According to Power 105.1 radio host Angie Martinez, Nas appeared a little reluctant when a fan requested that she play his “Ether” record during a recent radio show. When asked about his reluctance towards hearing the song, Nas revealed that the song is “old” and “another chapter” in his life.
Released in 2001, “Ether” was a diss record aimed at Jay Z during his feud with Nas and also served as a response to Jay’s “Takeover,” which took aim at Nas and Mobb Deep. While speaking with Angie Martinez this week, Nas shared that his relationship with the Brooklyn, New York rapper is “too good” for him to revisit “Ether” or “Takeover.”
“It’s just old…I mean, I don’t feel anything from it,” Nas said. “I just—It’s old. It’s so old. It’s another chapter. It’s old. Classic for sure. History even. I haven’t heard that thing in [awhile]. I don’t listen to that. That or the other thing…He knows that. I told him ‘I can’t listen to this.’ I mean, it’s great. It’s great times, but that was then…But that’s my dog. So, that was a different time. That’s my dog. It’s too good right now. Everything is right…History is history. Can’t change history. It is what it is, but it’s love.”
Nas later spoke on his Time Is Illmatic film, which is scheduled to appear in select theaters today (October 2). He also commented on his appreciation for documentaries in general and expressed his excitement at the upcoming N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton.
“It’s going to cable after the theaters,” he said. “People were excited last night. You never know what someone’s gonna think if they watching something about you. But it’s cool because I would like to see documentaries. I’m excited about the N.W.A movie. That’s a whole movie. That’s not a documentary…I love seeing behind the scenes on people and stuff.”
In regards to music from the Queensbridge emcee, Nas says fans can expect new music “real soon,” possibly by next week.
Following the end of his feud with Jay Z, Nas has gone on to voice his praise for the rapper. During an interview with Peter Rosenberg in 2012, Nas expressed his respect for Jay.
“Hip Hop has to thank God for Jay-Z,” Nas said. “The fact that that he’s doing what he’s doing is an awakening call for all of the Gods and Earths to wake up and understand that this generation is bigger than what we can even fathom. He is one of the only ones out of the whole community that we grew up in, from the Run DMC days, who’s taken this shit seriously, taken this shit very seriously musically and businesses wise. That’s powerful. So you’ve gotta respect him.”
NASTY NAS
Nas Lost
you are lost. idiot.
How did he lose? 20 years in the rap game and still relevant. How can it be in rap music and history of rap that he is lost. Compare any other artist besides LL Cool and Jay Z or possible Busta that are still relevant and can actually rap.
Who can beat Nas, In story telling, poems, bio, rapping, lyrics and lyricist and word play. “don’t say my car is topless just say the titties are out” How did he lose? He blessed us with the greatest hip hop album of all time and the greatest diss record ever against the almighty Titanic, Jay and the whole Roca Fella crew, single handily! How did he lose? Follow him and learn about him before you judge him. You an idiot! We are talking about rap lyrics here and MCing! No other rap lyrics come close to Nas! Remember we talking about rapping and not who has the most money and material wealth. We are talking about the microphone and word play for the at streets.
^^ C’mon fam, you typing all that shit to defend someone who never gave a fuck about you??? That’s not a good look, bruh
^ You’re typing that shit to attack someone who doesnt know you fuckin’ exist! Same shit!
ANONYMOUS:
Go put your head in your moms honey hole and get off Nas sacs!!! Nas = GOAT and f what you heard otherwise!!!!
why doesn’t Nas reveal what books he’s reading? maybe because he’s fucking illiterate? asshole.
i wonder if he’s read New York Times best seller Nas Lost: A Tribut To The Little Homey
NaS Lost is the Nas book only Byron Crawford could write, and not just due to literacy issues in the hip-hop community. Billed as a tribute to the little homey, it is in fact a tribute, but not in the way that an article in XXL magazine is a tribute to a rapper. NaS Lost considers the artist’s career in its totality, from its amazing highs to its crushing lows — and some of everything in between.
Discussed in NaS Lost:
The 2001 beef with Jay-Z. What really led to this dispute?
Nas and Jay-Z as Eskimo brothers. How the two of them became related in a sense.
Nas’ albums. Is it true what Jay-Z said, that Nas has a one hot album every 10 year average?
Illmatic’s five mic review in The Source. Was it really the best album of its era?
The dreaded n-word. If KKKramer can say it, why can’t Nas?
Ghostwriting allegations. Can anything dream hampton says on Twitter be believed?
The Virginia Tech controversy. What is the real cause of most school shootings?
The hostage situation in Africa. Who was to blame there, Nas, the promoters, or the continent of Africa?
Nas’ marriage to Kelis. Bad idea, or worst idea of all time?
Nas as a parent. Why is his teenage daughter posting her birth control on Instagram?
