Jay-Z Says New Nas LP in Good Hands

I hear jay and all that, working with nas....thats great for hip hop. But for some strange reason__ i'm getting the feeling that all this is gonna come back to bite nas on the ass. Don't get me wrong.... This could be a sincere jay z talking.... But that brooklyn dude has an ulterior motive__ i think. I just can't figure out what it is. Lets just hope im wrong.

Nas new lp is not in good hands. Jay-z just going get nas to bite some rhymes to put it on his cd. Big ups to nas

Yes i concur wit the first opinion. I dig both nas and jay, but this union has me a bit skecptical.

Oops skeptical

This may come to bite nas or haunt him, but we really don't know. Hopefully everything is good and everything will be in good terms. Peace

I think you are all wrong. Jay-z has proven to be a good presedent. And he makes money for his clients. I think the only thing that could go wrong for nas, is that sony isn't giving him his masters. I think its going to be a great thing. Have some faith.

I feel as though this union could backfire.plus i feel nas turned his back on his fans with this album because a majority of the album was supposed to be produced by primo.remember the scratch magazine cover.one!

You turn down 11 million dollars....

Yall may be right but i dont see how being on def jam with that much money in his budget behind his project being a bad move (business wise)..unless he tanks and doesnt sell to recoup the doe they front him. I wonder if kanye will produce a joint or two....cause i was feeling him over "we major"....i too much dont wanna here him with premire or the others he worked with before..i just dont wanna hear another illmatic...not that it wasnt tight. But dayem.

I think the problem is too many people like the guys posted the first few comments, all you guys are looking at how nas is gone get screwd if you keep talking like that ofcource der is gon be some bulklsh*t to happen, but if yall had a different perspective on things and was a lot more positive about it.....

...i always use to be one of the people who said if nas had the same beats as jay-z/rocafella/def jam people have he would go a million times platinum and be loved by everyone

Sounds like a good move to me what could go wrong?

What happened to the primo produced album?guess we shouldn't of believed the hype!!!dam a whole album by primo woulda been a classic

It all sounds good on paper (djphiz) but lets not forget how jay z and r kelly ended twice.... And we were all excited about that collabo as well. I have all reason to be skeptical..... Here is a man that split with his partner of 15 years (dame dash). So__ i'll wait til the outcome before i make judgement. 1!

sometimes a change can be to your advantage or disadvantage. Both jay and nas are respectively in the lead i believe the project is in good hands. I will even go as much as saying nas overall numbers will be good for this album but that first week sales will blow other record setting albums out of the water!!!! i'm thinking out the gate 2million copies easy.(my opinion)

Nas's album is in the best hands they could be in! ......and how fast some of you have lost respect for jay-z as an emcee & business man. I hear 'pink pu$$y walls cam' all over most of your comments. In my opinion, jay won that battle between nas and himself, and he'd definitely eat cam up alive in a battle no question! now his business sovvy is sooooo far over both their heads (cam & nas), i just don't know how you all can front on jay like that, when he was dropping hits when nas & cam wasn't, since the beginning of jay's career he has been putting out hits! trust me, nas ant no dummy, and he doesn't respect jay because he thinks he won against jay in a battle! think about it. And he obviously trusts jay's business moves, so why can't you all!!

I think nas won the battle.ether was the sht.thats all i have to say about this topic.

I belive that this new nas album will be crazy and a classic. Trust me im am one of nases biggest fans i got all of his albums from illmatic to street disciple. I think this would end up really good for nas and i wish him the best of luck. Bravehearts !!!!!!!!!!!!

Break bred brethren!!!!

I also have to agree and say that nas won the battle, but they are my two top favorites, you really cant put one before the other because of styles. I listen to nas when i wanna zone out and reflect, its like watching a movie and no album did it better than illmatic!!!! i listen to jay when i am getting dressed getting ready to go out and party, or when i am involved in a hustle, or dealing with some wild ass female of some sort. But they are both those cats that are like me, they remind me of that player sitting in that ol skool poolroom on st. Marks ave. In brooklyn, chilling like ol skool cats who been there and no the game, skooling shorties listening to oldies all day. Anyway i still have to say they will be alright, the record business is politics, and we have to say that nas is better with def jam for production reasons. It would hurt jay's stature to F*ck nas over, reason being is because he would turn away so many fans and he wouldn't want to do that, because you know if nas was to do some ol "prince" sh*t, it would deter people from wanting to buy from jay again because he would be a shady dealer. Jay is not on it like that, he is trying to wheel and deal to work nas out of sony because they haven't done sh*t for nas since he has been there. I have been a nas fan since "live at the barbecue" and deep down inside we want nas to go back to the "nasty nas" days, but on some new and improved sh*t. The only thing wrong with nas was his production, a lot of his beats get "morbid and boring"

Which leads to "depressing lyrics" and "depressing music" but when we heard "we major" you felt life, when you heard "nas is like"you felt life, when you heard "take a picture" you were banging your head. Nas is good going to def jam, end of story!!!!!!!!!laurelton queenz stand up!!!!!!!!! peace

Oh and it will be (dj premier, kanye, just blaze and any other up and coming producers out there) doing the album, personally i would get "cool and dre" also.

We know this album is gonna be good as jay said this is nas' album and his artist vision, so i reckon it'll sound like the other nas albums but with much better beats.

I think that nas won the battle too....but when i analyze the lyrics..nas was saying jokes...like your lips big, or you look like j j evans, and jay was saying all factual shyt...like your albums aint sellin yadda yadda. To me thats like me telling someone "yeah your moms is on crack" and he comes back and says "yeah you look like elmo" and cats start laughing cause elmo look funny as hell, but fa'reel you won when it came to whats funny...but your moms is still on crack. Plus jay screwed up and went first with like a verse...and nas came back with a mad longggg song where the wholleeeeeee thang was about jay. So jay screwed up.

F*ck jay n nas. Ying yang twins are so much more skillful than these bums. (((((((im joking))))))) so i dont want to come on hear i see that i got cursed out .lmao it jus a joke.

Hey i thimk jay will help nas a great deal i man nas sh*t was hot now he got some true heat behind him some real heavy hitters nas is about to release some real serious sh*t and i think all the true fans who listen to real lyrics and know what is real and what is bullsh*t will love that sh*t i cant wait to see the work of nas on this one the not even ready for it yet

It can't come back to haunt nas, even if it did, at least nas would have the best album of his career thanks to jay. Jay, i believe, is a stand up guy who would only screw nas over if nas got outta line, that n*gga needs to follow president carter's moves so he can step his game up. "it's the roc you bastards !!!"

