Nas - Ether (REACTION) 🔥

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[@thesparkedbrain]

Pac and Nas squashed things while Pac was in NY, right before he got killed in Vegas. Pac had every intention of removing those Nas disses from those songs, but he just didn't live long enough to do so. Pac was bumping Nas in the car all the way to Vegas. I am betting Nas would have been on Pacs' One Nation album had he lived.

[@kenandon5340]

Agreed...I really wish they made a official song together......

[@andresarias3178]

Theres a reason NAS is one of the GOATS. He survived THE TAKEOVER, no one should have been able to come back after that but he did.

[@andresarias3178]

@@JackReacts904 keep doing your thing bro. Its dope to see someone from the younger generation reacting to old school HipHop and actually listening and catching Bars. You're a real student of the game. Much respect.

[@57kwest]

Don't apologize for pausing. We're here for a reaction to the song, not the song by itself. I totally appreciate someone your age "digging in the crates" and loving the craft. It takes alot to write your words in a way that really put others in your mindset. Keep doing what you're doing young lion!

[@zynairepressley23]

FACTS. 😁

[@zynairepressley23]

@@JackReacts904 Lmfaofr 🤣🤣🤣 JJ Evans is from the show Good Times Bro that's who Nas was referring him/Gay Z as man. 😖😂

[@cttheking]

Much respect as well I was born in 84 and this was the golden age of hip hop. Now we got GRISELDA. Yeah youngin don't apologize I luv hearing the reaction.!

[@frigginirishloons]

Yeah...though he does sometimes talk over the song so much, he misses some good stuff

[@acgthamc]

Gay-Z and cockafella dats one of tha most fire punchlines ever 🤣

[@koreysylver9276]

Zero subliminals or sneak disses. Nas came straight for Jay’s head from jump

[@tiyalewhitehurst338]

"God Son across the belly I prove u lost already " enough said

[@hruff7787]

@@JackReacts904 and the "I will not loose" is a Rockafella slogan We will not loose they said on quite a few tracks. Nas flipped it.

[@dominicanguy9117]

Did you know the “fuck jay z” at the beginning is actually Tupac saying that but the vocals were changed so it sounded deeper but they were taking directly from a diss track that Pac once made for jay z

[@yellow01umrella]

2Pac - Fuck Friendz "Understand this: ain't no nigga like me, fuck Jay-Z! He broke and I smoke daily-baby, let's be friends!"

[@haydotzero3372]

And Jay z started dissing Nas during the time his mother passed away so Nas was kind of mourning and took some time off. That was why he said friendly wishes and laugh in your back

[@cche16]

there's a reason jay z was never well liked in ny and amongst other big rappers

[@pcfool13]

This actually a response to Jay z song the takeover

[@lowkeywoodfella]

All what Nas said was facts. Yes he redid alot of biggie verses

[@lowkeywoodfella]

@Rheya Ruiz a out the lyrics he borrowed from biggie, him being a better rapper then big, him naming his label after the man Rockefeller that died of aids, all that is true

[@anthonyanderson9303]

@Rheya Ruiz Nah there's paying homage, then there's straight up line jacking. It's one thing you reference a famous line that everybody knows, but Jay would take an obscure Big line from an album cut and make it like it was his own. And he didn't just do this with Big, he used to jack other people's lines too like Snoop for example.

[@cypriankim5235]

@@anthonyanderson9303 Facts💯

[@osasprosper1459]

@Rheya Ruiz jay first single dead president sampled nas song Ain't hard to tell, on the hook

[@DuceVasquez215]

Cap lmao Nas spit a lot of lies

[@cmac7721]

The bar I heard that hurt jayz the most was when he mentions that your man stabbed un and made you take the blame. At the time that info was not out there.

[@brynneholt1990]

Guess it’s not a good idea to diss people who have so much dirt on you.

[@arlington4508]

Chile, Nas buried Jay in this. It was legendary. I remember when Nas went up to the radio station in NY once it dropped. A moment!

[@d.shereelife377]

Was it not 97??

[@lowkeywoodfella]

Yes after 2pac died. Nas and pac got a song together on one of his albums after he died. Pac said he had alot of respect for nas

[@mikegillins4992]

Good assessment...that album was better days thugz mansion the acoustic version back in 2002

[@radamezprince3505]

It's Jaz-O *"Hawaiian Sophie"* & Jay was a small feature.

