Roger Sterling
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- May 10, 2015
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Almost a score back, the rap game witnessed probably the biggest rap beef in its history, Nas vs Jay-z. Many believe that Jay-Z lost that battle, I do so myself. Many believe it’s ether that ended that battle, to some point yeah. Also, many dub ether to be one of the greatest diss song ever, I think that's ridiculous. Personally, I think and believe ether was over-hyped and overlooked, and Nas really played himself on that one.
Now before we get any further, lemme advice y’all kids that I’m going to hurt your feelings; please spare me and attack the points I’m going to raise, with points. I had my doubts about doing this, cos I know the culture ain't ready, but what the heck...
I have no respect for Nas, cos through ether he proved to be….
A confused fella.
In the song, there are bars that Nas goes... 'My child, I've watched you grow up to be famous /
And now I smile like a proud dad, watching his only son that made it /.
Having said that alone, takes away all the credibility of this song. With those lines, Nas credits himself for birthing Jay-Z, watched(guided) every step to his success, and he’s so proud of Jay-Z’s achievement. Still in the same song, Nas goes ‘https://jamii.app/JFUserGuide Jay-Z’, accused him of things like ‘You traded your soul for riches’, went on to throw ‘You a fan, a phony, a fake, a pussy, a Stan’.
Seems Nas couldn't make up his mind. Was he proud of Jay-Z, or disgusted/disappointed in him?? It can’t be both. It just doesn't make sense.
A hypocrite
Nas called out Jay-Z for abusing women (verbally)....'You seem to be only concerned with dissing women'
Yet Nas also abuses women in the same song through lines like....'Y'all niggas deal with emotions like bitches', 'I rock hoes, y'all rock fellas'. Nas went even far to abuse a woman (Foxy Brown) by calling her out by name, and telling her private business.. 'Foxy got you hot 'cause you kept your face in her puss.'
What right did Nas have to defend women, while he throws one under the bus, even worse off some rumors??
Gay
Throughout the song, Nas was throwing homophobic jokes and insults towards Jay-Z. He called him Gay-Z, accused him of 'rocking fellas 'steada hoes', but it gets more interesting when Nas went to details and called Jay ‘a dcik riding faggot’ with ‘dcik-sucking lips’.
The last 2 jabs aren’t just insults, but sexual insults which one pays attention to details before making them. Nas painted disturbing sexual images about his foe, which he couldn’t provide proof of. What kind of a straight man, looks at another man’s lips and go….’those are dcik sucking lips’, if he’s not gay?? What straight man think of another man riding a freakin’ joystick, if they’re not gay themselves??
A snitch.
This one is a straight forward case, no questions. Nas said.... ‘And your man stabbed Un, and made you take the blame/’. Allegedly, Un Rivera was stabbed by one of Jay-Z’s soldiers for leaking Jay's music, some accounts do say that it was actually Jay that stabbed the man, it don’t matter who did it. Jay-Z was eventually charged for the incident and pled guilty, and got 3 years of probation plus some lighter sh!t.
One of the sacred rules in hip-hop, and the wise guys world, is DO NOT SNITCH. Even if its true that Jay-Z only took the fall, he could argue that he did so for the team and to stay true to the culture, there's absolutely no shame in that; besides, the man was stabbed for Jay-Z in the first place.
How did Nas get away with stitches?..beats me.
A sucka.
Nas called out Jay for saying he was the better emcee than Biggie (which I’m 120% down with)...‘First, Biggie's ya man, then you got the nerve to say that you better than Big?’
Rap/Hip-hop is a competition sport, built on that, built for that. Every rapper should step to the mic with the mentality that they’re the best in the game, no matter who it is they’re up against or with. One claiming to be the best, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re disrespecting the other(s). Kendrick Lamar did so with his verse in control, J Cole did so in Fire Squad. Even Nas of all, should know better cos Tupac called him out for competition when he said ‘No offense to Nas, but the whole fcukin world is mine’. It's simply the nature of the game.
Biggie himself, was competing with Jay-Z, and learned some aspects of his game from Jay. For y’all that didn’t know, Biggie learned how to not to write down lyrics, but go about ‘em in your head from Jay-Z the first time he got in the studio with him. Dj Clark Kent who introduced both men testified that.
So Nas’ shot was simply a sucka move to draw Biggie’s fans to his side. He also did the same with Tupac’s in the same song when he said....‘who's the best? Pac, Nas and Big? Ain't no best’. Al though from another perspective, you could argue that Nas was being smart for recruiting Tupac and Biggie fans, but we know better than that now.
A Bashite fellow.
Nas proved to be a blond on topics like AIDS awareness, Martial Arts, and several few others we won't finish if we get to.
Nas took a shot at Jay-Z and his business partners for paying homage to their role model, who had died of AIDS (allegedly).....‘Rock-a-fella died of AIDS, that was the end of his chapter /
and that's the guy y'all chose to name your company after? /’.
Dying of AIDS doesn't make one a subject of mockery, or means they should be forgotten like they never had anything else going on in their life but AIDS. Mind you that Ether came out in 2001, when almost the whole world was already fully aware of AIDS, let alone the US.
Nas also, seemed to not know that Martial Arts got no age limit, long as one is physically and mentally fit. Martial arts serve for fitness, protection, meditation, education, and everything positive about life. But Nas laughed at Jay-Z with ‘I still whip your ass, you thirty-six in a karate class? You Tae-bo hoe tryna' work it out, you tryna' get brolic? /’. Later, Jay-Z challenged him to a fight, but he chickened out.
It's a million things I could question off that song, but that's more than enough for now I believe. Absorb or front, there you have it.
Deuces!!