Call me crazy, but i actuallt think that this union is going to work, nas ablum will sell well over 3 million, just off the strengh of his signing with jay, and like jay said "you only can have a partnership"you cant sign an artist of nas stature, i truely feel that there is a huge amount of respect between these two, nas has bscome jay's primary asset, besides kanye, nas is the biggest thing on the label, you herd it here frist, this upcoming album will be his best ever, a classic, and he will go tripple platinum.

Nas is gonna kill it on this album, i have to agree it's gonna be his biggest, although anythings possible, i just have a feelin' in my gut that this is hugde and it's like nas is in his right mind and everthings in place, we just gotta sit back and watch it unfold i guess....personaly i'm excited as hell, can't wait for that sh*t....1

Kalliope4eva, i agree with what u said; but that's why i think jay won the battle. Because jay was telling the truth about nas! while nas was just telling jokes! jay-z lyrics are more mundane & truthful, true to reality! he raps about sh*t he lived through, sh*t that personifies our times! that's why i call jay the curtis mayfeild of hip hop! but if you a toy n*gga, i guess its easy for you to zone out to some child like sh*t! i feel jay more, because my life is serious, aways have been; i can't stand rappers who talk sh*t that's not real!

Jayz's a businessman yall. He wants to make dough. I'm pretty sure the entire beef was for dough, and now the reunion is for dough. Nas is the best lyricist in the mainstream rap scene right now, and with jay's influence behind him he's only gonna get better beats and more promotion. I think it will work out for both sides.

Dead or alive, nas is the best to ever hold the mic. A lot of cats like to be front runners and followers, you mimic what ya hear others say. Nas has never sold out, never turned commercial. He spits it how he sees it. Kalli and lie, i know it hurts but, you should go back and relive ether. "in 88 you was getting chased in your buildin, callin my crib and i didn't even give the numbers" and "ya manuscipt just sounds stupid when krs already made an album called blueprint" those are just two lines off the top of my head. Of course he threw in the jokes, what betters way to diss a n*gga? what did jay do??? sleep with a female dog and try to say that illmatic was nas's only good album? yall forget about "it waswritten" where he wrote a song from the point of view of a gun? "i am"? "the firm"? don't get me wrong i love "godson" with "made you look" and "i can" any mc who put out a long like "i can" can't be fake. Nas will continue to drop hot albums, the only difference will be in the promotion, then pretty soon your friends will start talking, then you'll start talkin, and then we'll all be sayin the same thing. Jay said it on mtv, "you can't sign an artist of nas's stature, you can only partner with him"

The claboration is going to be great, but have you guys look passed what nas vowed against- he saod wouldn't work with jay-z? also money is money you guys say its great for them to be working together (don't get me wrong i feel the album is going to be fiyah it has to be two greats are putting their minds into unification mode), but its for money, how can either one of them work together if they have underlying beef or no respect for how they approach the game in the past? the big picture seems to look like two of the greatest rappers are only coming together for money- is that respectable? yea the "beef" is squashed, but the past is the past it- if neither one have regrets for what they said about one another in the past, the this album is a little shallow- their seeing green more than their values.

So on that song with genuine "you owe me" (like jigga said "is it black gurl lost or shorty owe me for ice?)where he was saying pay me back like you owe your rent, pay me back when you shake it like that...and in the video nas was dayem dancing and err'thang...or when he teamed up with no other than puffy on that hate me now video.....or maybe when he was doing all that fronting like he was gonna sign with murda inc??? (even did a video with them and then he asks why 50 blitzed his azz)...so you asked when the cat sold out? depends on who he sold out. I'll say when didnt he sell out..maybe he sold out az by just stone walling him like he aint give him his best song on that illmatic (in my opinion "lyfes a bytch")...or maybe when he killed his qb brethern (mobb deep) on some ole foul cat shyt when them boys had nas back like a spine....trust me i aint triping about tha whole thang and they are so past that beef (supposedly) i just wanted to answer your question itwaswritten....and that female dog had his seed ...shyt and im a nas fan dawg but real is real....all the rappers are wishy washy when it comes to keeping it real...but i feel your point tho'.

That's what i was thinkin flames

Yo that album is going to be so hot, i'm glad they both acting like the grown men they are and settled what was foolishness that's what hip hop is all about getting together and rockin the crowd but what jay-z and nas about to do "rockin the crowd" aint the words for it they about make history right here i really feel like this is going to be a classic matter of fact ya'll going to think i'm crazy but i think this might be better than illmatic on the real cause think about it everybody know jay going to get them crazy hot beats and with nas make you think lyrics yo it's going be hot but yo i'ma holla at ya later one.

I know, think and hope this will work for hip-hop's sake. One

Shit it needs too- i cant take the lean wit it-rock wit it- or the laffy taffy any more-game is too flooded with wack sh*t!

It sure the F*ck is, the only time i like to hear that laffy taffy, or that lean and rock wit it, is when im in the club, other than that i dont care about that bullsh*t, but the game needs garbage music like that because it helps us appreciate the real music but like cense said the game is definitly flooded with wack sh*t! thats why i really belive that this upcoming nas ablum will be the best ablum of 06 and beyond.

Man c'mon dawg yall still on the reigon hating tip dawg....i love reading eric's opinion and yours too cense..im feeling yall digging the art (hip hop) but i got to disagree man, for every laffy taffy they got juelz making shyt like "oh yes"...or black rob with that stoopid anthem he had "hes black rob he dont play...yadda yadda garbage"....yall act like the east aint slipping too. To my knowledge were on that strip club/ house party music thang where tha' dj plays some shyt and err'body comes out dancing..but it was aiight when ll was on some ya jinggling baby, go head baby tip...or jay just makes some club shyt like 2 in tha morning yadda yadda...or when nas makes oochie wally...yall loving that..were those not club songs? hip hop is hip hop...club songs are always gonna be there...its just our history..sensless songs like all you can eat by the fat boys....or my adidas (selling something) are good, but when nelly makes air force ones , or franchise boys make white tees...yall hate on it and call it garbage?? man, stop being one sided.

Yall quick to point out laffy taffy...when cam' puts out a song called girls, cash, cars....and he just says that over and over again in...thats the hook? or when someone like kanye just rapes history of all the good songs...samples them and says ...yeah i made this..but when allllll the super producers from the south who "dont sample" timbaland, pharell, mannie fresh, dj trumph (spelled wrong but the cat responsible for all ti's bangers), david banner dont sample at alllllll but yall act like we aint killing the game. Being from the south and making tracks and spitting too i dont look for respect from any up north cat....but i aint looking for yall hate either.

