Nas is no one's colleague in the rap game but a GODFATHER. So puleeeeeeeeeeeez what are we still discussing here?

Jayz na baba ,

Wateva, Nas is the king of the rap game!!! we dont really need this, do we?

concerning jigga and nas, i prefer the both of them cos' jigga has is own rappin' style likewise nas jones.forget about it both of are good rappers.

Hate me now: third verse
It's a thin line between paper and hate
friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights
Hell or the pearly gates; I was destined to come
Predicted, blame God, he blew breath in my lungs
Second to none, wicked turn wives to widows
Shoot through satin pillows, the desolate one
Took a little time to claim my spot
Chairman of the board until this game stop, and I side with the Lord
Ride for the cause while drivin niggas shot at my doors
Plottin I'm sure to catch me with they glocks to my jaws
Tried, stickin me up, but I flipped on these ducks (you tried)
Instead of me, ambulances were picking them up (that's what you get)
Niggas fear what they don't understand, hate what they can't conquer
Guess it's just the fury of man
Became a monster, on top of the world, never fallin
I'm as real as they come, from day one, forever ballin
C'mon, YESSS NAS IS DA KING MAN , GOOODDDSSOOONNNN

nas is one of the deepest emcees in the game right now ill give jay z his props he has the swagger but when it comes down to words,
woke up early on my born day, I'm twenty years of blessing
The essence of adolescent leaves my body now I'm fresh in
My physical frame is celebrated cause I made it
One quarter through life some God-ly like thing created
Got rhymes 365 days annual plus some
Load up the mic and bust one, cuss while I puffs from
my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money maintain
Don't go against the grain simple and plain
When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard
Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip they green cards
Dipped to the projects flashin my quick cash
and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with hash
Now it's all about cash in abundance, niggaz I used to run with
is rich or doin years in the hundreds
I switched my motto -- instead of sayin Bleep tomorrow
That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto
Once I stood on the block, loose cracks produce stacks
I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot back
Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric
Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage

nuthin much left to say lifes a bitch

this na stale argument
jay z is a business man. he is good , very good in fact. but NAS , nas is lyrically better than jigga

comon men, u'll be crazy not to agree, from illmatic to hip hop is dead. this guy is noting short of a lyrical genus

una even dey crace to dey compare them two, they themselves don't do it any more

nas is better wen we talk hip hop. talk about sumtin else?

Are you guys still on this stale argument?To me Jigga is the best lyrically flows everything and his flossing rap is something else

ar summer, I know you gon' miss me
For we been together like Nike Airs and crisp tees
S dots with polo fleeces
Purple label shit with the logo secret
Gimme couple years, shit I might just sneak in
A couple words and like peaches and herb
We'll be reunited and it feels so hood
Have the whole world saying "How you still so good?"
Well I do this in my slumber summer
I ain't none of these half-assed newcomers, you know how I do summer
I drop heat, when you bring the sun up
The combo make niggaz act up, I pick the gun up
Niggaz back up; they know I'm not no fronter
I don't talk shit, I just flip it +Un+ ya
Sorry Lance, I'm just trying to advance my quotes
I ain't making you the butt of my jokes
But let's not stray from what I came to say
To my beloved, think we need some time away
They say if you love it, you should let it out its cage
And Bleep it, if it comes back you know it's there to stay
It's tugging, at my heart, but this time apart is needed
From the public, who should've gave me the pulitz'
Instead gave me they ass to kiss
But you know me, thugging 'til the casket dips
But still shine light down on all my peers
I know they weird, some queer, I still want them to share
And all the success I received, I know you can't believe
I still love 'em but they don't love me
They like the drunk uncle in your family
You know they lame, you feel ashamed, but you love 'em the same
It's like when niggaz make subliminal records
If it ain't directed directly at me, I don't respect it
You don't really want it with Hov, for the record
I put a couple careers on hold, you could be next kid
Keep entering the danger zone
You gon' make that boy Hov put your name in a song
If you that hungry for fame, motherfucker c'mon
Say when, take ten paces and spin
But on another note, 'bout to take another vaca'
On another boat, goddamn a motherfucker rode
His way out the hood, and I pray that I stay out for good
But any day you know a nigga could
Try and play like he Suge, then I gotta play like Dutch Schultz
You pass the dutchie, I blast you, trust me
Niggaz can't Bleep with me
I'm in a good mood, you lucky, I got a good groove
And I ain't trying to Bleep my thing up
But I will lay down a couple green bucks, get you cleaned up
Now I'm +Pulp Fiction+, Colt four-fifth and
Young niggaz that blast for me/blasphemy, no religion

