Jay-Z vs. Nas: Another spat from the vaults of hip hop's more high-profile feuds – this one raged for years, with the two rappers trading all sorts of insults through various verses. Jay-Z boasted of sleeping with the mother of Nas' child, called him a “fake” and branded him a one-hit wonder in reference to the success of his 1994 Illmatic album. Nas response was “Ether;” a four-and-a-half minute diss track that asked: “You seem to be only concerned with dissing women, were you abused as a child, scared to smile, they called you ugly?”
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