Its just an opinion and i agree with most of it being garbage, but just dont state it like its a fact....like we saturating the game.

There is always going to be real hip hop and commercial hip hop. For the simple reason there is the real hip hop thinker, and then there is the general public, who just likes whats hot at the time. But no region is saturating the game more than the other. As a matter of fact, the east got to much of them trying to come out. They almost like roaches, they are so annoying.

I love hip hop and ive dipped into err'body from the heiros with del...to nelly....i phucks with the cats thats under tha underground...and i phucks with tha' suits (jigga). Hip hop is plentiful and their enuff to satisfy err'body right now theirs the crunk south (lil jon and pastor troy nem) then the lyricist south (t i , lil wayne, bun b, andre 3000, lil brother), the gangsta south (jeezy, boyz n' da hood, scarface), pimps (eightball and mjg, pimp c) then we have our different sounds...screwed, bounce, crunk, bass, that finger snap shyt d4l on...,we have it all. But ppl bring it like we garbage down here...man, we elevating tha game...grab ya cups and drank or step and starve like them wu tang cats trying to bring it back to 94...thats why ghostface lame to me...why is he crying? i love 50's music cause east coast cats hate on him but he shows love to err'body....south, east, west it dont matter. And it might be about green...but if your in the game and it aint about green then go to a poetry club and rhyme for free. Or just put out bootlegs then.

Lol. Im done.

I just hope that the actual album lives up to the incredible amount of hype that its getting. I'm a big nas fan and i hope that this album is good

Come kalliope no matter how bad the commerical sh*t is on the east(and its real terrible)- we all know that songs like laffy taffy is an embarassment you kno that truthfully speakin.-not to play the south-cuz theres real hiphop down there-but come on duke.....

Lol. Aiight imma give you that..i laugh at it err'time i hear the video...but when i hear whistle song i think the same thing. ....im not saying those songs are trash tho...they just arent what i listen to...like i was saying i dont hear "any" down south artist calling their music hip hop...besides wayne because he wants to be considered the greatest....but i dont think d4l made laffy taffy with the source, rap pages, or hip hop heads in mynd....do you? but juelz is a hip hop artist....cam' is hip hop artist, ghostface is a hip hop artist lmao...tush feat. Missy??? or cam' putting out "push it"? those are serious joints? we just put hip hop up there as the zenith....the tip of the iceburg....but the bottom half is always gonna be more wider in width....period, cant err'body do it big like......big. Or pac...nothing is like it was, their arent anymore kings, malcoms, garveys etc. Its just different. Lol. **snappin fingaz** lean wit it, rock wit it**, man i feel you bruh..i just dont like when some act like east aint laying eggs too.

See...opps.

Your gonna tell me your in the club whistling when juelz comes on...or your like..."oh yes"....man, at least laffy taffy is original. How are you gonna take a song from the 60's and frankenstein it up and spit over it like that....tasteless hip hop. We as producers have a responsibility to other who came before us...just dont slay another persons song when you sample it. But ghost will rap over your shyt with the werds still in it. C'mon man, i know we used to rap over disco beat breaks but dayem dawg this is 2006.

I aint dissing the south but songs like laffy taffy is killing hip hop and i'm really getting tired of hearing these cornball dudes on the radio that wistle song was some creative stuff come on when have you ever heard a beat wistling and for juelz to be able to rap over that i think he the only one who could ever do that the beat was strictly made for him so juelz get nothing but props for that i don't know how somebody could say laffy taffy wasn't sound orginal when the beats on the other hits sound just alike come on dog yo i feel like the south is slippin and with this album nas is about to come out with is going to pronounce the east right back on the top hip hop started in the east if it ends (which i think is going to be never) that is where it is going to be and i trully believe the south stop being hip hop when andrea started singing i think outkast, the dungen family, and scarface(his crew) was the only true hip hop heads in the south to me anywayz

Wake up...down here we dont care what new york thinks about our music...thats what yall do..yall hate....period..on others, and each other. Nobody down south shouts out new york or make music for up north cats....we aint worrying about what yall think is real hip hop...nas been making real hip hop and the east still crumbled..even with jay making hits...yall even hate on jay. Man, if we dont sell up there who cares...the rest of the world is feeling it.

Do you think down south cats make music thinking "dayem i hope they like this in new york"mentality....man please...yall keep waiting for somebody to save real hip hop.

Why wes cant get alongs .lol

Kalli, you speak out both sides of ya mouth all to often. It f*ckin hard to follow you. You say one thing, then flip it in your next sentence. You say all this stuff, then throw in that you feel my point? anyways, i'm not sure how everyone got off topic, but i got no problem with the south. It's about time that they got some recognition. Honestly, i aint feelin the whole rap game right now. It's a lot of dance tunes,and not enough lyrical assassin type sh*t. Not enough tracks with good knock out punch lines and deadly beats. The type of sh*t the mobb used to come out with, till they sold out on that pop music sh*t. Nas's choice to sign with def jam was a great move. He shocked the hip hop world again. How many artists you know has the support of two different record labels? now that sh*t sez something about nas's level of talent. I wont be surprised to see his face back up on billboards in time square ("i am") with all the publicity he should get. Based on the tracks i've heard him on lately, there's no stopping him. Let's put an end to this nonsense and remember this day as it's "death anniversary". 1

Naah....understand me...i love all hip hop, what im saying is....why say that the south aint making good hip hop when i dont think that they are trying to make hip hop music....its different. Crunk, bounce, bass, some street, but its totally different than what they do up north. I dont try to put them on the same shelf...im not gonna compare b.g. To cam'ron...they are all different. Its no doubt new york is the birthplace fo hip hop and all, but its like new york got the mad big head now...they think that everything they dont consider hot aint hot cause they say it aint. Or it aint hip hop unless they (critics, disgruntal non selling artist)say its hip hop....and as far as me talking out the side of my mouth, maybe your salty cause i said what i said about nas, but i was just saying what tha' cat did that the whole "hip hop" world turns a blynd eye to....you said nas didnt ever sell out i just stated that he did that shyt with murda inc, dissed his fam mobb deep, and other thangs..but its all cool tho.

I remember when ny hated la.now yall crips & bloods.whistle song is garbage!i feel like new yorkers(some)"hate"on everbody because rap started there.thanks but,we dont owe yall anymore.east coast dudes use our southern slang and everthing ya heard me.trash rap is universal.same topics, different tracks.

