Given the fact that Nas and Jay-Z have now reconciled their 2001 beef, the question of who won the legendary battle between them always makes for an entertaining interview. When asked about Jay’s line in “Takeover” about how Jay allegedly showed Nas his first Tec-9 while the pair were on tour with him, Large Professor gave his thoughts on the line and the entire battle.
“It was just a matter of Jay stating the facts,” Large Professor told Maya The B and Mitchell Jackson of ThisIs50 Radio. “He was trying to bring a lot of facts to the table, and he was going at Nas. Someway, somehow it as a, ‘Yo, you was on tour with Large Professor’ type of thing. We was all on tour—on that same level and all of that.”
Despite being from what both “Takeover” and “Ether” insinuated were rivaling boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, Large Professor said there was no beef during the early days when Nas and Jay toured with him. He did add that, like most quality Hip Hop, there was a friendly competition between all artists involved. Ultimately, Large Professor said he enjoyed the energy and production of “Takeover” but preferred Nas’ rhymes on “Ether.”
The early-Aughts beef between Nas and Jay would spill over onto two albums, with Nas releasing “Last Real Nigga Alive” and Jay-Z throwing additional shots on “Blueprint 2.” Cooler heads prevailed, and there were additional barbs from Nas that the public never saw. Hot 97 stopped Nas’ attempt to hang Jay in effigy at Summer Jam. And Large Professor adds that there was a more malicious version of “Ether” that was never made public.
“When Nas was first recording “Ether” it was over a Swizz Beatz beat, and he was getting at him,” Large Professor added. “That was the original lyrics about, ‘It should’ve been you on the plane crash,’ and all of that. I was there and I was kind of hype, but you know I’m like an adrenaline junkie.”
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if it was over another beat and had different lyrics then what does that have to do with ether?
Cause that was supposed to be the original ether, or a part of it
hiphopdx always up with irrelevant articles
Irrelevant to your cornball ass. Not to real Hip-Hop heads.
Cosign GRABY. Irevelent to kids that weren’t lucky enough to be old enough to buy them record or even understand what was going on. But it is relevent to the millions of peeps that bought those albums and and still enjoy them.
The beat for Ether was nothing special, but i’m glad Shitz Beatz version stayed locked in the vault.
I wanna hear this more malicious version of ether! someone leak it!
lol
God damn, will this shitty, worthless debate ever stop?
This could possibly be the lyrics to the “original” ether but no one has ever confirmed it
http://rapgenius.com/discussions/6046-Nas-ether-the-original-version-leaked-deep-lyrical-shit
There are some good lines but can’t say its anything to amazing. Kind of interesting about Jay Z and Terror Squad (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\)
I think the Ether they released had way better lines (You ass, went from Jaz to hanging with Kane, to Irv, to Big) That line kind of sticks because he’s now just sticking with kanye west.
Both, Ether and Takeover, are overrated. Last Real Nigga Alive and Blueprint were the far better tracks.
@Anonymous #2
So you hold unorthodox beliefs and contrary opinions to your contemporaries.
You must be so unique.
LOL
^Condescending Wonka!
thank god i grew up on the west and did not care about either of these wack ass major label clowns
West grown over here and I bumped the hell outta both those tracks back then (still do on occasion). Fuck you talking about? Go play your Wiz Khalifa in your mom’s basement lil man.
Name a good rapper?
co sign first Anon
back in the cali nobody gave a fuck bout the jay-z/nas beef
these east coast rappers pretending selling cocaine and playing this mafioso shit are wack anyway
damn i m getting tired of this nas/jay z shit even mature adults like rashad philips write articles about it.FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO
Co sign
Ether is so overrated, it’s unbelievable.
Kick your little lies I kick my real facts
Like you sneaking out the back of the Source Soundlab
This nigga never sold Aspirin, how you Escobar?
Had to buy your chain back last time you got robbed
Me and the boy AI got more in common than just balling and rhyming
Get it? More in Carmen
I came in your Bentley backseat, skeeted in your Jeep
Left condoms on your baby seat
And since you infatuated with saying that gay shit
Yes you was kissing my dick when you was kissing that bitch
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Everything Nas could’ve ever thought about saying.
1) Jay-Z never sold any drugs. He had no criminal record until he took the wrap for his boy stabbing Un. When Jay-Z was a teen, he sat around the house and moped while his mother and sister starved.
2) By Jay’s very logic, he was kissing Nas’ dick every time that he kissed Carmen. And don’t pretend that Jay didn’t Kiss Carmen.