[@slimerv]

Nas also had a freestyle dissing Jay Z and Rocafella over that Eric B & Rakim “Paid in Full” beat. It must’ve been on a mixtape but I think it was before he dropped Ether. It was dope.

[@BrileyGabriel]

JJ Evans was a character on a popular 70's sitcom called, "Good Times". He was skinny and dark skinned with big lips like Jay, and his character was kind of "clownish" in the way that many black characters were portrayed on TV and in films at that time.

[@tinakupa5167]

Remy Ma did a diss track to Nicki Minaj called Shether using the same Ether beat and it was the end of that whole beef!!

[@JuanVicioGotti]

But there really wasn't a beef. A week before shether dropped, remy is on hot 97 with ebro saying nicki never did anything to her there is no beef. Then 7 days later we hear shether. Now we know Atlantic was the mastermind behind it all.

[@cche16]

@@JuanVicioGotti it's all about healthy competition. nothing wrong with that. it's a good thing seeing artists challenging each other and working on their craft.

[@jamiecloughgaming25387]

She did it kick off her career but it didn't really take off after that, also, shether has more views than ether which is sacrilegious.

[@JuanVicioGotti]

@@jamiecloughgaming25387 but that's only cause ether was before KZbin

[@JuanVicioGotti]

@@cche16 it wasn't about that at all. I literally was pitting two women against each other who never had any issues with each other. Where is this competition in other genres of music you speak of? Remy was used as a pawn by Atlantic to tear Nicki down only to bring up their upcoming artist. Prior to the song, there wasn't any issues between the two.

[@radamezprince3505]

Ron Browz produced That voice saying F Jay-Z is Pac

[@thejokersonyou]

"If i aint better than BIG... i'm the closest oooooone..." - Jay

[@j-short5431]

Jay was on the radio crying the next day.

[@nicolecunningham5477]

He sure was 🤣🤣🤣

[@lalayon08]

I know I’m late to this response. But lots of us old hip hop heads found it ridiculous that jay-z thought he was the best rapper even though everything he’s ever done was a basic carbon copy of someone else. And when nas eithered him. We all clapped. Love jay as a business man. That’s not just talent but strategy and ambition but when it comes to hip hop, he will objectively near the best.

[@sundiatamali8220]

Yeah, Nas has genuine love for Pac. And yeah, Jay was stealing other people's ideas and styles. Jay Z even stole from Nas. Jay stole " Me & My Girlfriend from Pac." 🤣 Jay steals from everybody

[@nickc1411]

Saye saye ya Jay was decent. I feel reasonable doubt was good, but overrated. I’m not a huge Kanye fan, but his producing made Jay-Z blow up mainstream. Jay is weak. Put him top 15-20, fine. But can’t even be same conversation as top 5-10 rappers. And ur right the me & my gf took such hard gangster song and stole n made it billboard pop track

[@Bankallday]

If you say Jay "stole" then every rapper stole. Jay pays homage, there's a difference between that and biting. And Pac and Nas was mutual fans of each other's artistry but they aint have no real love for each other nigga, stop it. Pac stepped to Nas at an award show and Nas was deep as hell and ready to blow Pac head off. Stop being biased lil nigga

[@sundiatamali8220]

Nick C I wouldn't say Jay is overrated, but he's flawed. Jay Z reasonable doubt was good, but not greater than Pac, Nas & Biggie. And, he definitely stole from other artists in the beginning.

[@sundiatamali8220]

Rheya Ruiz He stole the whole song, not a sample from Pac & stole Nas's line without clearance. Stop nut hugging a thief

[@sundiatamali8220]

Rheya Ruiz Not a sample, he took his song & chorus. Afeni didn't pursue any lawsuit, she let it go. Jay is always biting off other artists.

[@BrileyGabriel]

Dude, I dont know what your back ground is, but your ear for music is outstanding, and even without proper context, your interpretation of these bars are damn near 98%. You've got my subscription! I have to go back and see what you've already reviewed before I make a suggestion, but I love your reactions and your insights to, not just the bars, but the beats!! You are a unicorn among your age group! Lol

[@CW043]

How can someone be a HUGE Nas fan and have NEVER HEARD ETHER.