Plus,we teach yall how to hustle.we do it from the trunks of cars.while some wait to be signed to labels that take their money.props to the bay area too.we hustle.

I got love for hiphop period, wether it be east west south, or midwest, if it's good, i dig it to the fullest, if it's wack then it's just wack, for instance, im from chicago, and everyone knows that chicago dosent have a lot of good rap music, with the eception of common, kanye, twista , and maybe lupe, but other than that we dont got sh*t going on, and i'll be the frist to say it, and the artist that i've mentioned, are like aquired taste, somthing like liver, some people love liver, some people dont, the point is no matter where your from, if it's good music, i support it to the fullest.

But for the record, some of my favorite artist are from the south, although im from chi town, i was actually born in greenwood miss, so im kinda connected to south music, outkast, goodie mobb, scarface, eightball and mjg etc.... I came up on that sh*t, and on the east it was nas, biggie, jigga, de la soul, the roots, das efx,etc.... But on the low, new york is kinda overrated, (no disrespect intended) but you cats on the east think that new york got sh*t on lock, when the truth is (like kalliope4eva said) new york music is really slipping, besides jigga,nas,and 50, who do you all got, the rest is trash, but i love new york rap my all time favorites are from the east (biggie jay z and nas) and pac but he is from the west, but then again he was born in new york.

Yup pac sho was born here and got roots here....... But seriously new york suck ass these days...... (we was never overrated)but back in the days especially the 90s it was beautiful. U had boot camp, camp lo, jeru, gang starr, pete rock &cl, main source, m.o.p, wu tang, tribe, de la(esp wen comm was rocking wit the native toungues) ah man), jungle, l.o.n.s, def & hit squads, ultra magnetic, mic geronimo, jay, big, & nas,and otherse on were overrated-shame on you eric lol... But the south was hittin too......out kast, mad skills, scarface(classic sh*t) devin the dude, p and them, cash money and others-also the west had classic sh*t- dre, dogg pound, quick, cube, tha alcoholiks, souls of mischief, pharcyde, jarassic 5, del, the funky homosaphien, and others...so it made for good music all the way round.

Man listen..... Bloods in crips in ny is the dumbest thing in the werld to me. Ny on some following sh*t theres no real voice sh*t sickens me. F*ck ny opinion- ny has a rep of hating on thier own artist- but not all of us aint like that- i spread love-and if i like the music-then i support it whether from the bay-or to the ole miss.....back in the days i remembered-supreme team, deceps, lo lifes, lost boyz, brooklyns most wanted, r.n.s, and others. These were real clicks who turn the city up side down. The city was a mad house in the 70s and 80s-but now u got sh*t set, fat joe leanin back, and 50 -please all u out there in cyber space -dont judge my city by our rappers-or dumb ass yungins.smh i miss my ole city.......

Its obvious both jay n nas fans cant cope with the union of both legends. But, lets not jump the gun and say its not gonna work b/w them. Personally i feel nas will bring out the the old mental creativity that designed illmatic, hopefully. In my opinion sparked by jays motivation to put ny where it should be. Nothing against other states but all ears should be focused on good music and not the kindergarten sh*t we been hearing

First off jay won the battle versus nas what are you smoking. Jay was hurt from the battle. The battle was even til the last verse of ether. Ying yang twins betterthan nas and jay z do they even rap but anyway thats your opinion although there are millions who would disagree with you. As far as the greatest mc ever it is rakim his illiest rhyme i put my d*ck in your ear and f*ck what you heard. Along with so many . Get his follow the leader album. Listen to follow the leader lyrics of fury. I f thats outdated get his 18th letter if thats outdated listen to him on the streets of ny track with him and nas on the same track nas used his same lines from illmatic. Rakim is the only mc to never be publically called out why is that. But i will respect you saying nas is the greatest because nas is a s close to the r as possible. As far as jay and nas i think its a great idea i just wish hope primo is doin some tracks. I heard he was getting the same producers he used for illmatic can anyone confirm or deny that rumor please. Nas and r two of the sickest flows to grace the mike. And dont sleep on jigga the difference between the three is jayz never writes down his lyrics they go off the top of his head which is what freestylin really is

Nas is a different person now. He could never bring back that illmatic feeling.nas' ether was better.i like both of the artist.jigga more.but nas took it with ether.nothing against new york,but yall are the "hip hop mecca".whats the excuse for cam and his crew and other dudes i cant even think of.but hey,they have a fan base.so does yin yang.yall blame it on hammer and vanilla ice.man, that was damn near 20 years ago.get it together at home before you speak on other states.oh, i forgot,do yall really like memphis bleek?anyways, i hear people dis hammer.but,what he did then,rappers are doing nowmercials etc.at least he went broke by giving to others in his community.

Commercials my bad

I'd never use geography as a reason to start dissin n*ggas. That sh*t is just another way to destroy and divide 1 humanity. That don't mean i like everybody, most of yall p*ss me off, no matter where ya from. I read some of this sh*t and your stereotypin new yorkers and i'm thinkin "hey, ya must mean me", so then... F*ck you. North, south, east, west it's all just music. Like kalli was sayin, every cluster makes music with a sound that's unique to that area. Not everyones gonna be feelin it, but when does everybody agree? back to kalli, nah, i don't think so. Sorry, had an ll flashback. Nas was cool with murda inc, but after wat happened to them, i'm glad he didn't sign anything over there! also, when you got shady characters runnin around, you need to shake sh*t up, or say f*ck it, then "destroy and rebuild". When i slide in the stillmatic cd, i'm not usually bumpin ether, it's one mic that's got me repeatin words at the top of my lungs. Love that track, love that n*gga's talent. 1

"nothing against other states, but all ears should be focused on good music...." to me, thats saying new yorker's ears are already focused and other states aren't.that's bullsht.everything that comes from there is not tight.in fact, the first wack rappers had to be from ny.ya know,i can say that everything about black music and culture began in the south.i mean,those djays would use an entire james brown instrumental back then.he's from the south.it took a whole black nation to create hip hop,not just 1 city.it's a mixture of blues,jazz and soul music.u call it a diss,i call it the truth.

It seems to me that some of yall aren't happy unless ny is on top of the rap game.you gotta pass the mic sometimes.thats why i miss biggie.he loved brooklyn,but he also loved the south, and the west.i think ny is right where it should be.pac & big...greatest of all time.