Cultural tourism. Why is it that SPIN magazine likes a Chief Keef album more than Life Is Good?
copped that shit,great book
Those questions are the stupidest I’ve ever heard
1 hot album every 10 years? It’s been 20 since Illmatic and Nas has made:
Illmatic (arguably best rap album of all time)
StillMatic(5 mic Classic)
It Was Written(Also classic, underrated cause it followed Illmatic)
Life Is Good(Modern Classic)
God’s Son (Fantastic album)
Street’s Disciple (underrated album, albeit a bit bloated)
most of the rest of the questions were pretty stupid. He discussed the N-word thoroughly while being intereviewed around the Untitles album. Marriage to Kelis really? Listen to Life is Good’s “Bye Baby” Virginia Tech?? What year is this? There have been like 20 worse shootings since, including one in NY. Chief Keef? Again, what year is this?
^ Exactly. A bunch of bastards believing a journalist’s book.
illmatic is super overated. blueprint and stillmatic are better. the
THATCHU BOL ROFLMAO
STILL TRYNA FLIP THAT BOOK 4 SOME MILWAUKEES BEST
he’s fucking illiterate? worst troll of all time.
just to address thz idiot,that dude reads ,wikipid his shit u damn clown… u just dying to read his shit coz he kicks knowledge,dude story tells,he even produces some of his tracks. ,he co wrote belly u clown,,Nas king forever ,adddressing shit like a grown asss man,,,real ass talk battle me ,,,go do the shmurda dance with granny b4 i let loose on u,,,read b4 u talk crap,u the illiterate one now
Anonymous: dude stop copying and pasting shit. You must can’t write your own shit. Sounds like you are the only hater on Nas. You must be a white dude that loves Eminem. Em is garbage and so are you! Nas is the truest, name a rapper that he has not influenced!!! Nas, GOAT and f what you heard.
whats up stanley?
Why didnt she ask if he’s releasing an album with AZ?
Because sadly in today’s hip-hop climate, AZ isn’t interesting enough SMH
nas iz a real ny nigga
Much respect for Nas or use to. But maybe just maybe Nas has turned into a Jay-z dickrider like the majority has. Or maybe them 2 are part of the same ……………. yeah you fill in the blank.
Maybe they just grew up? Ever thought of that?
maybe i just grew into your girlfriends pussy
^virgin harry
Roc Nation
Jay Electronica – My World (Nas tribute)
J. Cole – Let Nas Down
jay z probly somewhere bumping take over right now
jay z is somewhere trying to figure out how he incorporate more of BIG’s, Ma$e, Snoop, Nas and other mc’s lyrics into his rhymes
Jay-z is out there rulling the business world,Nas still trying to eat from his one hit wonder and cosigning the likes of Iggy,to please her white fanbase.
Nas lost
Anonymous: who cares about what Jay is doing? If Jay jumps in a well should Nas jump too? You don’t make any since homie. We are happy for Jay? Remember we are talking about rapping on the microphone! That is it! Jay is no comparison to Nas’s rap lyrics. Yes, richer but who gives a f. Both are eating good. Nas is the People’s Champion like the other guys mention earlier. Nas is that dude!
its because of droog
eat a bag of foreskin
Only HHDX & Youtube c-boys care anymore about Ether & Takeover.
you know how i know youre gay?…. you use the term “c-boys”
“Nas “excited” about upcoming N.W.A. biopic, “Straight Outta Compton.”
Well..He don’t look too excited in dat picture…LMAO
he just looks abit high with a straight face
I neva knew that he was supposed to be cheesing when he said he was excited.
1)INTRO
2)GEORGE FOREMAN SPEAKS
3)FOREMAN GRILL FT JADAKISS
4)LOVELY DAY FT ANTHONY HAMILTON
5)SUNNY D
6)STICKIN’ UP WHITE BOYS FT RAEKWON
7)SUMMERTIME COOKOUT FT THE NOTORIOUS BIG, JAY Z, AND 2PAC
8)LIVE AT THE BBQ CYPHER FT BOLDY JAMES, FASHAWN, BISHOP NEPHRU, AND YOUR OLD DROOG
9)HEINEKIN BREW
10)FANTASTIC VOYAGE
11)IT’S A QUEENS THING
12)DRIVE BYES, MAMAS CRY
13)ICE CREAM MAN
14)U SO TOUGH
15)CHILLIN ON DA STOOPS FT SWIZZ BEATZ
16)OUTRO
*YAWNS*
Its actually dope how close nas and jay are now. same w/ nas and 50. its good to see that.
I agree bruh! It is good to see. Dudes are grown and way past bullshit that can literally get you killed. Dudes have families and children!!!
Nas is the greatest rapper ever!
YASSS!
His album will flop,he doesnt have enough white fans and real black hip hop heads always cop dat bootleg from torrent sites.
Never has flopped and never will. He has real fans.
That is why we love Nas! He does not water down his lyrics to the Pop masses for a bit record. Keep his shit to the streets. I’ll roll up in my whip with his new album and his old shit anytime rather than the filth and garbage out now. Nas shit is always dope! We be blazing and hazing with nas shit home boy! That street shit!!!
