Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
No, they don’t.
Not like they know Jay songs. “Can I Get A...” is some chit that (and I quote)
“got played at every Bar Mitzvah”. Those are the songs that win on Versuz,
and Nas doesn’t have very many songs like that.
All of those songs I named are well-known Nas records. Illmatic is the one album that Nas is universally given credit for, and the album that a lot of people use to make it seem like they're really into hip hop when they're not. "If I Ruled the World" had its lyrics put on Sprite cans. "Made You Look" is an iconic banger in Nas' catalogue.
I get that Jay has more commercial, radio-friendly tracks to choose from, but it's not like people don't know Nas' songs like that. He has hits.