What was the deal with the Nas/50 beef?

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I was just listening to Too Hot by Nas and 50. Nas was also on the song Who U Rep With. And it got me to thinking, why did these guys end up beefing with each other after doing tracks with one another?

I believe it started with 50 Cent on Piggy Bank. Nas responded with MC Burial (Don't Body Yourself). It appears he also responded with some track called Spastic, however I don't think I've heard it and can't find it anywhere.

I don't get why 50 would diss Nas after Nas (a rap legend) went on your album on 2 tracks before you were really even well known. Was 50 just being an idiot and going after everyone?

50 Cent - Piggy Bank (2005)
Kelis said her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
Then Nas went and tattooed the bytch on his arm

Nas - Don't Body Yourself (2005)
You rhyme on stuff and claim I didn't sign y'all up
If I sign y'all I'm on dust
Ya we from the same hood but nikka what?!
When y'all was tryin to rap y'all was makin me proud
Man now you fukked up, down on your luck, runnin your mouth man
Why don't be a real man, say you need a lil help
And I might help your ass off the shelf
But noooo, you're bein disrespectful
Thinkin son so cool that he won't check you
Stand down, the king is home
I'm hearin wankstas talkin greasy
Whether broke or rich my friend
Nasir bring that career to an end
They say Jada defeated him
Joe to street for him
What's next? I guess it's for Nas to ether him
And ya wanna know why I don't got an answer nikkaz
Cause I truely understand these nikkaz
Scared of me so they talk about family members
Like I can't point out your grandma to nikkaz
Damn you was my man like crew dawg

Nas - Spastic (2005)
I observed this, short term nikka Curtis
His soul he let record execs purchase
They were nervous but now they're wordless
This bytch 50 I spit shyt that rips out his cervix
Truth is you only dropped one hot LP
Smell me? Now you nikkas wanna dead me
This is the tenth shell I'm inserting through ya dome
Sitting on the throne yet still I murk u wit the chrome
Homes I got gold and platinum, test your stamina
U homos gettin manicures, thug life ain't glamorous
You nikkas is phony, dissin everybody on Ja's roster
When you ain't hip hop nikka pop is your proper genre
Lames should change your name to The Temptations
Diss Nas you get faded, couldn't see me with LASIX
They say I'm givin em hell but this shyt is a hotter climate
Burnin internal, shell inferno nikka it's Nastradamus
You tried to rob but you could never dethrone the god
On tour wit Braveharts kissing my ass for cheese
Just like a rat, nikka please
Even then you never twisted trees
Told JMJ that Nas was your hero
Records sold was zero,

Nas - Queen Get the Money (2008)
nikkas is still hatin
talkin that nas done fell off with rhyming
he’d rather floss with diamonds
they pray “please god let him spit that ‘oozie in the army lining’
that ’shorty doo-wop rolling oowops in the park reclining’ ”
take twenty-seven mc’s put em in a line and they out of alignment
my assignment said she said retirement hiding behind 8 Mile and The Chronic
get rich but dies rhyming
this is high science
now add 23 more from queens to b’more
i’m over they heads like a bulimic on a seesaw
now thats 50 porch monkeys ate up at the same time





 

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Nas started fukking with Irv and em basically and 50 caught feelings. Nas replaced 50 on that J Lo joint (by Irv's choice) and 50 acted like it was the way it happened which bugged him.... but I think it was more that Nas was running round with Murder Inc which caused the tension.

He might have been acting over emotional or you might think it's understandable that if someone's team tries to kill you that you aint fukkin with no one who fukks with them.
 

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Nas started fukking with Irv and em basically and 50 caught feelings. Nas replaced 50 on that J Lo joint (by Irv's choice) and 50 acted like it was the way it happened which bugged him.... but I think it was more that Nas was running round with Murder Inc which caused the tension.

He might have been acting over emotional or you might think it's understandable that if someone's team tries to kill you that you aint fukkin with no one who fukks with them.
Oh yea I forgot about that JLo song.
Controversy ensued over the radio version and the album version. Epic Records decided to place Nas on the radio version due to his popularity at the time instead of 50 Cent. 50 Cent became angry at "former" friend Nas. Nas threatened him, stating: "So he's like a kid living in a hip-hop fantasy world. J.Lo is a friend of mine, if she wants to do a record, I'm doing a record with her [sic] 50 was like a little brother to me."[5] In response to 50 cent's constant slamming of the collaboration, Nas stated: "To sum it all up, 50 is still a new artist. I would say he's got a good five to six more albums before I can really respond to him. With my other battles, it was different. This is not really my thing right here."[6] 50 Cent held no hard feelings towards Lopez, but towards Nas only. According to Epic Records, the switch in artists made on the radio version was "purely business."

That spastic song is as real as the $2million beat nas bought from pastel pharrell
So it's not real? I hadn't heard of it before so idk.
 

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It started with 50 being an emotional bit h. That's where it ends oddly enough too
 
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1. Irv gets 50 taken off of J Lo song and Nas replaces 50(2002)
2. "Nas he love the kids, 50 on that killer shyt"(2003)
3. Nas disses 50 Cent at a central park concert(2004)
4. 50 Cent drops Piggy Bank and they throw shots at each other for the next several years ending with "Old 2003 Ferrari"(2005-2011)
5. They outgrow the beef, 50 Cent pays his restaurant bill and shouts him out in a few interviews(2012-13)
6.

:blessed:Peace:blessed:
 

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1. Irv gets 50 taken off of J Lo song and Nas replaces 50(2002)
2. "Nas he love the kids, 50 on that killer shyt"(2003)
3. Nas disses 50 Cent at a central park concert(2004)
4. 50 Cent drops Piggy Bank and they throw shots at each other for the next several years ending with "Old 2003 Ferrari"(2005-2011)
5. They outgrow the beef, 50 Cent pays his restaurant bill and shouts him out in a few interviews(2012-13)
6.

:blessed:Peace:blessed:


Basically what I was gonna type, other than the fact that he was actually going to sign to them nikkas once his deal was done, say what you want about 50's reaction to all that but when I look at it from his perspective it looks like he was pretty much in cahoots with nikkas that was trying to kill him financially and physically. Nas even hinted that he knew what was up in that jay/nas interview when they brought him up, that 50 was hurt about a particular incident. He indirectly helped them nikkas kick him while he was down.
 

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Nas kept it One hunnid by putting 50 in that Queens Story video. Nothing forced and no grudges, he just acknowledged 50's impact on the game.
 
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