st to get by
Nigga I sold coke, nigga I pushed lah
Carried a fo'five
Claimed I was ready to die
Promised never to cry
Held it all inside
Reality was too much to take so I
Kept my mind fly
Slimmed for most of mine
Soon as I closed my eyes
Then I woke up behind
Nigga either I throw it up, these nines
Or blow up with rhymes
The best flow of mines is like blow up on lines of coke up
And your folks think Hov' just wrote stuff to rhyme
Nah, I'ma poster for what happened seein your moms
Doin five dollars worth to work just to get a dime
So pardon my disposition
Why should I listen to a system that never listened to me?
Picture me working McDonald's (uh uh)
I'd rather pull a mac on you
Sorry Ms. Jackson but I'm packin

It ain't hard to tell, I excel, then prevail
The mic is contacted, I attract clientele
My mic check is life or death, breathin a sniper's death
I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps
Deep like The Shinin', sparkle like a diamond
Sneak a uzi on the island in my army jacket linin
Hit the Earth like a comet, invasion
Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian, half-man, half-amazin
Cause in my physical, I can express throuh song
Delete stress like Motrin, then extend strong
I drank Moet with Medusa, give her shotguns in hell
From the spliff that I lift and inhale, it ain't hard to tell

The buddha monk's in your trunk, turn the bass up
Nas, stories by Aesop, place your loot up, parties I shoot up
Nas, I analyze, drop a jew-el
[b]Inhale from the L, school a fool well, you feel it like braille
It ain't hard to tell, I kick the skill like Shaquille holds a pill[/b]Vocabulary spills I'm Ill
plus Matic, I freak beats slam it like Iron Shiek
Jam like a tech with correct techniques
So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magmatize me
Scannin while you're plannin ways to sabatoge me
I leave em froze like her-on in your nose
Nas'll rock well, it ain't hard to tell

This rhythmatic explosion, is what your frame of mind has chosen
I'll leave your brain stimulated, niggaz is frozen
Speak with criminal slang, begin like a violin
End like Leviathan, it's deep well let me try again
Wisdom be leakin out my grapefruit troop
I dominate break loops, givin mics men-e-straul cycles
Street's disciple, I rock beats that's mega trifle
And groovy but smoother than moves by Villanova
You're still a soldier, I'm like Sly Stallone in Cobra
Packin like a rasta in the weed spot
Vocals'll squeeze glocks, MC's eavesdropT
Though they need not to sneak[/b]My poetry's deep, I never fell
[b]Nas's raps should be locked in a cell
It ain't hard to tell





nas is the king, forget about it.

[Verse Three]
Now you know yo' ass is Willie when they got you in the mag
for like half a billy, and yo' ass ain't lily
white that mean that shit you write must be illy
Either that or your flow is silly - it's both
I don't mean to boast, but damn if I don't brag
Them crackers gon' act like I ain't on they ass
The Martha Stewart, that's far from Jewish
Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it
And no I'm not through with it
In fact, I'm just previewin it
This ain't the show, I'm just EQ'n it
One-two and I won't stop abusin it
To groupie girls, stop false accusin it
Back to the music - the Maybach roof is translucent
Niggaz got a problem Houston! Heh
What up B, they can't shut up me
Shut down I, not even P.E., I'ma ride
God forgive me for my brash delivery
But I remember vividly what these streets did to me
So picture me lettin these clowns nitpick at me
Paint me like a pickany
I will literally kiss T.T. in the forehead
Tell her please forgive me then squeeze until you full 'head
I'm not the one to score points off, in fact
I got a joint that'll knock yo' points off
Young, Hova the God, nigga blasphemy
I'm at the Trump International, ask for me
I ain't never scared, I'm everywhere you ain't never there
And nigga, why would I ever care?
Pound for pound I'm the best to ever come around here
Excludin nobody, look what I embody
The soul of a hustler, I really ran the street
A CEO's mind, that marketin plan was me
And no I ain't get shot up a whole bunch of times
Or make up shit in a whole bunch of lines
And I ain't animated like say I +Busta Rhymes+
But the real shit you get when you bust down my lines
Add that to the fact I went plat' a bunch of times
Times that by my influence on pop culture
I'm supposed to be number one on everybody list
We'll see what happens when I no longer exist
Bleep this!