[@yosheef007]

Jack hears one good thing and gives massive thats my favorite homage lol. I feel it tho, he be meaning it

[@JADTO]

"Ether" & "Stan" created in 1 song and been here ever since

[@lowkeywoodfella]

React to ice cube no vaseline. A diss too NWA after he left

[@MVNYO]

Ether literally is the best and most impactful diss song EVER!!!!!.... J’s first hit “dead presidents” sampled Nas saying dead presidents... on J’s first album “Rap Game/Crack Game” was also a sample of a line that Nas used to make the song... which is y Nas said “kept my name in ya music”... j was biting from day one

[@mcnzefili]

Many of this diss is based on Jay-z's Blueprint album. Jay-Z disses girls of different races on a track named, "Girl, Girls Girls" He disses Nas on "The Takeover" where he called Nas trash and garbage and brags about his riches and Biggie and so on. Those are the things Nas is referring to in this diss track. "Eminem murdered you on your own shit" reference to "Renegade" (which you've reacted to already; and truly Em murders Jay on that track). The Em murdering Jay-Z on his own song, brought about people paying attention to who out-raps who on a feature. The Nas diss on The Takeover brought Nas out of hibernation and he had to respond to Jay Z. Jay-Z didn't respond to this song but he responded to Nas' other disses directed to him on the Illmatic album, songs like "Got Yourself a Gun"

[@pslim68]

That's actually Tupac in the beginning

[@redscorpion9325]

Pac and Nas squashed the Beef b4 he died

[@knephsabir3245]

That pac sample makes it more lethal.

[@RP.123]

When he says “Fox got you hot”. You should react to “Aint No N” feat Foxy Brown. Foxy stood out on that song. That was Jay Z’s breakout song.

[@wasilwassiq491]

"Just ask Kiss (Jadakiss)". Jay was at a concert and Jadakiss and Rough Ryder came and made Jay apologize on stage. FACTS FACTS FACTS

[@Taj_Rahine]

Yooo, how did you catch almost all of the references? that was impressive.

[@rubengonzalez5703]

Nas the Message 🔥🔥💯

[@rubengonzalez5703]

@@JackReacts904 keep up the work bro 💯

[@rubengonzalez5703]

My bad bro keep the good work

[@beckystarrski]

Such a nasty, classic diss track!! 🤣💀 Glad you reacted to it!! ✌🏻

[@henrryarguera7875]

Love the channel man! Bone brought me here and I’ve watched almost all the videos. I know that you’ve been doing a lot of hip-hop and R&B. But I am wondering if by chance you can do unplugged Alice In Chains and the song is called “would “ I truly think that you would love The MTV unplugged sessions from the 90s

[@tracydavis5253]

Your great at breaking down your reaction keep up the good work your wise beyond your years Bro

[@eridon111]

Yo jack gotta check out "made you look" by nas

[@JADTO]

Nas -Purple

[@frankwhizza664]

Nas only spitting facts son recognise

[@justincollins3874]

2nd Childhood & Rewind off this album

[@srtjackson6716]

F’ no, I gotta pause it‼️😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😅

[@Ryattt81]

"And if I ain't better than BIG, I'm the closest one" -Jay Z I love Jay too, but this qas raw.

[@killathamc7573]

He said, if I ain't better than BiG then I'm the closest one...

[@marvinreeves4034]

The rapper he talking about is JAZ O he goes hard too. He is on a song with Jay Z called Jigga What I think

[@orlanzo2621]

@@JackReacts904 Yea JAZ O was Jay Z's mentor back in the day.

[@plmitch]

Jigga What was basically a 2nd version of The Originators---a song from the same era as Hawaiian Sofie...it goes HARD... kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKitZYRnqcp0jqs

[@mikegillins4992]

Krs1 blueprint was released I believe in late eighties or early nineties nas was on point...great reaction and breakdown and jj Evan's bytheway is from the good times back in the seventies

[@liveanddieinchicagoliveand7074]

Kool G Rap gave Nas his style nobody ever talks about Kool G Rap

[@tbohfela]

Nas is a cross between Ra, Grap and MC Shan. You cant attribute his style to one MC. illmatic is stystically different from G Rap offerings

[@willsmooth1355]

@@tbohfela u can add tragedy to Nas's style as well. Nas used all of them and made it into his own style. Nas is the GOAT.

[@snaptzer]

Yea one of them dudes. He Nas does talk about him a lot, also in "Surviving the times"

[@Man_eee]

G Rap Influenced Hundreds of 90s rappers. Ya'll forgot to mention Slick Rick! Who Nas learned how to become one of the best storytellers from.