Gotta love our culture...we have created every genre of music besides, what country and classic?? or maybe techno. R and b...no doubt, rock no doubt chuck berry, little richard and other trailblazers did it, jazz no diggity doubt, blues no question, pop wacko jacko did his thang thang back in the day and paved the way for the ushers, justin timberlakes, chris browns (and perverts like r kelly ), we even started boy bands with new edition and the jackson 5 and all. I love our music..i want all music awards to officially be called "natties" after nat turner...lol.

Naah, im tripping....satchmos....louis armstrong crunk it up for us...big tyme.

Hell yeah!now i know what it means, to miss new orleans.

Lmao @ blue....

Cense loves nyc to death, but i still show love to the south and west-i give yall props-im sayin not every body in ny is on the ass hole sh*t.some of us do spread love, and it is the souths time to shine-rock on!

Well cam is trash. Dont get it twisted mr blue. You know why folks hate ny? they hate ny because ny hates and will not play trash. There are alot of mcs from other states who came in with whack sh*t and got the thumbs down. People couldnt check their egos and admit their sh*t was whack so they hated on nyc. But at the same token it dont matter where you from if you whack you aint gettin no play ny wont play a ny artist if they aint feelin them. Other states hate on ny artists whether they are hot or not thats the differences. Then they play those whack ass albums on their stations. Some cats keep it consistent like luda( he really stepped up his game), outkast, scarface and a few other cats, snoop is fallin off i mean damn. The point is i and every new yorker feels this way whether its sports , radio, any form of entertainment if you are hot you get noticed if you are whack well.... Rather than artists hate or get mad at ny how about respecting the fact that we are the mecca meaning we started this and most of us wants real hip hop. And we need to address the real problem i reiterate in many rooms, untilwe get our own record labels brothers will not be able to have their input on how their albums sound the companys owned by the man find these starvin artists use them suck them till they are dry and spit them out to find the new artist. Look at nas columbia almost killed his career i am proud of jay for swallowing his pride and helping to revive his career

Nas is serius

But hey vanilla ice greatest of all time lol hell no never that he sucks

Yall lucky that the site lost my first statement, but i am going to cut in short, as far as the south giving birth to jazz, blues and so on that is very true!! we cant tell you how blues is suppose to be, how the hell can we tell somebody from the south about blues, you all would look at us crazy!!! same thing goes for hip hop!!and on top of that, the harlem renaissance was at the top position as far as black culture, art(gordon parks r.i.p.), poetry (langston hughes), authors(james baldwin, arna bontemps, chuck stones), music(duke ellington, john coltrane, ella fitzgerald, sarah vaughn, dizzy gillespie) and still to this day most top black actors (denzel washington, wesley snipes, larry fishburne, angela bassett, vanessa williams both of them and many more) i mean F*ck it entertainment is our thing so if you wanna ride on it we can!!!! harlem was a black mecca, pan africanism, first real black nationalist movement, garveyism, malcolm x and his movement he loved harlem, nyc was home to brother malcolm, john henrik clarke, first black newspaper "the amsterdam news" i mean what are you trying to say? bumpy johnson first real black established gangsta ever!! where? harlem!!!! and yes a lot of these people i mentioned came from the south, but they never wanted to claim it just like plenty of blacks in any northern area came from the south, but we split because the ones that wanted to advance left and the ones that wanted to stay with the oppressor stayed and suffered. Meanwhile harlem was building w

Building with black businesses and so forth, and in the south everytime they built a city it was destroyed by their white neighbors!!!remember rosewood!!why do you think there are large numbers of blacks elsewhere, they left, and yes we are coming back to the south for the property!!! you all had it and we are coming to do something with it!!

And please dont get it twisted, i know we have the big head at times, and that is because we are big brother to this game, so please forgive us, but as far as hustle goes, who said you all taught us how to hustle are you smoking, you all heard of puffy selling out of the trunk of his car at howard university along with other cats in the d.c. Area making money. We had it poppin way before then especially in the drug game, and you can check every documentary, from new york to d.c. Brothers been hustling, you all are just coming up so dont get all high and mighty yet. I came down every year to the south since a kid and live here now, so i know, i've seen it, cant nobody piss on me and tell me its raining!!!

I love the south but yall are not going to disrespect my hometown like that!!true there are maybe four versions of southern rap, same as gangsta, conscious, party, reggae(rockers) in nyc. So it is all the same, you all can get criticized just like we can, how many times do we have to emphasize we get down with a lot of artist in the south, but if you want somebody to kiss your ass, F*ck that!!!!!!!

On top of that we show love to jeezy, young buck, lil john, lil wayne, t.i. All get major love at home and we open up our arms to embrace and now you all are trying to say we dont show any love cause we said somebody is wack in the south!!!!thats bullsh*t!!!

People left the south because they didn't want to be oppressed any longer.but what ever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.you never have to emphasize ever again.i really dont think people care how yall feel anymore.we do it our way now.we dont expect anything from yall.talk about oppression, its a 50% unemployment rate for black men in new york.thats why yall coming back home.who doesn't claim the south?all those artist you named love to talk about their southern roots.they are all from the south.rosewood happened many years ago.that was a different time for all blacks.but in 2006 can yall walk through bensonhurst yet?can yall pull out yall wallets without getting shot by cops.we run the new south.yall must have heard it was safe to come back.i like new york, for the record,but yall talk crazy sometimes.dont kiss ass,we'll lose respect for you.there comes a time when you and your "big brother"are both grown men.did puffy start a label by hustling out his trunk?i think he just threw parties.

Dayem big o.....i find it hard to kiss azz when were looking eye to eye......kill that playa...i cant even let you go that route dawg. You dont have to take, at least what "i" say as a sneak diss dawg...i feel what your saying tho. Holla back.

Only 1 of the 5 dudes you mentioned i fcks with.3 of them i guess" jay z" says are cool.what a coincidence.if yall dont like wack sht ,what do you call lil jon?there's alot of wack rappers in the south,but like i said earlier,how dare the" big brothers "of this game contribute to the same wackness?don't answer that.its hammer & vanilla ice's fault.ice cube has been tight since day 1.why did yall make him go off on yall?in a lil while the busses will pass yall by just like the cabse on back home fellas.