@bgees
I beg to differ

men i think jay is the man.give it up for him

i respect jigga too.though it took me so long to like him as i am NaS loyalist.

jay-z is the entertainer, the man who has style,the money maker, he uses the better beats.

BUT,

NAS IS THE RAPPER, THE M.C. even jay knows that.



It's like that, you know it's like that
I got it hemmed, now you never get the mic back
When I attack, there ain't an army that could strike back
So I react never calmly on a hype track
I set it off wit my own rhyme
Cuz I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time
I'm max like cassettes, I flex like sex.
------------------------halftime.

I drop jewels, wear jewels hope to never run it
Wit more kicks than a baby in a mother's stomach
Nasty Nas has to rise, kid, surprise
This is exercise til the microphone dies





I'm a nigger, he's a nigger, she's a nigger, we some niggers,
wouldn't you like to be a nigger too?
To all my kike niggas, spic niggers, Guinea niggers, chink niggers,
that's right, y'all my niggers too
I'm a nigger, he's a nigger, she's a nigger, we some niggers,
wouldn't you like to be a nigger too?
They like to strangle niggers, blaming niggers, shooting niggers, hanging niggers,
still you wanna be a nigger too?
True




Nas is bred for the plan
To hold a grand dragon's head in my hand
Come and get me, here I am

-----------------be a nigga too.

jayz is great no doubt but believe me nas is a legend, living legend,

I dont think we should be talking about this.
Jay is ill no doubt but he still had to cross over to secure
himself financially.He lost the street credibility way back.
Please all Sisqo gays should stay off this thread.

Are some people this fickle?

How can anyone compare JIGGA(big-mouth) to LEGEND Nas?
OMG!!!!! Nas is the best thing that happened to HIP-HOP.
Nas is god . . . . . Jigga has nuthing on Pharoah Nas!!!!

@A-40
You posted 'Get By', my dayz Jay was the worst on that track
Even small Kanye killed it.

[Kanye West]
It's on I'm packin weight like nina simone
Piano flow
It's like a Michaelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou
And gave it to a sick poet for they antidote
If music gets you choked up this is the tree and the rope
This is shy nigga I mista all of that
Bleep a map, let's put this bitch on the almanac
Dice what they hittin' for, 'lax what you sittin' on
Tracks who you spittin on, rap till we get it on
And don't let nobody with the power to sign
Ever tell you you ain't got the power to rhyme
They used to tell me toughen up
Put some bass in your voice
They used to tell me lighten up
Put some mase in your voice
Lord willin' I ain't killt nobody
But I have a feelin' this album
That I'm going to make a killin'
Or not a shillin'
This is love it or hate it music
But, at least we made it music
And we didn't make it industry
This is gon' be interesting
This'll be the end of me or I'm finna be an entity
Kanye, Jay-Z, Mos Def, and Kweli
We are not makin' songs no more
We're makin' history

Now tell me who murdered this track, and don't talk too much before you see Kweli's verse

Jay is just a cocky punchline rapper, Nas can do anything with words
For goodness sake Godson started a story from the end to the begining (Rewind-Stillmatic)

Wake up in the morning, shake my third leg in the toilet
Uzi on the nightstand, I'm the man you go to war with
Not a man you go to war against, patience, I'll get you
if that means I can't sleep a WHOLE YEAR, I'ma get you
I'm official not "A-Tisket" or "A-Tasket"
I'll put you in the casket, with the biscuit or the ratchet
They smoke hibiscus, they plants or trees, advanc-ed weed
Don't forsake us, you're all are fake bloods like moviemakers
I flow tighter as Tootie's braces, who be hatin us?
I be on a state bus in shackles if my .8 bust
'Cause y'all some tellers, opposite of bankers
I'm the shit for ages, my clique still real QB gangsters
Clique still movin like Freemasons


all bow to king NaS

yo I just jumped on the line , 1 side view picks NAS, I agree Nas is a rapper who thinks. he speaks The truth, jay is only in it 4 the money -plus its been proven he a rhyme snatcher, don't let the media fool u p diddy had more money then jay, it took Lil Wayne 3 yrs n he's 10 xs bigger then Jayz right now, who do u know that can spit a rhyme backwards, Nas, remember what he said in Mastermind, a master mind See's it b4 it comes, If i ruled the world wit Lauren hill. jayz only has street credit nas is like Wu tang clan

