PLAY THIS 🔥
Jay came back with a response called Supa- Ugly
Jay is not just biting. He's stealing. There is a compilation on youtube where they play old hip hop raps and tracks, and then Jay's "remakes" decades later (99 Problems and other famous tracks), and it's literally VERBATIM, line after line after line taking from older rappers. Whole phrases, whole verses, same flo.... for like 10 different songs. It's literally copy/paste. It's not paying homage, but literally stealing entire raps. That's how Jay came up. At least I can say this for his older music. Also, if there's this track record of 10 songs literally having copied phrases and melodies, that kind of shows you his mindset of how to approach rapping in general. He doesn't create out of thin air (he doesn't use his imagination, he isn't really "writing"), but rather takes existing work and repeats it. So even if most of his catalog sounds unique to him, it probably isn't. It's just that the things he "repeats" aren't recognizable to us; maybe older works from people we haven't heard of. But still, his style, his approach to rapping is "repeating other people's lines" A LOT.
He went on a break (around 2009 or 2010 I think) and didn't release any music for about a decade as you all know. Then recently (2022) we got him as a feature on DJ Khaled's - God Did; and there I can't really tell if he's copying lines from anyone or not. It sounds like his own work - story telling is quite specific to his life. But who knows. Maybe this isn't his either. Honestly, he's more of a business man than a rapper, and his business is running very well.
The Rocafella reference was to a street dude from Brooklyn who died from aids. Who, I think, named himself after Rockefeller.
It wasnt gun shots at the beginning it was a car backfiring
Ya 22 years late buts it cool he spitting bars. His ill matic.
You gotta react to 2Pac disses Bomb First (Jay Z plus more) Against All Odds (Nas plus more) and Hit Wm Up Bad Boy Diss, Ice Cube No Vaseline (NWA DIss Dr. Dre Easy E) Jadakiss and Styles P Sorry Ms. Jackson (50 Cent diss), The Game 100 Bars and Runnin (50 Cent Diss)
good vibes, just subbed
Damn this girl know more than most rappers.
when u pause ..go back a few seconds so catch every line ...
Nas ate jay 💯🔥🔥
She’s so pretty
This is the third greatest diss track ever. No Vaseline and Hit'em Up still above it.
"This was supposed to be a diss track to Jayz. I don't know how serious this is going to get."
Presses play: "Fuck Jay Z". lol
They sample Tupac voice for the intro when you heard "fuck Jay z"
Canibus - 2nd Round K.O. (LL COOL J diss)
Would be a good one for you to react to
way better than Takeover. Funny watching your reactions
You are a very good looking young lady. Shout out to Nas!
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Gotta do No Vaseline by Ice Cube
Bro destroyed the whole damn crew....Nas & the lox canceled the roc
Yo you should check out shether by remy ma she uses the same beat shits fire
React to Cam'ron - Swagger Jacker (Jay-z Diss)
Dope reaction to the bars 🔥 but I must say, you’re very beautiful ❤️
50 Cent -Back Down
It came out in Dec of 01
Esco is the 🐐
2pac diss is the realists dis in the world
Hey react to The Game ft 50 cent - hate it or love it (if you haven’t heard it before)
Or if you want a diss track, listen to; the Game - pest control (meek mill diss)
NaS ft Mary J Blige "Reach out"
Please react to “92 bars” by The Game. It’s a Meek Mills diss.
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Whoever married this woman call her husband.
You really gotta know your history to get half the bars. If you know who Jazz O is then you're good
Eminem murdered you on your own sh!t😂
Kendrick = Nas
Drake = Gay Z
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You missed alot also too in that but the stuff you caught 🔥
Big L - Devils son...its insane you should react 👍🏻
Nas Escobar
Now do Remy Ma Shether
After you pause, try to rewind a little because you missing some crucial lines. Dope reaction though.
My first time hearing this diss, shit is fire. 🔥. Jay is definitely overrated Fr.
FYI, everytime you pause then play you are missing the flow of the song. You should rewind a couple of seconds to get it back on pace 👊🏿
React to eminem ”Bully”