3) If you think that fucking Carmen makes Jay-Z a better man, then you’ve got your priorities all wrong. Girls never define a man. A man’s gotta define himself.
4) You’re a fucking faggot and you like it when guys skeet on you, unless it gets in your hair.
If you hate Ether, you werent around when it came out, i know die hard Hov heads from BK that were like WHOA when Ether came out, New York voted it the better track, if you dont like Ether or think its overrated, your either not into real rap music serious JayZ dick rider. Like seriously, everyone knows Jay is the one that has the better higher quality body of work, but Nas got him on Ether period.
And Illmatic > Reasonable Doubt
Ether was ok and they voted it against superugly a minute and a half nothing of a song. Compared to the takeover ether isnt shit sorry but its good lyricism compared to real facts..look up the older large professor interview when he even says nas first time seeing a tek was jays on tour in dc. And illmatic is nas’s only album where ill put it in and listen tothe whole thing..and that shits ten songs. Reasonable doubt, bp1, the black album and bp2 i can play thru without question.
@2nd anom.
So you can’t play it was written or God’s son all the way through smh plus life is good> bp3
Both of them niggas are ill I wish ppl would just move forward and enjoy their work.Jay has always been a fan of Nas and vise versa.
Nas is a far better emcee then Jay. “Ether” is the one battle track that displays how to be victorious in a well-known battle of hip hop greats. NAS gets the W !!!
Nas had “ether” Great Song: Jay had “takeover” Great song, Super Ugly Great song (“came in your bentley backseat, skeeted in your jeep left condoms on your baby seat”) ouch! Blueprint2 great song, What More Can i say Great song. I love both artists, but since i tend to like real lyrics about real things, im gonna have to side with 4 songs about truthful things than one Great jokey (playing the dozens like) song. Real or fake im going with the real. BUT LIKE GROWN MEN THEY PUT THIS BEHIND THEM AND SO SHOULD WE……..BUT I THINK JAY WON
NAS :
YOURE DA MAN
EVERYBODYS CRAZY
LAST REAL NIGGA ALIVE “I WAS SCARFACE,JAY WAS MANOLO,AND HURT ME WHEN I HAD TO KILL EM , AND HIS WHOLE SQUAD FO DOLO”
NAZARETH SAVAGE
PLUS ETHER
ETHER=MC BURIAL
excuse me, WE ALL WON
what did you think of destroy & rebuild?
very good song, loved it but it wasnt on the same level as the pre-formentioned songs. Im not saying it was a blow out, but at that point in time in my life i was feeling Jays point. but it all probably comes down to what station in life you were at in your life at that time, that colors your (or mine) opinion. its very rare that we get two greats going at it on that level. so WE ALL WON
SDK…Apparently you preferred jokes i just preferred facts. Ether was great dont get me wrong but it was camel face, you 33 in a karate class, type stuff (funny shirt w/o the r). to “is it ouchie wally wally or is it one mic, is it black girl lost or shorty owe you for ice”
and to put this nicely (cause of my respect to his lyrical ability), isnt Nas sorta like Rick Ross in the respect that he makes great music but the actual bio is umm
inaccurate?
never…ever compare rick ross terrible career and life story to NAS please…please..NAS classic songs and classic meaningful songs 1 mic, rule the world…rick ross is a stupid rapper rapping about nonsense kill yourself
Thats great^ haha really though rick ross is a chump who shouldnt be breathing into a mic
@nasnothinglikefat
not even TRYING to hide your bias.
ross has meaningful songs too. how come you want to ignore nas ignorant songs and only focus on ross’?
they both in the same boat ocen is 100% correct. bias dickriding bullshit aside.
Nas is the 90’s version of Rick Ross, only difference is his rapping skills.
ok that was wrong, cause nas is a lyricist and ross is not
HOV KILLED HIM….MY OPINION , SO PLEASE GET OF MY DICK …
dumbass. go listen to drake. this is big boys shit. Gay-z’s a faggot like you
lol. ether was child’s play and wack as fuck.
boooo to this article
Pac went at Nas, Big went at Nas, and Jay went at Nas. Obviously in their eyes Nas was the one to beat……
pac was the only one to put nas in his place. nas was too smart to try to put out an ether on pac
Mobb deep did it for him on “Drop a gem”
nas dissed pac though.
“black parelli’s, rolling over that makaveli, 2 classic lp’s, and still the fed’s tap my celly”.
