Watch out!!! We run New York! I don't care if you Mobb Deep, I hold triggers to crews, You little fuck, I got money stacks bigger than you. Get zipped up in plastic when it happens, that's it. The Broad Street Bully, we runnin' this rap shit. We bring knife to fistfight, kill your drama, We kill you, mothafuckin' ants, with a sledgehammer, Don't let me do it to you, dunny, ‘cause I overdo it, So you won't confuse it with ‘just rap music'. It's like bringin' a knife to a gunfight, pen to a test, Your chest in the line of fire with your thin-ass vest, You bringin' them boys to men, how them boys gonna win? This is grown man B.I., get you rolled into triage, biatch! Your reach ain't long enough, dunny, Your peeps ain't strong enough, fucka! Roc-a-Fella is the army, better yet the navy, Niggas'll kidnap your babies, spit at your lady.
Hey, lil soldier, you ain't ready for war, R.O.C. The takeover, the break's over, nigga, God MC, me, Jay-Hova. The final vote was only 52% Nas so either opinion is understandable.Come on! R.O.C., we runnin' this rap shit. If you’re Nas fan who doesn’t like Jay-Z’s output from 1996-2001 then you’d think Ether would be the far better diss and ignore the excessive namecalling. Both are great diss tracks but if you’re a Jay-Z fan and not a Nas fan you probably wouldn’t care about most of Nas' points and think Jay-Z won since he did fuck Nas' baby mama and was a more “real” gangster than Nas. Some people criticize Ether for lots of filler bars/namecalling but it’s believed that these were replacements for more controversial insults that the label wouldn’t allow, like saying Jay-Z should have died in the plane crash instead of Aaliyah and a story about Terror Squad killing Jay-Z with shotguns. Jay-Z has been outrapped by Beanie Siegel and Eminem on Renegade (I think they were both good on Renegade) Jay-Z found a lot of commercial success from misogynistic radio singles (Nas has You Owe Me, Big Girl, and Oochie Wally but Jay-Z has a few more than him)ħ. (Granted Nas was also inspired by Rakim/Kool G Rap/others and was influenced by Biggie and Pac as well)ĥ. He took his name from Jaz-O, and took the album title “The Blueprint” from KRS-One. Jay-Z is disrespecting hiphop culture by calling himself god (Jay-Hova) and claiming he is better than Pac and Biggieģ. It’s ridiculous Jay is attacking him since Jay loves Nas' style, seen by him changing his rapping style post-Illmatic, sampling his voice, and referencing Nas and the firm in his lyrics.Ģ. All three verses involve both announcing his comeback and going after exclusively Jay-Z and ROC Nas cleverly flips Jay’s interlude on U Don’t Know for the hook. Some of these points are obfuscations of the truth but 1 and 6 are pretty damning.Įther has a less-polished beat but is still very iconic. Jay-Z released more commercially successful albums starting from 1996 than Nas has released albums that Jay-Z likes since his first feature in 1991 (even though Jay-Z’s first feature is even earlier on Hawaiian Sophie)Ħ. Nas is a fake thug since Jay-Z brandished a Tec-9 on tour with him back in the late 80s/early 90s and Nas hasn’t done gangster stuff like Jay-Zĥ. Nas has become irrelevant after the failures of IWW, I Am and Nastradamus and Illmatic was his only good album (about half of hiphop fans believe this)Īnd he was outrapped by Horse on Oochie WallyĤ.
Mobb Deep are fake thugs because Prodigy was a dancer as a kid (same applies to Tupac)ģ. ROC is the most commercially successful clique in NYĢ.
3rd verse is a pretty dense attack on Nas, and 4th verse is more bragging/wordplay. 2nd verse is mostly the same but he attacks Mobb Deep.
Takeover is a very pounding and energetic track musically, and the Bowie voice samples are really great at pissing you off. I looked into this recently and basically Takeover vs Ether comes down to both the lyricism/musicality of both songs and the points both songs make.