AHH: One thing that just came up today, Nas apparently has a response to Jay Z’s “The Takeover” on his upcoming album, which implicates you and Pun and includes the lyrics: “Call yourself gangsta but you were begging for pardon that night in Carbon when Terror Squad flipped on your squadron tried to front on their checks till Pun put a gun to your chest.”
Fat Joe: We gotta hear it but damn, what a way to put me right in the middle of the beef huh? We don’t comment on that, that’s old news. Like I said all the negative energy all that sht you can throw that out the window.
Nas is crazy. No question that we are allies with Nas Escobar. We love Nas. I almost named my son after Nas. As far as him and Jay Z with the beef: that’s they stuff. Until somebody tries to involve me in that sht, that’s it. I ain’t got no problem with the whole Rocafella. It’s well documented. Everybody keeps trying to get me to talk about that sh*t in every interview. Why don’t they ask Jay Z that stuff? I read his interveiws, nobody asks him. If you interview him, ask him.
Verse 1:
So you call yourself god mc… J-hova\
drunk the glass of blasphemy & forgot to pray over\
your games over\ crossed the warpath of a brave soldier\
youre a makeover\ my protege trying to takeover\
I was the sheperd that led you\ But you bit the hand that fed you\
mad cause since I met you i never did respect you\ and as hard as it seems\ you know that I fathered your dreams\
you was a groupie always begging to be part of my team\
another case of a boy and his teacher\
I was the first to poison your speakers\
so kill all that noise that your preaching\
I understand\ all your plans to underhand\
aired threats of you pullin my card next summerjam\
let me make this clear hova\ You had my left overs\
she told me your little problem of the day when you slept over\
but thats another subject homey\ ***** you phony\
Im coming to collect the debt from the years that you owe me\
so what you capitlized... only cause i allowed\
Im taking aim at your dome\ and reclaiming my throne\
“Who said I that i aint still nasty”
Verse 2:
How you planned on facing\ the half man half-amazing\
Dont need a fam, Nas is a one man invasion\
claim you hot but you flopped with your roc-familia\ cause real recognize real and youre not familiar\
call yourself gansta but you were begging for pardon\
that night in carbon\ when terror squad flipped on your squadron\
Tried to front on their checks\ till pun put a gun to your chest\
YOu said it yourself dog, Nas is one of the best\
Dont need to search for some dirt to expose you\
I leave it up to the flow dispose you\ when i oppose you\
This is it Im calling ya\ come out and play like “warriors”\
studied my blueprint then pieced together your formula\
Guess the knowledge I speak too deep to follow\
that`s why your stomach to weak to swallow\ The real truth
that Nas is\ the greates of all timers\
f*ck skeletons, keep only weaponry in my closets
He was forced by Colombia 3 times to edit the songs because many of these lines were considered too harsh.
The one we have heard is actually the “dumbed down” version and that is why the ether we all know has Nas basically overdoing it with all the “gay” and “Cock a fella” jokes…..because he had to make up for the lines he had to take out, and they took everything good that he already had.
Once again past on the word
And no this isn’t an April Fools joke, the info is online.
Blocka
March 16th, 2012
Yo Nas. Go over your lyrics for “Undying Love” that was on the “I Am…” album.
Mr.Alfred
March 17th, 2012
Nas you are the best. I swear i learn more from Nas than i do from my professor in university. Keep it up Nas
Wow @ Jayledgend2011. Thanks for posting those lyrics. I had heard about the original version of Ether, and wanted to hear it and see how nasty it was. Oh man, I can’t believe Columbia did not allow that to be released. Nas definitely crushed Jay. that was truth.
Okeowo Aderemi
April 22nd, 2012
“Greatest Rapper of All time” still jamming illmatic till now, nigga be tripping telling me “dude, it so so old, try Drake or Souljah”, illmatic is timeless,
Nas, I have major respect for you! You are THE rap god my nigga!
Jay
May 22nd, 2012
Greatest of all time since I first heard you in 94' and Im from Alabama. Was hard to put people on to you back then. Some lines people still dont understand till this day, I had to explain things back then and they finally was like dang this dude is too ill. “Drink Moet with Medusa give her shotguns in hell(lol too deep for most), from the spliff that I lift and inhale”.
Jay
May 29th, 2012
@973boss, What do you want to know about “Destroy and Rebuild”? Its pretty self explanatory. I understand the entire song. Title is a reference to KRS-1’s “The Bridge Is Over”. The song is a reference to the haters at that time that Nas had who were cool with him at one time, like Prodigy and Cormega, I think their all cool now but at that time Nas felt they were doing shady things. So he’s just echoing the sentiment that some probably thought Queensbridge was a wrap and he’s saying nah, its time to destroy and rebuild. LOL I remember when Nas was on 26th and Park at that time and a young teen in the crowd who didnt know what the song meant, they gave her the mic and she was congrating Nas on the album and finished by saying “Nas the bridge is definitely over”. LOL, she had no idea she was saying something negative, but the song says, “Haters say, the bridge is over”. Nas was his cool, calm self and was like, “RIIIIGHT”. He knew she didnt know what she was saying.
NaS is the reason i take an interest in hip hop. I don’t see NaS as a singer or as a rapper, I see him as a writer.
Yo NaS you’re the man you got all my respect (yea you got fans even here in france)
damn does Preemo know this because for the longest he was riding “Takeover” to the grave because “Ether” seemed to “childish” to him? and I wonder how much Jaz-O helped write some of these songs? Now if he could explain “Destroy and Rebuild”
One Love
June 9th, 2012
“They thought I’d make another Illmatic
But it’s always forward I’m movin
Never backwards stupid here’s another classic”
