Ether is fukking hilarious brehs.

[dre]

What makes it seem almost mythical is how they said the label made him tame down the track multiple times...just imagine what the first draft sounded like....

 

[TrifeGod]

Real talk.....Stillmatic freestyle was better than Ether....his flow on that shyt was GODLY. Ether he slowed it down..to let that ether burn slow

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[mcellas]

I tried to upload this to pornhub, but they wouldnt accept rape
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[WeDemBoyz]

Oh so that's wat it comes down to?

What you personally classify as art..and anything outside of that u dismiss as mere entertainment. Yea just like a nas stan to create arguments based on nothing of concrete value

I REPEAT, you are a terrible dikk ridin biggie line bitin camel stan.

 

[Insensitive]

Jay-Z is as much an artist as Nas.

It's funny because in discussions like these people diss Jay-z and give
Nas backhanded compliments.
How quickly we forget Nas was rapping about moving bricks and riches we'll never see.
Jay-Z is less of an artist when he does it yet somehow Nas is more of an artist when he does it.
All the while people will not acknowledge when Jay is rapping his @ss off, on here "American Gangster"
is just "okay" but "Untitled" is the greatest album ever, Reasonable doubt wasn't that nice but It was written
is one of the greatest Hip Hop albums ever, obviously some people have a major bias in favor of Nas.

We seemingly contract amnesia and forget Nas basically said "Fvck the bullsh1t Imma get this money" and said it so blatantly with "Hate me now".
I won't pretend that I was there to take in the impact of it all but listening to both of their discographies I feel people regularly engage in dishonesty when they say Nas doesn't dabble in similar topics to his peers Jay-Z, Pac and Big.

 

[88m3]

Jay-Z is as much an artist as Nas.

If you have to make a statement like that.

Is he?

 

[Wild self]

Did someone just say Jay "makes better art than Nas"?

Jay may have his hundreds of millions and his famous wife and no one can take that away from him(relatively) but at the end of the day Nas has always been and always will be better when it comes to this rap shyt, and that's how he'll be remembered, no matter how much revisionist history Jay and his nut huggers like to spew.

Revisionists? I wish that Jay stans are that kind. Some are trying to erase Nas from Hip Hop History altogether.

 

[deeznutz]

Jay-Z is as much an artist as Nas.

It's funny because in discussions like these people diss Jay-z and give
Nas backhanded compliments.
How quickly we forget Nas was rapping about moving bricks and riches we'll never see.
Jay-Z is less of an artist when he does it yet somehow Nas is more of an artist when he does it.
All the while people will not acknowledge when Jay is rapping his @ss off, on here "American Gangster"
is just "okay" but "Untitled" is the greatest album ever, Reasonable doubt wasn't that nice but It was written
is one of the greatest Hip Hop albums ever, obviously some people have a major bias in favor of Nas.

We seemingly contract amnesia and forget Nas basically said "Fvck the bullsh1t Imma get this money" and said it so blatantly with "Hate me now".
I won't pretend that I was there to take in the impact of it all but listening to both of their discographies I feel people regularly engage in dishonesty when they say Nas doesn't dabble in similar topics to his peers Jay-Z, Pac and Big.

 

[Olu Dara]

Started cockin up my weapon slowly loading up this ammo to explode it on a Camel

 

[WeDemBoyz]

the fukkk that n*gga talking about

 

[WeDemBoyz]

[ame=http://youtu.be/mblf3suYlII]Nas- ether (LIVE) - YouTube[/ame]

How could Nas be garbage? This was in NYC. Listen to the crowd.


Best part 2:55-3:00

 

[The_Third_Man]

The best thing about "ether" is the fact that Nas took his time with it. He wasn't emotionally offended by "takeover" to respond quickly. Some rappers (like Big Daddy Kane) even spoke about how Jay already won and Nas isn't coming back in intreviews. Which gassed Jay up and made him perform "the takeover" on Unplugged with the roots playing Nas beats and jay fans chanting "laaaame". Everybody thought Nas's career was over.

Then "Ether" happend...

 

[YBE]

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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[blackslash]

Jay-Z is as much an artist as Nas.

It's funny because in discussions like these people diss Jay-z and give
Nas backhanded compliments.
How quickly we forget Nas was rapping about moving bricks and riches we'll never see.
Jay-Z is less of an artist when he does it yet somehow Nas is more of an artist when he does it.
All the while people will not acknowledge when Jay is rapping his @ss off, on here "American Gangster"
is just "okay" but "Untitled" is the greatest album ever, Reasonable doubt wasn't that nice but It was written
is one of the greatest Hip Hop albums ever, obviously some people have a major bias in favor of Nas.

We seemingly contract amnesia and forget Nas basically said "Fvck the bullsh1t Imma get this money" and said it so blatantly with "Hate me now".
I won't pretend that I was there to take in the impact of it all but listening to both of their discographies I feel people regularly engage in dishonesty when they say Nas doesn't dabble in similar topics to his peers Jay-Z, Pac and Big.

I REPEAT, you are a terrible dikk ridin biggie line bitin camel stan.