(If, by '"history", you mean "a series of back-and-forth outright dis tracks followed by some passive-aggressive grumbling, then a swift resolution that goes against everything the beef was about", of course.) Jay-Z, as we all know, responded in the classiest fashion possible: he called him out in front of a sold-out audience at radio station Hot 97's annual Summer Jam concert. Nas, of course, responded back to this, but threw in a thinly veiled dis toward Shawn for good measure: it would only have been more obvious if he rode naked into Times Square on a purple unicorn with a neon sandwich board that read "Fuck Jay-Z". Most people seem to assume that there has always been a rivalry in place between the two (since they're both successful rappers from New York), and most people are probably right, but for Max's sake, humor me and acknowledge that the beef didn't truly begin until Nasir responded to a line in a Memphis Bleek song that wasn't necessarily intended as a verbal attack, but Bleek responded as you would expect any rapper to, especially when Shawn Carter is ghostwriting your shit. I've already gone over the beef between Nasir and Cormega at length (for the uninitiated, let's just say that Cormega once stole Nas's binky and Nasir's ability to hold a grudge has reached heights no human has ever seen without the aid of telescopic equipment), but the more imminent threat to his breadwinning at this point was Jay-Z.
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