[edit] Foundation of rivalry
The feud between these hip hop legends is widely considered the most captivating of recent times.[3] The deepest roots of the beef may have occurred in 1992 when Nas and Large Professor had a run-in with Jay-Z and Jaz-O.[4] In 1996, Nas refused to re-sing his vocals from "The World Is Yours" for the chorus of Jay-Z's "Dead Presidents II" or appear in its music video.[4] However, the relationship between the two rappers still remained peaceful (Jay-Z even giving a shoutout to Nas in his album liner notes[5]), and the tension did not escalate to full-blown rivalry until after the death of The Notorious B.I.G. The position of most popular rapper in New York (also known as the King of New York) seemed vacant after the death of Biggie, and fans were eager to see who would take over.[3]

Jay-Z continued to show his respect to Nas in 1997 by referencing him on his song "Where I'm From" ("Who's the best MCs? Biggie, Jay-Z, and Nas" and by sampling Nas's voice from his song "Represent" on his own track, "Rap Game/Crack Game". That same year, Jay-Z, who had collaborated with B.I.G., released a song titled "The City is Mine" which seemed to many to be making a claim to the empty throne. The album from which the song came, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1, was reportedly originally titled Heir To The Throne, Vol. 1. Nas, the only other rapper in New York with a reputation rivaling Jay-Z's, but who had never received the same amount of commercial success, responded to Jay-Z on his track "We Will Survive" (released in 1999, on his album I Am…), with "But, now competition is none, now that you're gone//And these niggas is wrong — usin' your name in vain//And they claim to be New York's king? It ain't about that", dismissing Jay-Z as a serious rival as well as attacking both his claims of superiority and his continual evoking of B.I.G.'s legacy. In this song Nas also raps about the life and memory of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.

The highly publicized feud between Nas and Jay-Z began as a rivalry between Nas and Jay-Z's protégé, Memphis Bleek. On his debut album Coming of Age, Bleek made a song entitled "Memphis Bleek Is", which was similar in concept to Nas' single "Nas is Like". On the same album, Bleek recorded "What You Think Of That" featuring Bleek's mentor Jay-Z, which contains the refrain, "I'ma ball 'til I fall/What you think of that?", completely biting Nas in one album efficiently. In retaliation, Nas released the single for the album Nastradamus, which contains the quote, "you want to ball till you fall, I can help you with that / you want beef? I could let a slug melt in your hat." which is a direct reference and diss to Jay-Z's friend and labelmate, Memphis Bleek.[4] Memphis Bleek perceived the reference on "Nastradamus" as a diss, and therefore dissed Nas on the lead single, "My Mind Right", for his album The Understanding, stating "And only a few fit in, your lifestyle's written/So who you supposed to be, play your position". Other tracks released before 2000 that may have been subliminal disses include Nas' "Come Get Me" and Jay-Z's "Imaginary Player".


[edit] Direct feuding

[edit] From Blueprint to Stillmatic, "Takeover" to "Ether"
The tension between the pair surfaced on their next releases, as each included aggressive songs entitled "Come Get Me", and various verbal jabs were thrown during subsequent mixtape appearances. The beef bubbled over into the public eye when Jay-Z mocked Nas's Queensbridge, Queens allies Mobb Deep on stage at the Hot 97 Summer Jam hip hop festival, reciting the opening verse to "Takeover", which ended with the line, Ask Nas, he don't want it with Hov.[6]

Nas responded with an attack on Jay-Z during a radio freestyle over Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid In Full" beat, dissing most of the R.O.C. members — specifically, Jay-Z, Freeway, Memphis Bleek, and Beanie Sigel. Initially, the freestyle was untitled but was later called "Stillmatic", perhaps aimed to promote his new album Stillmatic (It is also called "H To The Omo" as a direct reference to Jay-Z's song "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)". This freestyle contained the rhyme "Is he H to the izzo, M to the izzo? / Fashizzle, you phonie, the rapper version of Sisqó." Jay-Z may have inspired this track not only with his Summer Jam performance, but also with his 1998 track "Is That Yo Bitch?" which alludes to Jay-Z sleeping with Carmen Bryan, the mother of Nas' daughter.[4]

