Jay Z Sends Subliminal At Nas

 

Last year, a “retired” Jay Z went on the Summer Jam stage and performed Dead Presidents with Nas and announced that Kelis’s husband was signing to Def Jam and that truce was declared by the former battling rivals. A year and a few months later and we are still waiting for a new Nas album and Jay Z has already released his come back single Show Me What You Got. In general I find the song underwhelming. The track relies too much on the horn sample that was already used in Rump Shaker and by Public Enemy before that. In addition, the lyrics while better then all the Yung Joc, Rick Ross, and Jibbs type gibberish we have been hearing of late, were not extraordinary. There is one line that caught my attention though:
Tell these other dudes it’s a wrap
Get the fuck out the throne you clone
The King’s Back!
Yall got less than 2 months to get yall shit together. Good luck!”

 Lets try to deduce who this line might be going at. Theoretically, Diddy has referred to himself as the KONY on a few occasions, but combs/carter have never had beef and the throne Mr. Carter is referring to is not the same one that that Mr. Combs is referring to. Mr. Carter is referring to the thrown that Mr. Wallace once held. Maybe he is talking about Mr. Jackson first name Curtis with that line since 50 has also referred to himself as the KONY. However, the last reference about 2 months to get things together would not make any sense in terms of insulting 50. That leaves one last person who claimed to sit on the throne in the past, Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones. In addition Nas’s released date for album Hip Hop is Dead is coincidently in 2 months. Add in the final fact that Nas while being an extremely talented MC is known for not having his shit together and releasing the occasional haphazard album and it seems that Jay is going at Nas in hopes that it will light a fire under Nas to finish a quality album in time for the 4th quarter Holiday rush.
Prediction: Nas album is somewhat poppier then usually. (Will-I-AM is producing on it for god’s sake.) But despite the attempted pop appeal, the album underperforms in sales causing finger pointing between Jay and Nas and the ultimate demise of the partnership and Nas eventually releasing a good album without help from Jay sometime in 07.

 

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