Not happening

Still hustling baby, hurry up, kill me
I'm already the GOAT, next stop is the billi

Ended up signing Nas and still dropping classics whereas Em's last decent album was almost 20 years ago

No s***

Hov outlasted them all, YOUNG

HOV

Crazy Hov the goat and have the goat smileys

Imagine still disputing Hov being the GOAT in 2020

Cause when you’re the goat nothing can bring you down

In hindsight, Takeover was the better and more hurtful diss. And just called Hov a f*g a bunch of times and made fun of him for doing tai bo

Jay literally owned that nigga tho

It was the equivalent of Eazy getting paid off Dre Day.

That beat

The crazier part of it is that all 3 of the “big 3” early 2000s rap terms like that came from Ether.

Ethered- self explanatory
Renegaded- Nas popularized the narrative of Em murdering Jay on Renegade
Stan- Of course it started with the character from the Em song but Nas saying “you a fan, a phony, a fake, a p****, a stan” was the first time someone used it as slang like that, in this case as an insult

Nas the god for that lowkey

Nah ....Pusha not relevant enough for that. Em and Nas were Legends even without Jay association....

Yeah, The 3 kings of the time, Jay Nas and Em, all crossover within the words Ether, Renegade, and Stan, all having something to do with each. Pretty beautiful actually

It’s mostly just about Em’s hunger and faster flow on it, when he comes in it’s kind of like a shot to the arm so I can see it, I thought he was the better one but when I read into jay’s lyrics I think they’re probably equal.

i see people say this all the time now but i disagree

i feel like jay's point about illmatic being the only great nas album is wrong

like it was written doesn't exist

also considering i am... nastradamus would have been another classic without the leaks

nas brought up some relevant points that people don't often mention for some reason

for example jay being a super fan of nas

jay mentioned nas multiple times before this beef and sampled him on his album

his "you made it a hot line i made it a hot song" bar was a nice rebuttal but the point still stands in my eyes

as much as jay is jay, he knows exactly who nas is

the man coined the phrase stan

that's hard

that's an automatic body imo

jay should have dedicated all of the verses to nas imo

i get that he was positioning himself as the king of new york and i respect that

but nas isn't the one to take lightly

and i think the result of the leaks during the i am... nastradamus convinced him that it was the appropriate time to strike

i admire the move

but i'd be willing to bet jay would have done things a lil differently in hindsight

plus last real nigga alive is the best song to come from the beef anyways

that's just my take though

jay is my GOAT for the record though

Dam

Does jay even acknowledge him

50 really been getting washed his whole career

hate to break it to ya but no Nas wasn't the first person using it as slang. it was being thrown around at male groupies damn near the day stan dropped lol. First person on record maybe but it wasn't that crazy.