[@blackjag121]

Nas-Rewind😱😱😱😱

[@blackice7408]

Tradin war stories - 2pac

[@bundlezeast5647]

Alright,camron made a track called swagger jacker where he basically is narrating allll of Biggie's rhymes that Jay stole. It was soooo many of them and they all on Jay's hits. Ron Brows produced Ether. You MUST check one of Nas's hardest classics called The Message. Crazy.

[@balince_media2754]

What up Jack…. He’s referring to the big Pimpin video with UGK… I’ll be your historian for this Shit. This was the prime of my life

[@arminevorperian289]

Jay started it Nas wrote that ish while his mom was sick

[@blackice7408]

Me and my girlfriend - makaveli

[@shirleysaidsew1969]

They literally had one of THE MOST EPIC battle to date!! The only reason they called a truce was because of the passing of Biggie and Tupac. They knew that they could easily end up in the same situation but instead chose to turn it around.

[@brianlarkins4250]

Jay said on the blueprint if I ain’t better than Big I’m closest one

[@jaym8300]

This still hurts and it even about me 😂😂😭

[@tracydavis5253]

The song was called Hawaiian sophie Jazz O is the tapper on the song

[@damnthisuser]

I should react to foul breeze. U have no idea how deep this Nas thing goes!

[@ActionFigureWorld]

Jay-z said on record "If I'm not better than BIG, I'm the closest one!"

[@koreysylver9276]

“If I ain’t better than Big, I’m the closest one” was Jay’s words.

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

Yeah Foxy Browns first album cam out in 1996 when she was 17. Before that she had appeared on a few songs by Most notably LL Cool J, Nas, Total and I think Jay Z. After her first album she would continue to collab with Jay Z in 1997 and 1998. Foxy Brown was album part of a short lived rap crew with Nas and AZ Called the firm around the same time. I had heard that Jay Z had been with foxy but I didnt know it was when she was underage though. Although it makes sense

[@Work_husband_energy]

I heard jay z gave foxy brown chlamydia as well

[@diva1675]

I remember The Firm it had Dawn from En Vogue.

[@blairbryan4040]

She wasn't underage at the time barely though. The reason the foxy brown diss was hard she was known to be domme so it was implied he was her under.

[@gamexsimmonds3581]

@@blairbryan4040 If you read my comment you'll see that I say when she dropped her album and when she was featured on folks songs she was underage. Then at the bottom I say I don't know if she was underage. I know what that line means and implies. I onlyborught up foxys age because he mentioned it in the video

[@zynairepressley23]

Gay Z started the beef first and Nas ended the beef by finishing what JJ Evans did what he was failed to do so that being said he got Ether'd right off the face of the earth 🌎 I lie to you not 🙌 hands down. PERIOD

[@DuceVasquez215]

Yeah whatever happened to that Jay-Z guy? LMAO

[@anthonyanderson9303]

In reference to the "first Biggie's your man then you got the nerve to say that you better than Big" line, he's referencing a Jay track "Hola Hovito" off the Blueprint album where he says "If I'm not better than Big, I'm the closest one".

[@hoda_xyz6107]

Dam puberty, you sounds so different now!!! Lol

[@jackieholloway1896]

Dope reaction

[@jackieholloway1896]

keep doing you respect

[@brynneholt1990]

I listen to this when I’m feeling vindictive. Check out Dre Day and a few songs from LL Cool J like I’m Bad and Mama Said Knock You out - good for when you’re feeling aggressive or need to drive somewhere real fast.

[@lloydmartin7065]

Great dis track, produced by the mighty Premier, The diss about giving a style is, Jay Z used to rap double time and when he did the Hawaiian Sophie and many more like it. Then he slowed down, and they say that is thanks to Nas, Have a look at Jay Z The Takeover, Knarley beat on that. But Nas Won this hands down, all facts, no fat

[@bjarniasmundsson3670]

The intro starts with gunshots from Notorious B.I.G.'s Who Shot Ya?, immediately followed by a Screwed voice of 2Pac saying "Fuck Jay-Z", originally taken from the song "Fuck Friendz".

[@marcuswalls9701]

Jay said if I ain't Betta than BIG I'm the closest one..it's on hola hovito.. blueprint album

[@strawhats0823]

Truthfully jay took numerous biggie rhymes all throughout his career. Its what really made him popular. Just look into it. Jay was just living biggies life before big died.

