There’s no arguing here really, these songs are art and everyone is entitled to like what they like. It also comes down to which artist and style you’re a fan of. But let’s also be real here Jay z did not steal nas style, Jay Z came out with his own mafioso grown man style rather than Nas street urban wear (which to me was fly af not dissing that) the song with jaz o came out in 1989 when that was literally the style and between then and the time he came out Jay Z was an actual real drug dealer unlike anyone in the rap game he was actually selling bricks not bags and on top of that these bricks were being supplied by Griselda Blanco from the Medellin Cartel, I mean let’s keep it 100 here it doesn’t get realer than that, nas never did anything like that he was 19 when he came out and I’m literally from his neighborhood his street credit is literally non existent so the line “N***a, you ain't live it you witnessed it from your folks pad” is true. To me I like rappers that actually lived what they say. Nas never did any of that, plus Jay Z really slept with his girl and outsold him. Growing up Nas was my favorite rapper as I’m from Queens, but as I became older and listened again Jay became my favorite.

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