The Mobb doesn’t make music for money and say they hustle to help sell records: it’s a life choice, purely hedonistic

Niggas in the point ain’t changed

Provoking this kind of crowd reaction would be quite exhilirating

Nas may have had an internationally successful career, but P believes one’s path to be circular — really it comes back down to where you are from, and in this case, happened on the street. Nas is an impostor (he thinks/thought)

Some of Nas' albums have enough sales to warrant going ‘platinum’, which in the United States is 1,000,000 copies. However, if you were to go platinum in Uruguay, should you be so inclined, you would only need to sell 4,000 copies. Even post-96 Mobb Deep could do that

In Nas' own words, he’s the first rapper to bring a platinum plaque back to the projects. So yes, he can prove it, first-hand if you want

Not a penis diss

Back in the day, the Mobb and Nas would bark together — and it sounded fucking good

Guns feature on Nas' tape, not physically (DAT = Digital Audio Tape), but are hanging to the left — not to be used

Again, like Jigga in The Takeover, P acknowledges that Illmatic was a hot album, but feels it is entirely undermined by the fabrication of events and details it is composed of

At Summer Jam 2001, shortly after this song was recorded, Jay-Z, who had separate beef with Prodigy, released this picture

The QB self-proclaimed gangster dressed as a ballerina… Kind of takes some of the bite away from his lyrics

Prodigy has a wonderful tendency to start his verses with banging lines

“I got you stuck off the realness”

“There’s a war going on outside no man is safe from”

“The saga begins, begin war, I draw first blood be the first to set it off”

“I break bread, ribs, hundred dollar bills”

This is no exception. Similarly to Jay-Z, he calls out Nas for inventing his status as a criminal in Illmatic, and more prominently, It Was Written. Nas' beef and drug sales was only on paper, and never manifested on the streets