[@ivyleewarren4358]

Dope

[@koreysylver9276]

Jay & Dame’s relationship was similar to Big & Puff’s. But Jay & Dame were co owners of RocAFella records (with Biggz) while Big had no ownership of Bad Boy records.

[@TheKingdavis09]

That’s Pac in the beginning saying fuck Jay-z

[@nigelsemple1696]

Nas ft. AALIYAH- You won't see me tonight

[@d.shereelife377]

Dope! Should've gotten more play

[@carlospaz2616]

DJ Quik's diss track to MC Eiht. Dollaz + Sense. Was the best diss track to ever be made. You should listen to it

[@jbear7136]

Do Nas rewind. It will blow your mind!

[@mirrortintedvessel]

there were some subliminals...then: Nas-- Stillmatic (H to the Omo freestyle) JayZ--Takeover Nas--Ether JayZ--Super Ugly Jayz--Blueprint 2 Nas--Last Real Nigga Alive and jay had a line in hola hovito-- "if i aint better than big, im the closest one"...thats what nas was referencing

[@ALB2574]

Yep KRS One did make an album called the Blueprint & Nas straight up called Jay-Z a camel, which he wasn't lying. Jay-Z tried to dish it, but Nas, Nas gave him something he could feel, & the streets put a stamp on it & validated that sh*t!!!

[@MrMrdamon1]

J used to rhyme like the fooschnikins

[@4ShowStopper]

Please react to "Hit em high" (The Monstars' Anthem) from 1997 Space Jam movie.

[@user-cy9ze4wx2i]

5:52. Jay never said he was BETTER THAN BIG .BUT....he was forcing his fans to believe it . In HOLA HOVITO track . He said..." cause none got more flows than Young Plus got more flows to come And if I ain't better than Big, I'm the closest one" . In the whole album he's saying he's the King of NY . And then ...if you think I ain't better than BIG . I'm the closest one, so basically he's saying...I'M BETTER THAN B.I.G. but if you don't think I am. Then I'm the closest one

[@keithharding3477]

The song was Hawaiian Sophie, and it was Jaz-O song

[@ChefOG_Ra]

You should react to Nas - Last Real Nigga Alive. It’s a quick run thru of his time in the industry and he touches on his beef wit Jay. Also, on the same album as Ether, you should react to Rewind. He tells a story from end to beginning

[@CarryTheThree]

Pac was the voice clip that said fuck Jay z,.. the I WILL NOT LOSE was jay'z motto at the time he said on alot of his records.. Hawaiian Sophie was a Shot at how jay z came up, one of his first song's with Jaz o.. of Note,,.. he jam packs his verse's

[@oishiAMG]

you should do represent also by nas

[@666blackcarbon9]

JJ Evans is Jimmy Walkers character on Good Times... google him if you don’t know him... Jay-Z resembles him🤣🤣🤣

[@t-spray1360]

There is a whole backdrop story that led up to ether

[@mikebrown9051]

Listen to "Where have you been" on the "Dynasty" Album.

[@jackieholloway1896]

About to cook my family some dinner love this shitt

[@flatbkush6]

*In chronological order: Take Over, Ether, Super Ugly... Ur welcome*

[@dexterhaynesiii8875]

React to Eric b and Rakim My Melody and Follow the Leader

[@2apocalypsex]

He was talking about Jaz-O

[@raulramos9525]

If you like NAS you need to react to Undying Love . You won't regret it. It's another NAS Classics

[@24.7SMOKESHOW]

pac nas or big is a reference to a jay z line talking about whos the best

[@sirrohn]

Bro check out DJ Quik dollaz n sense it’s a Mc Eiht diss track And check out Mc Eiht diss to DJ Quik call deathwish off the we come strapped album

[@charrsvader1454]

Good times jay jay evans

[@troyg.173]

Fun Fact: This song was released on Jay-Z's birthday😂

[@therealsalikh]

You traded your soul for riches Oh my God, He's illuminate

[@caseropr]

No one ever talks about the (Ewwwwww) adlib when Nas mentions BIG and Puff.... Makes it seem like Nas knew Puff be on that gay stuff haha

[@djstackademikz]

Queens and Brooklyn are right next to each other nas from queens Jay from BK nas had rap money while Jay was still in the streets getting street money but Jay was already rich so they knew each other