Raekwon took to Instagram Dwell just lately to deal with rumors that Nas was dissing Jim Jones in an alternate verse from their new track “The Omerta” from the Wu-Tang legend’s mishap album The Emperor’s New Clothes that surfaced on-line.
“Nas didn’t write that verse for Jim. That was a stray shot Jim obtained hit with,” The Chef told fans on IG Live. “Y’all made it appear to be that was for Jim. Nas wasn’t dissing Jim. He wasn’t dissing him. And the rationale why he modified it? As a result of he knew that on the finish of the day, ‘Rattling, Chef I gave you this verse months in the past, and now all this sh—t is popping up.’”
He then revealed that the Queensbridge rapper determined to modify up his verse final minute as a result of he needed to keep away from this very dialog.
“After I’m on the brink of drop my album,” he started to clarify. “Nas hits me and says, ‘Yo, Chef, I’ma do one other verse, my n—a, as a result of I don’t know for some motive I feel that this rhyme proper right here is gonna make n—as really feel like I’m dissin’ Jim and I’m not. This rhyme I made method earlier than all this sh—t ever got here.’”
He added that he would by no means put a diss track on one in every of his albums about an individual that he’s cool with. “And that is actual sh—t, I don’t must misinform ya n—as, man. I promise ya n—as, he wasn’t dissing Jim,” he once more reiterated. “This ain’t no diss report. And if it was a diss report, why would he put it on my report? ‘Trigger guess what? I f—ok with Jim. He know I f—ok with Jim.”
The leaked verse in query is considerably much like the verse that ultimately made the minimize except for the traces under the place Nas addresses his haters: “Acquired smoke with me? Beef with your self/ I be chiefin’ too exhausting to note each week it’s any individual else/ Quickly as my title’s talked about lames are offended/ If phrases damage you, it wasn’t supposed/ However on the subject of my phrases if I stated it I meant it/ If the shoe matches, this one is for you b—tch/ You bought me confused along with your fabricated false type of delusion/ You’re dusty, have to be b—tch-smacked, face underneath stomped toes on concrete.”
The Jim Jones versus Nas dialogue started when a clip of a 22-year-old faculty scholar from New Jersey acknowledged on a podcast that he was influenced extra by Jim Jones than by Nas. Jones then predictably defended himself on the Joe and Jada podcast.
“When it got here to dressin’, the wordplay, the music, the whole lot,” he stated. “I used to be a superior Nas fan, interval. I’ll by no means take that away from him. However then, as I obtained within the recreation, you gotta understand, your idols turn into rivals. Not to remove something from that. I developed my very own model and my very own lane that these children began to gravitate in direction of to, the identical method I gravitated in direction of Nas after I youthful.”
He additionally advised Angie Martinez that he didn’t understand defending himself would make everyone so upset and underestimated Nas’ standing throughout the rap group.
“Man, I didn’t know the way many individuals liked Nas, although,” he admitted. “I’m watching folks go completely batsh–t loopy, like goddamn. However that’s hip-hop. There’s those who I adored as a fan too that I’ll most likely go batsh–t loopy for in the identical scenario, I find it irresistible, that’s what the sport was constructed on. Let’s not make no mistake, I put in numerous work and I did numerous unbelievable issues that lots of people haven’t gotten to do on this trade.”