Ether is now a verb. Takeover is a foot note. Let that sink in.
Takeover was the best record but if you’re on the radio sounding like you’re about to cry does it really matter?

The truth is that Ether was surgical. As Irv Gotti said nobody cared about the Carmen shyt, women come and go and the whole one hot album every 10 year average line is garbage because I prefer Nas's work to Jay's by far in that period. Smarten up Nas, yet Jay eventually realized he had to update his content, mature and begun touching on topic Nas was already writing about as a 23 year old.
) but overall it was very surgical and precise and said everything about Nas' place in hip-hop at the time. I know Nas had to have been heated when he heard it.Until Nas clapped back
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Jay trying to sway people to not fukk wit Nas was cringe and sad as hell
"Can't y'all see that he's fake"
"This is with who ya place ya faith"
"But u can't give cred to anything dude says, same dude give u ice and u owe em some head"
"Won't break u a crumb off the little bit that makes"
"Every time it's a tragedy I'm the first one to help"
"Cuz a nigg wear a kufi it don't mean that he bright"
Jay was so blew that he tried the politician method "hey he's not your guy I'm your guy he's not who he's depicted to be"
Takeover was better
This is what it always comes back to.
”Takeover” was the best record, but often the beef is settled by the outcome.
Takeover>>>shether
more quotable
better beat
better overall song
no corny lyrics like ether
and coli quote takeover more than ether too… crazy
but that whole narrative that takeover is all facts is corny… i’ll admit
and miss me with that “this is revisionist history” talk…
takeover always been a smash
and will always be better
idc what nasir fans got to say![]()

Takeover ether both overrated
No idea why Jay z was crying over that weak ass diss