Almost immediately, Jay-Z responded with the re-written track of "Takeover" for the The Blueprint, on which he added a verse (the song originally only addressed Prodigy of Mobb Deep) that attacked Nas for never matching the critical success of his debut Illmatic. He rapped these lines towards Nas:

Use your - BRAAAAAAAIN! You said you been in this ten
I've been in it five - smarten up Nas /
Four albums in ten years nigga? I could divide /
That's one every let's say two, two of them shits was doo /
One was - NAHHH, the other was "Illmatic" /
That's a one hot album every ten year average /
And that's so - LAAAAAAAME! Nigga switch up your flow /
Your shit is garbage, but you try and kick knowledge?
This is the first direct diss track toward Nas and it contains the lyric: "you-know-who/did you-know-what/with you-know-who/But lets keep that between me and you (for now)." Later on, both Jay-Z and Nas stated that this line is in reference to Jay-Z sleeping with Carmen Bryan. The Blueprint also contains an opening track titled "The Ruler's Back".

The song was well-received by hip hop listeners, and listeners and reviewers immediately dismissed Nas as a contender and feared for the end of his career.[citation needed] Therefore, it was a surprise when Nas responded with a greatly acclaimed track entitled "Ether" from his album Stillmatic, in which he mocked Jay-Z's early years as an aspiring young rapper (in which he supposedly idolized Nas) and accused him of being a misogynist. He also explained how Jay-Z exploited The Notorious B.I.G.'s legacy by stealing his lyrics and claiming that he is a better artist. "Ether" contains a Screwed vocal sample by Tupac Shakur from "Bleep Friendz" where he says "mess Jay-Z" and Nas himself mocks Jay-Z's line "I will not lose" from "You Don't Know". He derisively points out that Eminem showed him up on his own album, alluding to the song "Renegade". Nas claims that "The King is back (ill) / where the crown at? (ill will)", claiming that he is the true recipient of the throne after Notorious B.I.G.


[edit] Other direct diss tracks
The positive response to "Ether" created enormous interest in the rivalry throughout the hip hop community, the music media and even mainstream news outlets. Jay-Z responded to "Ether" in a radio freestyle that became known as "Supa Ugly". The first verse of the song is delivered over a sample of Nas' "Got your Self A, ," when Jay-Z claims " I got myself a gun". In the song, Jay-Z dismisses the "Ether" track as being filled with falsehoods and questions Nas' street credibility. The beat of the song then switches up to Dr. Dre's "Bad Intentions", which Jay-Z alluded to an ongoing sexual relationship with Carmen Bryan, the mother of Nas' child. The song also alleges that Bryan also had a relationship with Allen Iverson.

Jay-Z's mother heard the song on the radio and demanded Jay-Z publicly apologize to Nas and his family, to which Jay-Z obliged.[citation needed] In an interview with Rolling Stone,[citation needed] Jay-Z claimed that mentioning his relationship with Bryan was fair game when Nas implied Jay-Z was gay in "Ether". The feud continued to simmer, and rumors of a live pay-per-view freestyle battle began to circulate but never came to fruition.

After the promoters of Hot 97's Summer Jam festival refused to allow headlining Nas to hang an effigy of Jay-Z during his performance at 2002's show, he appeared on Hot 97's rival Power 105 and attacked both the music industry's control over hip hop and the rappers who he saw as submitting to it, including Jay-Z, Nelly, N.O.R.E. and Jay-Z's label mate Cam'ron: "Y'all brothers gotta start rapping about something that's real,  Rappers are slaves." This brought Cam'ron into the Jay-Z/Nas feud; Cam'ron controversially made disparaging remarks about Nas' mother.[citation needed] Ironically, after Cam'ron established his group Dipset in 2005, he attacked Jay-Z for stealing Notorious B.I.G.'s lyrics just as Nas did.

