Jesus fukking Christ can we get over this once and for all.
This kind of petty grade school bullshyt is beneath multimillionaire artists and businessmen.
Jay ain’t dropping no joint album with his wife and spending thousands upon thousands of dollars in studio time/marketing/ and videos to outshine Nas in twenty fukking eighteen. Beyonce herself would smack the shyt out of him for even the suggestion.
Jay and Beyonce dropped for jay and beyonce reasons (i.e. world tour) and Nas dropped for Nas reasons (the fufillment of his Def Jam contract and the beginning of being the boss of his own label)
Let it go
You've got to talk to your crew on this because they're the one's who insist on running with this.
To be honest, at first I dismissed it for the reasons that you just pointed out but after days of hearing many many people running with the same rumor I'm starting to see the angle. Jay has a history of being petty as an MC not letting shyt slide. It could be that jay didn't like the Nas-Kanye collab and felt a way about it. Go back and listen friends which most think is aimed at Kanye.
Tight circle no squares
I'm geometrically opposed to you
Y'all like to try angles(triangles)
Y'all like to troll, do you?
Is it possible that jay saw Kanye hooking up with Nas as a way of trolling, tryna get an angle to get under his skin? Maybe. Is it possible that jay looked at Nas funny for working with Kanye knowing that he and Kanye were going thru some stuff? Maybe. One of those scenarios or both could be true. I just haven't seen any real evidence so it's all blind speculation. Nothing wrong with speculation amongst fans until feelings get involved. Nas fanboys immediate caught feelings over the possibility that that this might be a "competition" thing. Even if jay was tryna jab Nas and Kanye, so what? That's no need for fans to catch feelings. Nas is a grown ass man. If he feel a way his pen game is proven.
