Hot 97's Jay Z Crying After ETHER Interview Released

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Jay had the idea for versuz first he said it in this interview lol

Exactly what I was thinking too

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

You seem to be only concerned with dissing women
Were you abused as a child, scared to smile, they called you ugly?

Made him do this





[Interlude]
Say Jay-Z, why you gotta go and disrespect the women for, huh?

[Verse 2: Jay-Z]
(bytch) Sisters get respect, bytches get what they deserve
Sisters work hard, bytches work your nerves
Sisters hold you down, bytches hold you up
Sisters help you progress, bytches will slow you up
Sisters cook up a meal, play their role with the kids
bytches in street with their nose in your biz
Sisters tell the truth, bytches tell lies
Sisters drive cars, bytches wanna ride
Sisters give-up the ass, bytches give-up the ass
Sisters do it slow, bytches do it fast
Sisters do their dirt outside of where they live
bytches have nikkas all up in your crib
Sisters tell you quick "you better check your homie"
bytches don't give a fukk, they wanna check for your homie
Sisters love Jay 'cause they know how Hov' is
I love my sisters, I don't love no bytch

 

[Ziggiy]

You seem to be only concerned with dissing women
Were you abused as a child, scared to smile, they called you ugly?

The funniest shyt ever is seeing Nas cousin Yara Shahidi and her mom bust out verses from Ether during an interview

 

[spliz]

Video did nothing but prove Jay won that battle and thought of Versus first. Called the man AshantiWake me up when Nas make something good as Illmatic

Wake me up when Jay makes something as good as Illmatic. Smh.

 

[NO-BadAzz]

Think it was more the biting and dikkriding shots, the lack of originality, and personal attacks. To this day, the biggest criticism you can hit Jay with is that he almost never brought anything original to the table. He a GOAT but story of his career is being an extremely dope rapper who very skilled at hopping on the latest trend and putting his spin on it.

The "Foxy got you hot cause you kept your face in her puss, what you think you getting girls now cause of your looks (with the "I love GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS" adlib in a super disgusted voice ) was straight up disrespectful

And the gay jokes seem weak or lazy in 2022 but calling another black man gay in that era, one with a image as masculine as Jay's, was seen as extremely disrespectful. You just didn't do that. Especially, "you a dikkriding fakkit, you love the attention, Queens nikkas run you nikkas, act Russell Simmons" was delivered in such a disrespectful tone it's hard to convey how hard that line hit back then

Breh I enjoy reading post from brehs who actually was around when things happened in real time.

Real time accounts are priceless.

 

[Chip Skylark]

You seem to be only concerned with dissing women
Were you abused as a child, scared to smile, they called you ugly?

“They’re no such thing as a ugly billionaire I’m cute”




yeah Hov hasn’t let that down since

 

[IllmaticDelta]

never understood why he was so shook up

he was shook because he got ethered by his idol

lol nikka said dikk sucking lips and roc fella died of aids lol
and the fact it took nas 3 months to write/respond to wouldnt fly in the social media age

Jayz was still responding to Ether on 4:44, more 15 years later

 

[Nomad1]

Nas defeating Jay was THE best thing that ever happened in hip hop, the underdog literally slaying the camel dragon that was propped up and protected by the industry.

 

[HNIC973]

The most hilarious part of all of this was Def Jam/ Rocafella stopped the Stillmatic freestyle from being played. Nas addressed this on the General
ya label all scared Callin
Up the radio don't, want my records to air Y'all
Ain't playin fair

Imagine stacking the deck & still losing






Then coming back with Blueprint 2 admitting defeat with horrible Austin Powers impersonation as the hook"Oh B-e-h-a-v-e"

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

who gon bail that person out of jail??

grasping ALL the straws

 

[Chip Skylark]

never understood why he was so shook up
lol nikka said dikk sucking lips and roc fella died of aids lol
and the fact it took nas 3 months to write/respond to wouldnt fly in the social media age

Jigga on takeover

Know you's the faq model for Karl Kani, Esco ads

That's why your (lame) career's come to an end

but

i am debuted at Number 1 selling 470,000 and went double platinum

Nastradamus also went platinum

Nas was on Hot Boys with Missy that was 5 on the billboard

We can talk about the rest of takeover too if you want

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Nas had better disses to Jay and the entire rocafella than ether. H to the omo freestyle, you're da man, last real nikka alive, etc

 

[spliz]

It was this and getting with Beyoncé that saved him. He benefitted from that greatly. It wasn't looking good for Jigga in 02

Alotta people don’t remember this. But Jay was not in great favor in the streets for that year and a half for the most part. Chink in the armor.

 

[spliz]

The whole third verse did him in.. I really feel like the first two was throwaways.. But the third was just line after line of pure craziness

The reason for it is cause Nas had the tone Ether down twice before he released the version we got. The record label said it was too harsh and disrespectful so they wouldn’t let Nas put it out.

 

[spliz]

never understood why he was so shook up
lol nikka said dikk sucking lips and roc fella died of aids lol
and the fact it took nas 3 months to write/respond to wouldnt fly in the social media age

Nas was talking to JAY on Ether. Poked fun at all of his insecurities and said shyt that him and Jay personally knew was true even if the world didn’t. Then he made it catchy and had everybody running around saying “fukk Jay Z”. Droppin the diss on his birthday etc etc. Jay was talkin to the public. Nas was talking to Jay. Nas knew Jay more than any of the public did. So he played against his insecurities.