This line makes no sense what was Hov thinking when he wrote this.. Nas is constantly in discussions of top 5 all time and the line made even less sense in 2001. Rest of Takeover is great though👍

Jay Z did all of that just to get smoked on Stillmatic.

I love Jay, but damn, that line has aged terribly.

Jay Z always lies, what else is new

2001 was when it did make sense though. Nas hadn't the dropped an album since nastradamus in 2001 then he comes with oochie wallie and the disappointing QB finest album. His stock was the lowest it had ever been. But yeah the line aged badly as soon as ether dropped

Jay tried to kick Nas when he was down and that s*** backfired and almost ended his career. The audio equivalent of picking a fight with a pencil neck geek who is seemingly weaker than you and getting your ass beat senseless by him in front of all of your peers.

Pretty much

Takeover was the Duppy of its time only ever mentioned as the precursor to an Iconic diss.

"But guys it's the better song" but HOV already had great songs he needed a great diss

Jay coined getting ethered and renegaded...and still had a career afterwards

almost ended his career is a bit extreme tho

classic line

jay had just dropped his best album in years

only fools and sheep thought jays career was over

Fax, Takeover was full of lies.

Doesn't apply to me lmao

I've been showing Nas love way before this album

That dude had the nerve to diss Nas while his mom was dying. And then he ducked the fade when Nas wanted to knock his ass out irl, on top of killing him on wax smh. P**** ass camel.

Nas coined the terms..

Term* and yea coined was the wrong word succ me

He coined "stan" and "renegade"

Nobody was actually using stan like that before Ether

Stan was the dude in Em's song but Nas was the first to say "you a stan".

Fire lines but most the s*** he said was wrong and/or hypocritical lol

Drake tried to do the same s*** on Duppy when he said Push not top 7 on GOOD lol

Didnt drake stan pusha like jay stanned nas too
:myavy:

Rap beefs usually consist of lies / exaggerations to berate your opponent

😂 he did

But now he claims "it was just the Neptunes beats".. even tho he never praised Kelis, JT, NERD, Snoop, etc like Tyler did