First off cube aint as hot as he used to be second we did nothing cube got his love from ny and stabbed us in the back. Lets not compare hate crimes in ny to texas and the south can you say jasper but anyway o thats why you my n*gga you said all i wanted to say there is nothing left. And yall dont care how we feel because yall cant handle the truth ny is to hiphop the same way jazz is to the south. All that sh*t yall doin now we did already the gold teeth and the chains even your style of flow. Yall are alright but and in one of these forums someone critcized kanyes music yall get on him for samplin even though he is not from ny his beats are better than alot of those lame beats in da south although i never heard a jermaine dupri beat i didnt like, there are a couple of southerners who hold it down but because folks dont care about the craft no more sh*t isi gettin watered down and commercial. You would be surprised how many studio gangstas there are.

New orleans has senior citizens with gold teeth.do your research on that.what did yall start exactly?new orleans been puttin it down since day 1.i know what you mean about the craft.new orleans is nothing like the rest of the south.in fact we are often mistaken for new yorkers.most of these dudes are studio g's.new orleans got everybody wearing platinum jewlery.hip hop was based on sampling so i got no problem with kanye.the same thing happening with cube is what yall are talking about.real heads dont get played because of watered down sht.we all started off in the south before some of us ran to the north. Remember that.we made hip hop beats in afrika.do you think big beats didn't come around again until 1970 sumthin' in the bronx?yall were known for it because of blondie.we had block partys,we stayed fly we had gold teeth and chains,cowhide belts, grafitti etc.that was our culture also.hate crimes are nation wide.so, who said they left the south to escape that.blondie messed up hip hop,who let her in?yall feel like yall feel,i feel like i feel.but,all traditions come from the south.embrace your roots.that the whole truth!

But i'm not even trying to diss,let alone sneak diss.what i'm speaking is the truth.ask an older head,they'll tell you.

No you arenot im talkin about the gold teeth see just ices kool and deadly cover. First off second. We started hip hop first of all when rundmc came out yall was hatin yall didnt even know who they were i should know i used to front like i was cool j to mack the honies in the south ( yeah i know thats lame game but hell it worked. Give credit we started it and any rap artist will tell you it started in the south however new orleans been quiet since master p which leads me to my other point we started this some cats from the south are doin it up. I cant talk about scarface enough he is my favorite. I cried when doc wrecked his voice he was sick i still got his first album. Luda is sick as well but make no mistake whether youyou are from nyc , chi, texas, atl new orleans if you are whack you are whack period end of story. All i am saying is give credit where credit is due yall aint embrace rap til run dmc however i bopped my head to mystikal and silk da shocker and master p. Yall are sneak dissin but its ok. Every one has its season ny took a big hit when biggie went down. The problem with hip hop is that the younger generation wasnt taught to respect the veterans. Im not just talkin nyc these young gunners aint tryin to hear about peace and tight lyrics if it aint shake ya ass or get that paper or cap dat ass they dont wanna hear it so this music has taken a different path. I bet you if i get about two muscle bound dudes spend six months in the joint get warrants and get shot i will go platinum e

1st who is "yall", 2nd i didnt know hip hop started with run dmc 3rd who hates on run dmc??? 4th yeah its lame to pretend to be someone your not. 5th if credit for starting hip hop is what you wanted that was years ago playboy. 6th new orleans been quiet since master p??? dayem..i dont know where the hell you been.before the b.g. Hit tha scene yall didnt know what a phucking chopper was, what bling bling was, what stunting was, yall wasnt even rocking them huge ear rings till yall got on the birdman dyck..7th yeah the south doing it now, and we was doing it back then too but now were gitting our nationwide shyne on. 8th dont ever worry about me sneak dissing dawg...if i wanna direct something at you...you'll know.

All these off brand cats biting our style from new orleans...from white tees with ree's (reebok), gold fronts (and i dont mean one or two, like blue informed you we have cats 70 yrs old with 10 golds in their mouth ), stunting....baby comes out saying how many cars he has and all the jewels he has, next thing you see fat joe lame azz, and cam'ron calls someone a swagger jacker?. That cat looks like baby way back when with the gucci taylor made suits and furry coats. Since mannie broke ties with cash money all these off brand cats want our sound now. And on the low i'll go as far as saying lil wayne would kill anyone of yall heralded wannabee battle rhymers. Check tha song on this site matter of fact i get busy.....

Lil wayne- i gets busy, check the track and get back at me when you fix ya face.

Tell em bout gold teeth too dog. I hear what your saying(lendaman) and i like just ice, but new orleans been wearing gold teeth forever.that cool j sht might have worked on a girl but thats it.if you think we been quiet since master p,you must not know who's from the n.o.what is sneak dissin?i know what it sounds like it means, but i'm not in a secret room. I'm letting you see word for word what i think.do you think we were in overalls while nyc was doing whatever yall were doing? why do you think everyone related to "the message"?it was an urban thing and that's universal.but what about blondie?you can blame her, or ya man fab 5 freddy.that was the beginning of the end of"true"street music,right?

I believe yall got some love for the south, but yall dont realize it would be no you without us.

The south does not have the same style that ny rappers have. Ny rappers don't have the same style that as the west coast. All we need now is for the midwest states to stand up and we'll really get this forum started. "yo, yo, the midwest up in here too word yo", whatever. It all depends on wat you want to hear. All yall want to talk about is who's jackin from who. No idea is orignal. You take what you hear and make it your own. Not to copy or plagiarize, but to build upon. Now for "mrblue", you seem to take personal credit for your so called southern innovations. I read your comment bout "teachin yall how to hustle" when your first wrote it, but i simply disregarded it. Some sh*t you just gotta skip over, but you kept runnin your mouth. Since you runnin the south now, do me a favor and take down some of them confederate flags still flyin over the governmental buildings down there. That sh*ts just stupid.

By the way, lil wayne is bullsh*t, but i guess yall already know that.

No rap didnt start with run dmc try sugar hill gang i said yall didnt check it til rundmc who is the treacherous three do you know but anyway they may be hittin in no but not tooo much in nybut let me let you know i miss the no limit soldiers they were tight. You see hip hop is whack now we gotta run into the five borughs of nyc, cross on down through ga and no skip over to chi and other places the n run to cali and end the bs and i never said no wasnt hittin sh*t i went to southern where the women are like oh my fu**in goodness hot i got alot of love for the south those who are real but the fake ass n*ggas blahhh i vomit on you

Itwaswritten i rep new orleans. No rebel flags here buddy.you should tell lil jon and them that sht.i never said i run the south.i said we run the south "we" know who "we"are.you just need to thank your lucky stars for kanye.my city is very original.ask anyone."we" continue to put the rest of the world on game.midwest?chicago=new york jr. St.louis=nelly.need i say more. For anyone else i offended,it was self defense.

