There was a thread a while back questioning the impact of Ether. I didn't comment there, but one thing I was gonna say was what took us all by surprise was how out of character it was for Nas. He stuck to the basics of battling, which is humiliating your opponent to the most basic and personal degree as well as displaying a superior level of rap skill. Nas wasn't seen as the confrontational type, so the bars hit that much harder. Doesn't take away from the impact of the actual disses... Jay was painted as a physically weak bottom feeder that needed to borrow from BIG's catalogue for a hit and made a love song with a 16 year old. Add that to the fact it was going against Takeover, a potent diss itself, plus set to a backdrop of a multi label war. And it wasn't these lyrical pillow fights these niggas is having now.... saying the wrong thing would get you beat the fuck up. So yeah, Nas has to put that African medallion shit on the backburner and get his clothes dirty. That's what I was raised off. This shit today... it's like I'm actually watching an episode of Euphoria, and I never even seen that show. If you were there when Beans called out Jada in New York I don't know how you could get jiggy with this shit.
