Nas - King's Disease III (Discussion Thread)
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EastsideRio
You Can’t Stop The Rain ☔️
Carmen talked about that scenario EXACTLY. Big was actually hurt and upset that Nas walked by him and didn’t acknowledge him and according to Carmen Nas’s response was exactly some “nikka shyt”. “Well why didn’t he acknowledge ME!?”
People forget all these nikkas were millionaire, chart topping rappers BEFORE they were 25 years old! Thats INSANE when you think about the amount of power, influence, and talent these guys wielded at such young ages. Add in the natural competition of hip hop, crews beefing with each other, yes men whispering in your ear, its a wonder ANY of these dudes are alive to tell these tales.
And am I the only one slightly annoyed by people acting like the Jay/Nas beef is still some great mystery? Anyone whose read/listened to any interview that these nikkas gave around the time of the battle or even LISTENED to the diss records knows what got the beef going
-Nas not showing up to the studio to record on Reasonable Doubt
-Nas not acknowledging Jay early in his career whilst Jay was a big Nas fan and shouted him out numerous times
-Jay having a relationship with Carmen
-Good ole fashioned rap competition for the King Of New York crown.
Mix those together and VIOLA! RAP BEEF nikkaS!
Piff Perkins
Veteran
There's a vid of Big being driven around NY in 95 listening to OB4CL and I always wondered what he thought about the biting diss on there. He responded to Rae's diss directly but when you think about it, you got two of the dopest rappers in the world (Ghost and Rae) joking about your shyt, calling you a biter...and then the very next track is another one of the dopest dudes in the world (Nas) rocking with them. As if he cosigns the message of the skit. I'm not saying Nas did, but you get my point...to Biggie it would look like that. And given that Biggie was far more successful than them in 95 and early 96 of course it would look like jealousy.
Flip side from Nas' perspective you dropped a classic album, people slept, Biggie becomes the undisputed That Dude from NY, and you're on the path of going broke before even starting on your second album. Certainly cause for feeling some type of way, and of course that gets us to the "there can only be one king" line from IWW. I don't think they were at each other's throats - Nas has said Big called him and complimented him on the success of IWW for instance. But of course he then dissed him on Life After Death. I think that was just elite nikkas sparring at the top. And when Big died it later became the next elite nikka (Jay) sparring with Nas.
JUSTIN HERBERT
Banned
werd up
as a nas fan i could do better
ahem
This old mufukkah tryna talk about black issues when his hair gray. how fukked up is that?
What he still tryna kick knowledge? no-one tryna hear about 88 still
My grandpa was in the hospital last year and he asked me if nas still made music, i said yeah, then all a sudden he passes in disbelief.
Nas said Big asked him about it directly. He said he told Nas he wasn’t biting and Nas told him that Rae and Ghost felt how they felt but Nas was cool.
LOST IN THE SAUCE
The Sauce Apostle
He also said he 'used that,' and took points from it to get ahead, or something like that. I think it was the Drink Champs interview. Makes me think he rode the wave and probably said something to Big about it.
HNIC973
R.I.P Bandana P
beenz
Rap Guerilla
I just negged homie and keep it moving.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
Well fellas, unless we start getting promo next week, I don’t know when we will be getting the album
u never know. "magic" just showed up around christmas time like
no promo whatsoever.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
isn't nas independent? he probably doesn't even care about sales or promo that much at this point.