Peace to lendaman.just a friendly debate dog.kinda like back in the days.

Treacherous 3 was that group mo dee was in,right?now who left the gate open, and let deborah harry exploit the art form way back then.how did yall feel about that.

I remember coming down here to alabama, been to georgia plenty of times to see my cousins, been to south carolina, and tennessee and nobody i knew wore nor had the flyest sh*t that i had on. All i used to here was "damn, where did you get that, when you go home can you send me some, can i get a mixtape"lmao!!!!! on top of that yeah the white tee thing came from california originally, and what senior citizen doesn't rock gold teeth, damn my grandma had one. Of course all of our roots come from the south, but like i said we left for advantage, and we got that, yes the same hand oppresses us, up there it was more financial than, physical, we have our share of racial confrontation but no were know where near what the south had to deal with. But blue!! we are happy for the south, but everybody from the south aint hot!! now i dont have alot of cd's of people from nyc, just because they come from there doesnt mean i support them, and you all have reasons to diss who you wanna dis, a majority of the time i agree with the statements, but the heat is on because i come from nyc!! the way we rock our clothes, ya know lil wayne and them go shopping up there like crazy!!!you gotta admit that, but you probably dont wanna!!! and remember slick rick, and the symphony video, and as far as style goes look at the futuristic sh*t that az,rich porter and alpo were rockin back in like 85-86, louis vuitton seats in a bmw, new york always been fly!!!!how old are you, because everyone know's that, like i said take it bac

Yo kalliope4eva, my bad but i am sensitive about my city!! but we got some wack mc's well not mc's but rappers out there, they are everywhere, one thing i definitely have to agree with though is we do bootleg like crazy, and it doesn't put any money in the artist pocket of your choice, leaving him to get dropped from the label. Everybody hustles way to hard in the city, it is dog eat dog in ny. The city will work you out for real, and a lot of people cant handle the pressure it brings!!that is why my cd collection is raw!!!!!i got nothing but straight fresh out of the store cd's because every little bit helps the artist, at least if you wanna see them again!!lmao!!! peace!!mr.blue i just had to vent my side 1!!!

I'll be the first to tell everbody from the south aint tight.in fact i never said they were.i also noticed in your travels through the south, you didn't stop in the 504.its totally different from the rest of the south.we rocked ballys,gucci,mcm,louis,and all that in the 80's.as far as fashion the n.o. Is right there with ny.thats a fact i'm 29 so, i was there.and i bet your grandma is from the south.but so are most grandmas up there.you really dont think they influenced yall.anyways,what about blondie lol.

Yo while you laughing blondie had the hot sh*t, them beats were hot,lol

Yo while you laughing blondie had the hot sh*t, them beats were hot,lol at the time, and yo i am in alabama now, surrounding by the same fam, my people know me, they know "big o" is gonna tell like it is, by his self or with a crew, on his version of hip hop and all my grandparents resided in the south till death, that is why i said what i said i been down here for years went to alabama a&m university, and was a shorty coming to the south since infancy for the whole summer, christmas, spring break and this was every year of my life, my fam down here know me. Lendaman will tell you, my man grew up with me, we played stickball in the street together, 230th st. Laurelton queenz, and i just came from home christmas, i have more of a balance than a lot of these cats talking who probably never stepped foot in new york long enough to talk. I am the one who is going to see, what it is about, i've been to l.a. Family and friends in inglewood and i heard true to life bloodz fo real, on my pops grave r.i.p. Talk about tupac, and dissed him, and these cats put in work. But you cant tell nobody around here that, they act like dude was flawless, he had hot lyrics dont get it twisted, but his personality threw me way off. And biggie was hot!! but he wasnt the king to me!!i've been with nas since "live at the bar-b-q"

Ya'll know this album is gonna be to hot, right? thats the only discussion on this topic. Outta 104 comments, props should be the only discussion. Big up to nas, and grow up to those who dont understand.

That nothing big o dawg...you gotta throw it up for your stomping ground...i dont think nobody can ignore the solid body of work yall laid for the rap game. Period...and your right if it wasnt any slick ricks it would be no birdman. Aint no denying that. Over all my only thing i try to state is please please please dont make it seem like the game has been ruined because of the rise of the south. (tho' i "know" you aint coming at cats with that angle). Im just saying that for every laffy taffy its a wack song on the east, and west, and midwest. Err'body doing the cookie cutter thang trying to do what tha other man did for paper. But dont ever thank i aint rocking allllll of nas joints, allll of jigga classics, shyt half the ppl i dissed i got their cd....like i said i love all hip hop. But like my mama used to say, just cause i love you dont mean i cant get in your azz. Lol.

That nothing big o dawg...you gotta throw it up for your stomping ground...i dont think nobody can ignore the solid body of work yall laid for the rap game. Period...and your right if it wasnt any slick ricks it would be no birdman. Aint no denying that. Over all my only thing i try to state is please please please dont make it seem like the game has been ruined because of the rise of the south. (tho' i "know" you aint coming at cats with that angle). Im just saying that for every laffy taffy its a wack song on the east, and west, and midwest. Err'body doing the cookie cutter thang trying to do what tha other man did for paper. But dont ever thank i aint rocking allllll of nas joints, allll of jigga classics, shyt half the ppl i dissed i got their cd....like i said i love all hip hop. But like my mama used to say, just cause i love you dont mean i cant get in your azz. Lol.

That nothing big o dawg...you gotta throw it up for your stomping ground...i dont think nobody can ignore the solid body of work yall laid for the rap game. Period...and your right if it wasnt any slick ricks it would be no birdman. Aint no denying that. Over all my only thing i try to state is please please please dont make it seem like the game has been ruined because of the rise of the south. (tho' i "know" you aint coming at cats with that angle). Im just saying that for every laffy taffy its a wack song on the east, and west, and midwest. Err'body doing the cookie cutter thang trying to do what tha other man did for paper. But dont ever thank i aint rocking allllll of nas joints, allll of jigga classics, shyt half the ppl i dissed i got their cd....like i said i love all hip hop. But like my mama used to say, just cause i love you dont mean i cant get in your azz. Lol.

First of all, i beleive this album will be one of the hottest ever. Also i just want to know when this article became a dispute over which reigon is better then the next? i'm from the south and most of us don't dis other styles. Every reigon has good, and bad influences. No one area is better then the other, just different. Hip hop is supposed to be about feeling not ignorance and fighting. The sooner we all realize this the better. Nas, and jay-z combined is untouchable, so stop hatin on one another, and just enjoy the music. That's what it's all about. Music.