After this incident both continued to go against one another on various tracks, the shots taken including Jay-Z criticizing Nas for his apparent hypocrisy on his The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse album's title track. On "Blueprint 2," Jay begins his diss against Nas in the second verse by attacking his street credibility. Jay also says that while he himself is more successful, he is more generous than Nas with his money. Jay goes on to mock Nas's spiritual persona from Stillmatic and after accusing Nas of using both this appearance and convoluted lyrics in an attempt to appear more intelligent than he is:

Cause the nigga wear a kufi, it don't mean that he bright
Cause you don't understand him it don't mean that he nice
It just means you don't understand all the bullshit that he write
Is it "Oochie Wally Wally" or is it "One Mic"?
In the lines immediately after, he also accuses Nas of hypocrisy for putting out commercial/materialistic-oriented tracks and then denouncing materialism and misogyny on other songs. Jay-Z also says, "My momma can't save you this time / Niggas is history" referencing the public apology his mother made him make after "Supa Ugly" was released. However, Jay-Z raps on a verse saying that he became stronger after "Ether"[7]

Meanwhile, Nas compared himself and Jay-Z to the characters Tony Montana and Manolo respectively from the film Scarface, on his track "Last Real Nigga Alive" from his God's Son album. That track detailed how Jay-Z forced Nas into battling him by attacking him while he was caring for his dying mother. However, the feud died down somewhat toward the end of 2002.


[edit] Aftermath

[edit] Fan response
Debate continues in the hip hop community about who came out on top in the feud. A Hot 97 radio phone-in poll, held days after Jay-Z's release of "Super Ugly" and pitting that track against "Ether", revealed a 58% to 42% split[b][/b] in favor of Nas. After the release of The Black Album, both Nas & Jay-Z paid tribute to each other in interviews. The rivalry also aided their careers critically and commercially. The battle was significant in that it revived the trend of using ‘beefs’ as a source for publicity and promotion for hip hop artists, which became unpopular following the tragic deaths of Tupac Shakur and Biggie, but now prevalent within the hip hop community.


[edit] Reconciliation
In what can be considered a pivotal moment in hip hop history, the feud was formally ended in October 2005 at Jay-Z's I Declare War concert, where Nas made a special guest appearance and performed the hook to "Dead Presidents" and a few of his own tracks such as "NY State of Mind" and "Hate Me Now". In 2005 at another 105.1 concert Jay and Nas reunited on stage and performed a song together.[9]

In January 2006, Nas signed with Jay-Z's Def Jam Recordings, further emphasizing the truce and raising expectations for a possible collaboration.

Nas and Jay-Z are now business partners and they have toured, recorded and appeared on television and radio together throughout 2006. Jay-Z appeared on Nas' latest album Hip Hop Is Dead which was released under Nas' new partnership with Def Jam. The track is titled "Black Republican". Nas also appeared on Jay-Z's 2007 album American Gangster on a track titled "Success". Nas is also noticeable in the music video for the song "Roc Boys" from Jay-Z latest album, American Gangster.

Case closed,

No More Noise Abeg!!!!!!!

Ving ain't lie
I done came through the block in everything that's fly
I'm like, Che Guevara with bling on, I'm complex
I never claimed to have wings on
Nigga I get mine - by any means on whenever there's a drought
Get your umbrellas out because, that's when I brainstorm
You can blame Shawn, but I ain't invent the game
I just rolled the dice, tryin to get some change
And I do it twice, ain't no sense in me
lyin as if, I am a different man
And I could blame my environment but
there ain't no reason why I be buyin expensive chains
Hope you don't think users are the only abusers
Niggaz, gettin high within the game
If you do then, how would you explain?
I'm ten years removed, still the vibe is in my veins
I got a hustler spirit, nigga period
Check out my hat yo, peep the way I wear it
Check out my swag' yo, I walk like a ballplayer
No matter where you go, you are what you are player
And you can try to change but that's just the top layer
Man, you was who you was 'fore you got here
Only God can judge me, so I'm gone
Either love me, or leave me alone


Life is but a dream to me
I don't wanna wake up
Thirty odd years without having my cake up
So I'm about my paper
24/7, 365,366 in a leap year
I don't know why we here
Since we gotta be here
Life is but a beach chair
Went from having shabby clothes
Crossing over Abbey Roads
Hear my angels singing to me
Are you happy HOV?
I just hope im hearing right
Karma's got me feearing life
Colleek are you praying for me
I got deamons in my past
So i got daughters on the way
If the prophecy's correct
Then the child should have to pay
For the since of a father
So i barter my tommorows
Against my yesterdays
In hopes that she'll be OK
And when im no longere here
The shade of face from the flare
I'll give her my share of Carol's Daughter
and a shiny new beach chair



@eldee
Jigga's lines the weakest? obviously you must have been listening to another song

@Jackal
Nas is god.Cmon you are taking this too far dawg

I think Jigga has both and thats why i prefer him he is a complete rapper he is a lyrical genius he has the street cred and he has the money.And if you doubt Jigga lyrically just listen to American Gangsta

@bgees
No be by grammar Jigga is the best

@y'all writin' essays, chill out, them two rappers ain't gon pay yu.