Embarrassed to listen to your own music = afraid of who you are
“Only so long fake thugs can pretend”
Jay-Z was right in the end
On the other side, Jay-Z said that he regrets making “Big Pimpin” so I guess he’s afraid of who he is, too.
Would u be excited to hear a diss record that u made dissin ur friend a few years ago,wen ur both now good friends?ur a fukboi then
The truth is that this has nothing to do with hip hop. The are fellow Freemasons and have had an alliance from the beginning. The “beef” they had was to sell records and not an actual conflict. Please tell me am not the only one who is cognizant of this. I swear people are so dumb these days that they cant even see what is right in front of them. Jay-z and Rick Ross made a song called Freemason they denied being one. That fat b***** has lied so many times how could anyone believe him.
this nigga wack and soon to flop and fail hard.. old as nigga need a reality show.
How is he washed up? 20 years and still running!!! Nas is the Greatest ever homie!!! What or who is your favorite rapper? Does he even have an album? Come on bruh! Feed us, we want to know!
^^cosign
why post on his page.u wack for that…Nas is the best Emcee ,a pioneer of Rap.He is about knowledge and history,he tells stories of the hoood so nice.we the poor relate more to his sound.Man of peace,he is just humble ,talking with a positive voice.go find angry music or something ,u must be sad
He doesn’t listen to it because he knows he lost
How did he lose and people this very day still talking about Ether bruh? Nobody is calling up and want to listen to Takeover. Bruh over the last 10 to 12 years people are still talking and listening to ether… You have young R&B and young people and rappers saying they are going to Ether something or someone. Come on Bruh, Nas won that shit hands down. Nobody says they want to listen to Takeover or say the word takeover. Stop living under the Rock bruh! It is okay Jay lost that battle but he won the war. If you call what he has now is the war. Quite frankly, When it comes to lyrics pound for pound nobody is f with Nas period!!!!
You don’t know shit about hip hop
Many people talk about takeover. Nas had the upper hand with ether. Nas was doing a reply so he could combat what was said and do more shots. For a first shot diss track Jay-Z went off. Only true hip hop fans can say that, not the nas stans and Jay-Z haters that make up parts of hip hop now. And listen to blueprint 2 by Jay-Z. That track alone showed more facts then ether and takeover. The streets say nas won because hot 97 played supa ugly and ether and not takeover and ether. That’s why you don’t hear the term. But if Jay-Z thought about it a little more he could’ve easily won by putting the content in supa ugly into blueprint2 so it’s all in one. That wouldve been one of the best diss tracks to ever hit the genre. And takeover already is one of the best to hit the genre for what he did to prodigy. Takeover only had one or two verses at nas while the main target was prodigy. Another upper hand for nas. I am a die hard Jay-Z and NaS fan but I think people need to stop hating on Jay for the battle. He did better then what lots of people thought. Nas really had ether and got yourself a gun Jay-Z had takeover. Supa ugly and the blueprint 2. Which is the most underrated track put of the whole thing. I could explain how if you like . But nas won that beef. barley.
🔥
“I love seeing behind the scenes on people and stuff”
That’s a female trait.
Stop saying everything bad is a “female trait”
But everything bad IS a female trait.
Y’all niggas are gay!
You ride Jay’s lips so hard!!!
GOAT = NaS
You can tell the “real” hip hop heads by the comments they write.And u can tell the pop fans that listen to hip hop casually now and again.
Nas is the greatest of all time! Period…the realest last rapper alive! For the below posts that criticizes Nas, go eat under your fat wet toots! I love how Nas responded to Angie, the dude is grown now. Nas and Jay grew up, okay! Dudes are over 40 years old, who wants to rehash old shit. The same old shit that got two of the greatest killed (Biggie and PAC). And… That is why hip hop sucks right now! No lyricism anymore just a bunch of shake your butt music and rappers. We have more fruity men now that it has ever been. Dancing and shake your butt crap music dudes are weak….Nas is that dude that cares! Nobody is messing with Nasir! Just google the dude!
your definition of real is way off
he rappin about ghetto fantasies,he never was about that life
also you might wanna check bet.com for his new interview,that nigga co-signed Iggy,calling her hip hop and shit,dont talk shit about shake your butt music and rappers,because according to him its hip hop at its finest.Nas stans are really the sth else,lmfao
Anonymous: you are lame! What is it that you want Nas to say! Tell us please… You want Nas to down her…T.I supports Iggy too. Is it because Iggy looks different and talk differently does that make her not hip hop? If Nas says that Iggy isn’t hip hop well Nikki is not either!!! Plain and simple homie! Don’t you give Nikki a pass because she shake her fat ass and her shit is definitely not hip hop either! Nas is the truest! He is a real around the way dude. And… that is why we love Nas! He is our People’s Champion!!! The Goat!