First off, bringing up Nas relationships with 50, Mega and Lake is irrelevant. If you wanna bring that old shyt up, then you gotta bring up how Joe got beef with dudes that used to be in TS like Cuban Linx and Tony Sunshine. Also relationships that also went bad due to industry bullshyt. Nas squashed his beefs with both 50 and Mega, but Joe still beefing with Cuban. And BTW, Nas gave all these dudes shots when they were just starting - took 50 on tour, put Mega on IWW and Lake on God's Son. And the funny thing with 50 and Mega is they ended up getting taken off projects that would have hurt their street credibility anyway. The Firm and a fukkin' J. Lo song - neither big losses for them.
End of the day, Nas doesn't owe Fat Joe shyt and squashing the beef with Hov has nothing to do with Fat Joe. Fat Joe is just a petty snake. It's 2018 and he's whining in interviews about taking the wrong side in a battle from 17 years ago. Motherfukker is a cornball.
And if Joe was really riding with Nas like that, he would have gave him the OK to talk about how Pun hit Jay with the liquor bottle on Ether. He didn't, though. Told him to take it out the song. Nas didn't have to get Joe's approval either, he coulda just kept it in the song. He checked with dude cuz he thought it was the right thing to do. Now Joe feels like he was abandoned? That fat bastid needs to get the fukk outta here with that bullshyt!