There were several thing that made either just...
1. To me, the entire song came off as Nas not even wanting to say that stuff about Jay. It came off as "aight Jay I was going to let it slide but you been bumping your gums a little to much so lets have a man to man talk". And it felt like he was holding back alot, it felt like the entire point of the song was to let Jay know that even with all the stuff he did say, he could have said more.
2. Some of the lines were just so
. Like...if you take them out of the context of the song. Imagine you walk into a Burger King and you see four nikkas standing around and you can tell two of them are arguing back and forth, they both have the
face, and they are talking just loud enough for you to hear some of it, and all of a sudden one of them says "You been on my dikk nikka, you love my style nikka!"
Wouldn't you be like "Who the fukk just got sonned like that
Imagine sitting down at a waffle house and you see three old men arguing and out of the blue one of them says "Yall nikkas deal with emotions like bytches" Wouldn't you be like
"who just got sonned like that"...That is what I kept thinking when I first heard the song...How can one grown man talk to another grown man like this...and that is what Nas was doing...Nas was talking to Jay...no scratch that...Nasir Jones was talking to Sean Carter...
3. Even the most battle tested Jigga warrior has to admit that Jay is self conscious about himself, especially his looks, as he makes countless reference in songs about girls not messing with him until he got some money, so for nas to come at Jay from that angle was just...vulgar...
..."scared to smile they called you ugly"...that is bringing up some old 8th grade shyt...thats some deep rooted shyt...that's some shyt Jay prob use to right about in his diary ( today i smiled and they still called me ugly...how can i make it so they don't call me ugly anymore). Especially brutal was the "Foxy got you hot cause you kept your face in her puss...what you think you getting girls now because of your lucks? Negro please ( the negro please killed me )...this is just some
shyt right here...I mean...Nas is insinuating that the only reason Jay can get women is because foxy told the women in the industry that jay eat the puss...so now these chicks is lined up to get they puss ate...not to have sex with you...to get they puss ate...not to dome you up...to get they puss ate...imagine as a man someone told you that..."nikka chicks only fukk with you because you eat p*ssy"...that just vulgar...
4. Jay was a much bigger artist at the time...but the entire song seems as if Nas is talking down to Jay...like, with all the money, the power, the fame, the women, Nas is still looking at Jay as a little nikka..."In 88 you were getting chased through your building calling my crib and I ain't even give you my number"...Jay is out here portraying himself as some big time drug dealer and Nas comes in and says "nah you was getting chased around and then you called me for help and I didn't even know you like that"..."smiling in my face glad to break bread with the god"...
Damn Jay, you were so enamored with Nas you was just happy to be in the same room as him...just...vulgar...
As an added bonus...what happened to all of Jay's alter ego's around this time. Wasn't he Hovito then? Wasn't he the "Black Brad Pitt" then? Wasn't he Euro Hov and European Jay then? Ether shook Jay up so bad my man just straight up dropped all his alter ego's...that's just..vulgar
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