Dr. Dre decided to team up with Nas on The Firm project and he asked Nas to pick 3 other emcees to complete the supergoup. Nas picked AZ, Foxy Brown and Cormega, but for some reason dropped Cormega, when this came about Jay asked Fox to talk to Nas about him being the final emcee to complete The Firm. When Fox talked to Nas about it Nas declined the offer about Jay and choose Nature instead to be the last member of The Firm.. Since Jay was declined a Firm spot B.I.G. was making his own supergroup called The Commission with Lil Cease and Charli Baltimore and picked Jay up for the project also, but than B.I.G. had a sudden death, and The Commission never came about. Now after being declined a collabo his 1st LP and a firm spot, Jay asked Nas for another collabo and once again Nas bullshitted. So Jay got mad and took a shot at Nas on Imaginary Player with the line “Your Single Was 99 cents mine was 4 bucks” (Before It Was Written Nas dropped If I Ruled The World as a single for 99 cents) Also Jay decided to sample Nas’s voice again for his song Rap Game/Crack Game with the line “Sometimes the Rap Game reminds me of the Crack Game” from Nas's song Represent of of Illmatic. Nas took a shot back at Jay on his I Am album on the song We Will Survive, a song expressing love for Big and Pac he came at Jay with the line “Some people claiming to be New Yorks King it aint about that” referring to Jigga’s song The City Is Mine where Jay claims that B.I.G.’s throne is now being passed down to him. On Memphis Bleek’s song What You Think Of That Jay comes back with the line “These niggas act like I don’t get down or something/like I don’t wear the crown or something” referring to that he is the official King of Ny Nas retaliates on his song Nastradamus “If you wanna ball till you fall I can help you with that/I’ll let a slug melt in ya hat” referring to the hook of Memphis Bleek’s song What you think of that and his tilted signature hat that he always wears. Bleek feeling disrespected comes back at Nas on his Mind Right single “ Your whole life is written/who you dude play your position” Nas responds back to Bleek on The Bridge single with you wanna know who’s life is written/the ice the woman (honestly I don’t remember the rest and I don’t feel like looking up on ohhla.com.) The war of words dies down for about a year but Jigga hears Nas talking about him on a California radio station, he than calls Nas and talks to him and they talk shit out, but than Jigga claims that he hears Nas is talking more shit about how Jay is fucking the rap game up. So on Hot 97 Summer Jam which Jay headlines that year, he pulls Michael Jackson out on stage and he shows a embarrassing picture of Prodigy on the Summer Jam screen, but when he performs his new Takeover song at the end of the 2nd verse he says Ask Nas he don’t want it with Hov Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!! Leaving people in utter shock that Jigga just called Nas out in front of thousands of New Yorkers. So Nas responds with the stillmatic freestyle taking on Jay and his whole ROC squad. Jay than responds with a brand new 3rd verse and 4th verse of his Takeover song on his classic Blueprint LP where he comes at Nas and any other challengers that wanna speak his name. Nas than responds with Ether on his Stillmatic LP. Jay than responds to Ether with Superugly a freestyle but to popular opinion Nas is declared the victor. Jay than responds with The Blueprint 2 song off of his Blueprint 2 LP and claims Nas is a fraud and questions anybody’s motives for backing him in their war of words. Nas than responds in Last Real Nigga Alive declaring his victory against Jigga and saying how he shut him and The Roc down, also he takes a minor jab at Jay on his Back Down Single off of the Bravehearts LP. I know I left out the part about Jay fucking Carmen but honestly I don’t know where that part finds its way in the story I just know its before he releases The Takeover, but I don’t anything else before that. So people stop asking why these niggas got beef, the real question is why weren’t these niggas aint speak each others names sooner. Aso Jigga on The Firm Would have made that CD alot bette than Nature. I know Mods gonna close this thread but i wanted to break this shit down for u youngsters.
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