@topic, umm, let's just say Nas is a battle-rapper but Jay-z is just a regular rapper, he's more laid-back. Their styles are totally different.
Some time ago, i'd have said Jay-z is the better of the two but right now, I dunn0. ooh, Nas killed jigga in 'Ether', i ain't even gon lie.
Nas is more hard-core, so to say but really, i got more Jay-z' songs on my Ipod than Nas. Just like Nas said 'there ain't no best, east, west, north, and
south!'. period!

T@meD0:

Hisses at topic--- awon oni ranu! Those two are raking in millions while una dey hia dey waste una time, energy, and bandwith dey argue for hia so tay una wan fight sef. Hisses again and walks away.

Who be this irritant?

@chiogo
Nas is good no doubt quite cerebral.Uses a lot of grammar in his rap but as for hardcore i dont think so! hardcore was Pac,NWA.As for Jigga he is a smooth mix of both and he does it effortlessly

A-40:

Who be this irritant?

@chiogo
Nas is good no doubt quite cerebral.Uses a lot of grammar in his rap but as for hardcore i don't think so! hardcore was Pac,NWA.As for Jigga he is a smooth mix of both and he does it effortlessly

I dont think you know what you are saying.
Where is the street in H.O.V.A again.He is too rich
and far away from the streets that he aint got any war
stories to yarn about again.

Its better you go check out his works.

@A-40
It's not even about big grammar,let's be honest, Nas is more deep/motivational. I can't think of any of jigga's song that is deep save for 'hard knock life', he mostly raps about his swag,etc, which is fine by me because sumtimes,that's what I want to listen to. Sumtimes too, I feel in d mood to listen to songs like 'l can'. I'll say again that they got different styles.

@baslone
Trust me if you where worth almost 400 mil you wouldnt be so street either but cmon give this nigga a break do you still expect him to be hustlin or rappin about the street at this point of his life? Besides 99% of rappers are not street the real street guys are the niggas doing time in a Federal Penitentiary doing 25 to life

@chiogo
Jigga can be deep when he wants to! listen to Lost Ones,Beach Chair and even a lot of tracks on American Gangster

The greatest: RAKIM, PAC, NAS AND BIG!

BANG BANG, Q-BEE, ILL-WILL!!!

A-40:

Nas is good no doubt quite cerebral.Uses a lot of grammar in his rap but as for hardcore i don't think so! hardcore was Pac,NWA.As for Jigga he is a smooth mix of both and he does it effortlessly

Er. . .whatcu saying??
Nas ain't hardcore? then who is
Have you listened to 'Made you look', 'Get Yaself a Gun', 'Smoking'
At least those are recent enough for you to download on i-tunes
Guy pass me that spliff, let's share it equally

A-40:

Trust me if you where worth almost 400 mil you wouldnt be so street either but cmon give this nigga a break do you still expect him to be hustlin or rappin about the street at this point of his life? Besides 99% of rappers are not street the real street guys are the niggas doing time in a Federal Penitentiary doing 25 to life

Nas once said it that JayZ should point to one endz he ruled. . .
How dare you say Nas is not street?
Nas hosts free street concerts, brings up new rappers like Quan and Nashawn, refused to sell out for millions. . .
Tell me one other top emcee does that, infact tell me if Hov can walk on the streets of Brooklyn that he reps. . .

P.S please don't ever say Hov has street cred again ever!!!
Cam'ron killed every last iota of street cred he had on 'Swagger Jacker'

A-40:

@chiogo
Jigga can be deep when he wants to! listen to Lost Ones,Beach Chair and even a lot of tracks on American Gangster

Alert me when Jay gets as deep as 'One Mic' or 'Thugz Mansion'