Ether is fukking hilarious brehs.

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Ether is absolutely the GOAT diss record. Before Nas dropped that record he was looking weak as hell. Dropped weak ass Nastradamus album and got clowned by Jay-Z on The Takeover. The Blueprint was such a hot album at the time, since Nas hadn’t responded for months heads were starting to say that Nas was finished. Fell off. He dropped Ether like a nuclear bomb :banderas:
 

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Ether was a psychological diss. He applied pressure where Jay's insecurities were and let him know that no matter how successful he was he would still be his little man. But he did it in the way to let us know he didn't want to do it and Jay forced his hands. Like a mafia boss forced to take out his beloved lieutenant.

After that cocky jay on wax disappeared forever even on great records like the black album.

For them to be homies after that is surprising. Cordial yes but homies, no. Thoses disses were brutal
 
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Ether was a psychological diss. He applied pressure where Jay's insecurities were and let him know that no matter how successful he was he would still be his little man. But he did it in the way to let us know he didn't want to do it and Jay forced his hands. Like a mafia boss forced to take out his beloved lieutenant.

After that cocky jay on wax disappeared for ever even on great records like the black album.

For them to be homies after that is surprising. Cordial yes but homies, no. Thoses disses were brutal

That's why when they say that it was school yard insults I laugh at them

That's the whole point man lol. And you're spot on with Jay Z not being as cocky as he used to be. If you were there the level of brashness he was on was unbelievable.
 

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Ether is absolutely the GOAT diss record. Before Nas dropped that record he was looking weak as hell. Dropped weak ass Nastradamus album and got clowned by Jay-Z on The Takeover. The Blueprint was such a hot album at the time, since Nas hadn’t responded for months heads were starting to say that Nas was finished. Fell off. He dropped Ether like a nuclear bomb :banderas:
I remember when I copped Stillmatic. I'm leaving out the mom n pop record shop(shout out to gb's records and tapes), I put the CD in the deck, and when I heard the stillmatic intro, I was like "uh oh.....Jay might be in trouble. Nas done found another gear." Then "Ether" came on and I was like DAMN:damn:

Even my lil sister was like "DID YOU HEAR THAT NAS SONG ABOUT JAY Z????!!!!!!"



Great times. Hard to believe we are almost nearing a quarter century since it dropped
 

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I remember when I copped Stillmatic. I'm leaving out the mom n pop record shop(shout out to gb's records and tapes), I put the CD in the deck, and when I heard the stillmatic intro, I was like "uh oh.....Jay might be in trouble. Nas done found another gear." Then "Ether" came on and I was like DAMN:damn:

Even my lil sister was like "DID YOU HEAR THAT NAS SONG ABOUT JAY Z????!!!!!!"



Great times. Hard to believe we are almost nearing a quarter century since it dropped
Word. I was in college & vividly remember I would be at my main man Greg’s spot and we would be playing that shyt on repeat sipping and smoking. Great times!
 
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