Full Post-Ether Interview with an Emotional Jay Z on Hot 97

[TheDarceKnight]

Hov was actin like a nikka who just got K.O'd in the playground and the WHOLE school watched and now he comes in everyday to justify how they were ''just playing'' and ''it wasnt alll that''

''this scar, nahh it'll heal we were just playing''

nikkas soul WAS BURNINNGGGGG

Dead at that gif. Holy shyt!

 

[Obtain Knowledge]

Jay-Z was hurt like a motherf*cker by that "Ether". That n*gga ain't been right since "Ether" either.

 

[deeznutz]

I absolutely fukkin love ether and what it did especially since i was able to witness it back when it first dropped and the excitement from everyone when it dropped. The reactions were epic.

camel jockeys always try to down play it by saying that it was over 10 years ago but I don't give a shyt. I can talk about ether all day everyday and I probably will be still reminiscing for the next 30 years about it. the shyt was that great.

i swear ether completely burned jay's soul got him doing techno music these days

if ether was a girl i'd fukk the shyt out of her

 

[Kings County]

Calling someone "cockafella" is worse than fukking his wive and exposing nas as a fake gangster?

word i never got that

super ugly and takeover were the better records

 

[Ego Noir]

 

[Ego Noir]

Think about somebody in your profession/craft/whatever that you truly admire, and this person has had a real influence on how you do what you do...

Putting all the financial success aside, you want this person to respect you as an ARTIST like him (not all that fake "I like him because he is a good businessman/hustler garbage), basically your soul needs this person to validate your craft, and put his stamp of approval on it...You need this happen...

So you make attempts to collaborate and break bread with your "artistic hero," and you have all money in the world to make this happen...

Unfortunately, this person rejects you...Over time you become bitter, and when you reach the height of your popularity in the game, you start thinking to yourself, "F+ck him, I am rich, I am the hottest thing right now, I can destroy this person, everybody loves me"

So, You go on a full out war with this person, and instead of you getting the best of him, he exposes your true identity, and the useless motive for this beef...

He reminds you that even with all the financial success you have, he is still your father, and he can spank you whenever he wishes, because ARTISTICALLY, you are still not on his level, and to make matters worse, the public agrees with him...

To understand why "Ether" is so effective, you have to think about it this way...

Look at what is happening with the Muslims and Jews, it is because of "Ether" a.k.a rejection from somebody you admire and respect...

Have you read "The Great Gatsby" that's another example of why the theme of "Ether" is so effective...

Have you watched "Casino" DeNiro was in love with Sharon Stone's character and willing to give her everything she wanted, but she rejected him for some no good loser, again, this why the theme of "Ether" is so effective...

If you don't understand why "Ether" is so "vulgar" and demoralizing, thank your fortune, because people who have felt it know how deeply it hurts...

It burns the soul...

Surgical dissection of the fire that is Ether. If anyone ever asks why, refer to the above. Jay-Z will forever call Nas daddy.



That Ether, the **** that make your soul burnnn slow...

 

[spliz]

For real i have to agree. Nas won because jay took it the hardest by far but what did Nas say that was THAT soul crushing to him?

I been tryna tell nikkas who try to write Ether off as lies that Nas was directing Ether at JAY specifically...he said shyt they both knew and not the public...thats the difference between the disses...Takeover was for the fans. ..Ether was for Jay....thats why it effected Jay like that and threw him off his game...on another note...the interview that him and Jay did wit Sway on MTV was hilarious when they was praisin Takeover n shyt and talkin bout how u can't come back from that and Nas just cut in and said "then I just lit a bomb" and the room got mad quiet and awkward for like 5 seconds..then they all started laughin..lol..

 

[Consigliere]

Jay was shook cuz he thought he had it all planned out. Then Nas shytted on him and he saw he how much he misplayed his hand.

Jay coulda, shoulda, woulda won if he came harder on Takeover. He knocked out Prodigy and tapped Nas' chin when he shoulda knocked out Nas and tapped P.

Also, IMO Is That Your bytch was the original Ether.

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

its just a sport and this nikka nas was commentin about jays lips and looks? nas lost

 

[Piff Perkins]

a sport?

Only the most craven nikkas use the "we wasn't trying to win tho" argument.

 

[MostReal]

it's just a sport

It's like he's soul was literally burning slow and he couldn't grasp what had happened to him.

yep


The reason Ether is still relevant is because it is a Timeless record. Music that great you can listen & discuss 30yrs from now. That's what JayZ means about Nas being an 'artist that he respected'. He had too.

 

[Will2x]

Damn this is too much, it's like watching a victim of a atomic bomb. It really chokes you up.

 

[AkaDemiK]

the gawd Nasir

 

[Silkk]

7:20

"I didnt hear the siegel thing"

"But you was in the room "

"Yea..b.b.bb.b.b.ut it was 150 dudes in the room

 

[Rufus Dufus]

"I'm like wowww...This dude is going all the way there. It's not even a sport."