Nas-Ether (1st Reaction Coli- Edition)

[Da_Eggman]

i read about it and heard it was gonna be crazy but i honestly was worried there was no way to come back from Takeover...it was all over Napster but i refused to listen to it i wanted to wait till i copped the cd

i cop it the day it dropped on a Tuesday after school and thre it in my cd player before i left the store listen to stillmatic and thought "ok thats cool'...than

POW POW POW

"fukk Jay-Z"




You, what?

"fukk Jay-Z"

"You been on my dikk nikka, you love my style"

than it was quotable after quotable....i didnt even listen to the full album for like a week cuz i just keep listing to it over and over every-time hearing something new

trying to figure out what certain shyt meant


Just Hawaiian shirts, hangin with little Chase....


Rockefeller died of AIDS, that was the end of his chapter
And that's the guy y'all chose to name your company after?....


You no mustache havin, with whiskers like a rat
Compared to Beans you wack....

shyt was just a kinda feeling that can never be created again

 

[vaudevillevillain]

 

[a murda]

that 3rd verse
VOTY

Beans is gonna eat good off this one

I hope he dont fukk up

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Save this for Ether day

Don't worry,I got ether day covered

 

[mson]

Don't worry,I got ether day covered

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

Camels reaction...

:

Spoiler

so vulgar

 

[a murda]

Camels reaction...

:

Spoiler

so vulgar

damn

 

[Da King]

I was like

Because I knew we'd be eating real good off this track for a long time

 

[45123]

My first reaction was kinda shock... I didn't think Nas had it in him to be so vulgar and disrespectful...

Then I realized that Nas is the kinda n1gga you never want to get in a snap battle with...You might be sitting there just thinking you cool but the whole time he's looking at all the flaws in your face, teeth, voice, character and body language thinking about how much you disgust him...

The classic Virgo

 

[Foxmulder]

That's my goat

 

[Digital Dre]

Ether was that haymaker from out of nowhere after Jay had son on the ropes and ready to be KTFO

 

[blackslash]

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

The classic Virgo

 

[prophecypro]

I remember it was the big Christmas party of freshmen year in college before everyone headed off to break and I was meeting up with my brehs at one of our friends' place before we hit the spot and he had Ether on deck cause it was just recorded off the radio. Everyone was like

couple of people tried to play it off cause it may not hit you off like Takeover but the energy surrounding the record on the radio that winter helped it a lot (The fact that they were people debating it and Fat Joe and Kay Slay were riding it hard and there was talk of it getting blasted the same night at NYC clubs like the tunnel or some spot gave it that energy. Plus that same weekend I think the Hip Hop shows started leaking the OTHER tracks off Stillmatic and hearing Ether with You're the Man, One Mic, 2nd Childhood and Destroy and Rebuild had me like he's fukking back . Even that Rule shyt to just comment on 9/11 and world politics)


Honestly the flaws in the record like the beat and Nas all over the place kinda made it more grimy and appealable to late 90s/early 2000s New York. It was such an unpolished record but the right record.



And it was kinda same thing 10 months later when Bonnie and Clyde 03 and Made You Look debuted the same weekend on all the Rap shows. Then it just felt it wasnt a question



Good times

 

[feelosofer]

I have been listening to rap battles for 30 years. Never have I ever heard a blade that but as deep.

Ether still burns.