The Jones’ can’t keep up..
Maybe my nicca Nas…
But I got stronger after Ether…

That should’ve been included on this list. I guess it was overlooked becuz it was on an album nobody but females ever listened to.

I can rock with that.

Jay-Z- Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)

gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y’all lamed out
Didn’t really appreciate it, til the second one came out
So I stretched the game out, X’ed your name out
Put Jigga on top, and drop albums non-stop for ya, nigguh!

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Hes talking about about sampling him on Dead Presidents & then on “IN My Lifetime”, rap game/crack game.

Nas- DJ Whoo Kid Freestyle (Over Dr.dre Light Speed)

Platinum pearl crown me, who the king can’t be you
I’m stamp on you lamp with the crew
Bent on you, Esco mates wipe the length right off you
Pimp you lost it, talk money spit fortunes
Talk murder I lay your dogs in the coffin (dogs in the coffin)

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Jay-Z talking about being the king & Nas felt otherwise.

Jay-Z- The Watcher Pt. 2

I blew breath for you midgets, I gave life to the game
It’s only right I got the right to be king

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Jay-Z is refering too Nas’s line on Hate me Know
Nas said
“I was destined to come
predicted blame God
He blew breath in my lungs
second to none”

Jay-Z also spit this verse as a freestyle over Roc the Mic beat.

Jay-Z- Hot 97′ Freestyle (Before Blueprint 2)

Verse 2
I stayed in touch I heard you back home complaining yall complain too much so hateful bunch of dudes I put on out there acting so ungrateful

Verse 3
whie yall was running your mouth complaining about summer jam
I was in flip flop in the south of France see how it flip flops for the number 1 station for hip hop & R&B you thought summer jam was staring you it was staring me even in my absence my presence is felt that got to tell you im the king if nothing else im on another continent you still aint content im in the Mediterranean you still aint bent explain to me why I wanna be you again you on the radio crying im learning to swim

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Nas was complaining about Hot 97′ on Power 105 that they didn’t want him insulting Jay-Z at Summer Jam.

Jay-Z- Public Service Announcment Remix

thats why real niggas respect me fake niggas want beef
cause they know thats the only way we gonna speak
we never gonna see eye to eye
your type of real I dont recognize its all televised
mobstas I ta not get in beef its no business in it it only brings police
wankstas want beef and they name in the street
most time end up with there brain where there feet should go
you should know if you gonna do something and you go to radio we all know you fronting so I go to radio to let them know you fronting keep it real you don’t want nothing
they shooting nobody dying somebody better put somebody body on somebody iron sometime soon if somebody lying I aint buying that shit you shoveling
I aint ducking for nothing cousin im too tall to act small
plus you know ive seen it all before

Jay-Z also spit this verse on the Rap City Freestyle over Ludacris’s Stand Up.

You could also say Nas’s verse on the pledge was a jab to Jay-Z
The Pledge Remix
My enemies want sorta the same respect I was born with
Godson, tatted on my chest it’s permanent
The rap Albert Anastasia; you cowards
Y’all want the crown from the black power man of Asia
Snap out your dreams and prayers of takin a king’s paper
Ask another rapper how it feels to lose his whole gangsta
(How it feel?) Youse a no namesta – ya little mans is no threat
You make me upset I might stank ya (blastin)

@AnMor…good shit but the only thing we want to know is when will it be done and how can I get some.

“Super Ugly” is vulgar because he brought that man’s child in it (in a way) with baby seat line. That left the bad taste in my mouth (funny and clever as it is). Again, can’t overlook the fact that Jay apologized for that song….probably for those lines. He knew he crossed the line. Nas won that small battle because he took Jay out his zone like no other person has done before. Everybody else at that point were being swatted out the air (Mase, Meano (sp), Fat Joe, etc).

“Takeover” was the trap that finally lured Nas into the battle. But, I’m still baffled why? Why were they even going at each other? Only thing I can think of is ego. Wanting that crown.

The only reason I believe people think Nas won is two fold. 1. Simply Nas came out with “Ether” then Jay came with “Super Ugly.” For some unknown reason people were comparing those two songs when it should have be “Ether” vs “Takeover.” 2. “Takeover” was too technically sound. It was so rooted in truth’s on what the streets were saying that. It was like being cut with a razor. Really don’t know your cut until someone tells you. It was sharp, but clean. “Ether” was like cutting something with a dull, but jagged knife; its messy, but still gets the job done. Jay fought pretty and highly efficient, but Nas fought wild and dirty. Both effective methods, but the dirty fight caught more attention and appeared to do more damage.

I’m going to grab my “The 48 Laws of Power” tonight and revise those chapters and come back and comment on that.

I chuckle at people who say Jay doesn’t have lyrics. Don’t listen to the music. Nas paints beautiful portraits that is almost movie like. Jay’s ish is more abstract.

excuse typos.hahah