No doubt kalliope, stay on top of your game one!!!!

Hey braz thanks for bringing us back on topic

I feel ya brazzil,but we got this under control.

And wayne may be bullsht,but twista need to take that flow back to '89 where he found it.

Most of yall really give a sh*t about this whole jay and nas thing. I don't. True jay does have keen business savy and nas has dropped gems that carry over for years but who really cares about these dudes other than some die hard purists. I ain't speakin in cam's favor either because he ain't even hit jay the way i would. Who cares about the obvious sh*t man, dig deep into a man's soul and make him wish he wasn't born. That song was some clownish type sh*t! i do agree with those of you that say jay got an ulterior motive. Jay is an egoist, just like dame except jay ain't the confrontational type he's a bit soft. You can look at him and tell. And for evenwhenilie, nas doesn't have to respect jay. Nas has been around longer as a popular artist so he's got that much of an edge. Jay ain't really get hot until the late 90s while nas was burnin souls in the early 90s. Hopefully the union can help the east coast refocus their ante since the south smackin up everybody!

Well said docv. I just want a solid album fuk the cosmetic union. Nas needs to step it up on the hooks and fuk with some new producers.

Thats a joke... Some of nas's best work has been with premire. If anything they should work together a lot more. The last couple needed at least one primo track. Go back and check the tracks with premire and then say you dont want him on the new album. Premire is one of the greatest djs ever and a friend of nas, it would be wrong if hes not on this one.

I think that the unification is definitly a good thing for the east coast b/c jay and nas probably are the best in new york who came out at that time and remained consistant but when i saw the scratch cover with nas and primo i was way more excited i just hope primo has something to do with the new lp. (w-s)

I think hipop is finally getting matured with both rappers making up

Nas the best ? no ? #1 m.j. Of the hiphop world. Bucktooth beaver rapper ain't got ish on god's son. I'm out 1.

To be honest, nas is defiantly an idealistic street poet. With dj primer along side and jay-z being and advocate, this album should be a classic beyond all doubts or high expectations. Let’s us be serious on this issue; nas contains one of the greatest writing capabilities, possibly beyond rakim, which jay-z wouldn’t allow to dwindle. Yes, there’s an incentive, capital wise, for jay-z. Yet, that’s what business’s about. Nas has been in the game for 10 plus, and i’m positive that he understands to the best of his knowledge the proper protocols that are necessary to deliver his album. We’ll see how both entrepreneur’s (jay and nasty) do in two months. One love

Nas working with jay excites the hell out of me . I mean can you really imagine these two guys working together. The lyrics the fire oh my god. You know these guy working side by side will ignite a competitive spirit like never seen. Hip hop will reside once again in newyork dog. Get ready it will be amazingly awesome. Just get ready

I think nas has too much lyrical talent and substance in his music for jay-z to be watchin over him, i think jay should stay away from the project, provide nas with what he needs and let him do his thing. Lookin at jay's new single if he tries to push nas in that direction it will be the biggest dissapointment in rap. If nas strays from his music at all it won't be nas. It seems like jay is tryna play boss over nas, when in my eyes nas is above jays level as a rapper and shouldnt be treated like an everyday artist. Nas is the truth cant wait for the album.

Nas iz 1 ov mah fav emcee's so as long as he spit dat fire im think iz coo

Come on man people jay-z and nas have been beefin in order to push each other throughout the years. Its not like they hate each other like ja rule and 50 cent would be a bad plann ofcourse but nas and jay-z are more proffesional.when jay-z produce an album its similar to some doctor dre sh*t its difinitely not going to flop,besides nas is releasin a album to represent hip-hop and regardless of who has beef whether in be 50 cent vs the game,eminem vs benzino,biggie vs tupac they all have or had one thing in common "love for "hip-hop" so i highly doubt jay-z is going to flop this album on purpose and nas is a very smart kid also so i doubt he wouldnt ready between to lines are jay-z was up to some bullsh*t

Man yall don't forget to cop jeezy's new album dec 12th,the inspiration,thats some real sh*t from the heart if you hood,only true hustlers and gangstas would know what the n*gga is talkin bout"if you a regular white boy who dunno bout the hood and u curious what its like u can cop this album also to become more familar,yall should download "i luv it"jeezy shows his appriciation for the streets support how many rappers u know do that? not much so support him damn maybe i did this as a link instead cant remember but hope u see the pic

The bottom line is this: between nas & jigga, hova won the battle. Nuff said bout that, now moving forward.. Nas is by far one of the illest mcee's, and by moving to dej jam w/ jay, that's by far the smartest move nas could have ever done! none of them are stupid. Jay-z gets more respect now that he stopped the drama & joined forces.. He's a business, man. They're gonna be ill together!

Jay and nas can only be a good thing at the moment, i think this whole deal signifies a whole lot more than just a record deal with the two hottest acts. It's a symbolism that two people can be at war per say and then get to the point where they join alliances to become a force to be reckoned with. We need this over the whole earth in many situations. And even if there are smoke screens and motives behind the scences you have to accept that if the beef was so deep.. The nas / rocafella situation would never of happened. That's like bush and osama deciding to join forces when bush is secretly plotting to turn osama over... Get real! we can speculate all we want but bith parties consented to be where they're at of their own accord and that for me is positive! but everyone is rightly entitled to believe whatever they want to believe. 1 love to all d

I believe the nas jay-z battle put hip-hop back in the right direction. We needed a wake up call from all the past negative drama. You have to understand the business side of nas & jay-z collaborating. Two of the biggest names laying their drama to rest paving the paths for others to do the same. This union gives hip-hop something to look forward to. Hopefully they can put the bullish behind them and bring the respect back in hip-hop.... Not just a business deal. Hip hop is more than a drug sale and killing each other on record. I like nas because he's like a prophet teaching heads through his songs. I like jay because of his confidence to do and say what he wants, and then he backs it up with results. Hopefully nas & jay colabo will bring the fun & respect back in hip-hop. God bless!!

Jay-z and nas, know who can step to that, regardless both these catz are about makin money and good music so jay will let nas do his thing and it'll be a good lp.

Jay-z and nas both are good in rap maybe they will feat and make a new hip hop album...........

Please nas you should be careful of jiga, may be that n*gga is trying toput dam sh*t in you and your album please be worned,smartand wise.

All i can say is that a jay z and nas union is the best thing to hit hiphop since pac.