‘TWAS A GREAT BATTLE
JAY’S MOMMA MADE HIM APOLOGIZE & SHUT DOWN SUPERUGLY THAT’S AN L
I’VE HEARD ETHER ALL UP & DOWN I5
SH!T JUST ON SUNDAY I HEARD SEAN PRICE BLASTIN IN A CAR
N!GGAS NEED TO STOP ALL DAT SEPARATION BULLSH!T
What comes down to it is that none rappers these days can make a genuine rap beef like Nas & Jay did. One of a kind beef and will live legendary no matter who’s side you are on. They both making good music and still can keep their fans buying in 2012, the era of clouded fucked up music.
Mobb Deep is trash and never could touch 2Pac. Nas and Biggie Smalls couldn’t touch him neither. Jay Z on the other hand, well I’m a Pac fan, so I’ll end it at that…
biggie shits on Pac with lyrics aand flows you dumbass. pac is the most overated rapper ever
hahaha exactly. pac is over rated man. i grew up in the 90s i liked pac but i never saw him as the best that did it then. when i was a kid and pac was spittin or after he died we still looked at biggie/ny rappers (by the way pac was born in manhattan if im correct). plus Mobb Deep dissed him on Drop A Gem on Em if you listen to Prodigy’s last verse he made Pac look ike a dumbass. Big too on his end. best part about it these dudes never said his name and their fans caught that shit. just a different level of wittiness is needed when arguing against biggie/nas and stuff. i love pac but no way shape or form did i think he could ever ever fuck with nas on some barb wire bar for bar shit. come on yo. be real. the catalogues are there.
THE LYRICS OF ETHER IS WRITTEN IN THE “RAP HISTORY BOOK” THAT WAS ONE OF THE DOPEST DISS TRACKS I’VE EVER HEARD. 300BARS IS COOL BUT ETHER CMON ? NAS ? ETHER KILLED IT AND I’LL PUT MY MONEY ANY DAY ON NAS AS A DOPER RAPPER THAN JAY
Gay-z sucks camel dick
Thank fuck Nas didn’t go with Swizz
nas should do an album with rick ross. then you have the fake nas escobar and the fake rick ross. both claiming to be drugdealers and killaz. lol oh and fuck the nas and ross stans
http://cdn.necolebitchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Nas-and-Jay-z-Life-Is-Good-Release.jpg
That is for all you dumb fucks.
Cormega – F**K Nas and Nature was one of the heaviest diss tracks….The beat was incredible. Just wanted to put that out there.
respect
I found a white label vinyl of the single for “F**k Nas” at a used bookstore for like a dollar last year. Pretty sick find.
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lol, if not for anything else. Peace to Large Pro for dose’n us with some unknown hip-hop history!
Lmao, Nas goes from Urban Plato to war-lord Hannibal Barca when it comes to competition.
Can’t wait till I get my hands on the new Nas.
nas is the most overrated rapper of all time. good lyricist but hasnt moved with the times at all, completely stuck in the past. life is good is ok but brings absolutely nothing new to the table. jay’s switched it up no end, nas’ insistence on making safe tracks puts him, as an all round artist, below jay-z in my opinion
Safe tracks??? Examples please. His subject matter is no where close to safe.
Hahaha. Nas makes safe tracks? Yeah, Jay-Z never does anything accessible, creativity is his middle name. Fuck outta here
go back to top 40 fagget,leave hip hop to real niggas
most overrated rapper i think you lost your mind
youve got that soo backwards.. jay’s career has become about as safe as you can get, while nas always testing the line.. are you forgetting his album he left as Untitled???
also life is good is faaaaaar from “ok”
Everyone keeps saying Ether was better but only the last verse in Ether was really hot. Nas won the battle but Jay won the war. Jay had three diss tracks to Nas with what has been determined to be all facts by various individuals, including Nas. Do people forget how ill Super Ugly was? Personally I give Ether the slight edge head to head with Takeover but overall Jay won the battle.
I think people forget how good H to the OMO was too though.
Word. On that disrespectful lane that Nas was going for with Ether, Supa Ugly was way harder because it was all facts.
jay spit about other peoples perspectives. nas spit about jay’s psychology. nas wins.
yeah Jigga had Superugly but Nas also had the stillmatic freestyle where he not only blasted Jigga, he also blasted Freeway, Bleek n Beans
KID FUCKEEEEE BROUGHT THE TEMPO DOWN THATS RIGHT SHITZZZZ WEAK!!!!!!!!!!