Dame Dash has reflected on the legendary beef between JAY-Z and Nas, saying that he had “no fear” of anybody getting hurt despite the bitter rivalry between the two rappers.
Appearing on the Moguls in the Making podcast, the Roc-A-Fella Records was asked about the potentially violent nature of rap beef but said he and Hov weren’t concerned about things getting out of hand during the latter’s battle with Nas in the early 2000s.
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“There was no fear of us getting hurt when it came to Nas. I’m telling you right now, there was no fear of any violence when it came to that,” he insisted. “There was no fear when it came to us of any battle that we had when it came to violence. We were never worried about that.”
He added: “Now, ‘Pac and Biggie, n-ggas got killed. But n-ggas get killed in Hip Hop now. They be battling and then they end up dead. It’s a little more serious now.”
Watch his comments at the 1:06:43 mark below.
Dame Dash previously claimed that Nas won the feud after the release of “Supa Ugly” backfired on JAY-Z.
“Jay’s response was terrible,” he said on the That’s F***ed Up Podcast last year. “The thing is, we had first hit him with the joint at Summer Jam that was kinda hard, the ‘Takeover.’ But when [Nas] came with the ‘Ether,’ I was kinda hype because he said my name. I was like, ‘I guess I’m in a rap record.’
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“But the response, I wasn’t there for the response. I had landed, Irv Gotti fucked that one up. Every time Irv Gotti got in my business, he fucked shit up … He threw that ‘Ether’ on him. He had him apologizing. The rap that he did was wack — when I heard it, I was pissed.”
Dash also slammed Jay’s apology to Nas for the diss track, on which he claimed to have had sex with the rapper’s baby mother Carmen Bryan in his car and “left condoms on your baby-seat.”
“When he apologized and shit, I was like, ‘No!’” Dame told The CEO Show. “I was hitting him from the thing like, ‘Get off the radio! We looking crazy!’ And Irv did that shit. A Queens n-gga, he gave him — pause — the banana in the tailpipe. That was a Queens thing — he didn’t even see that. Yo Irv, stay out my business.”
Hov’s apology came during an appearance on Hot 97 in December 2001 and was prompted by a phone call from his mother, Gloria Carter, who did not approve of her son’s crude lyrics.
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“Mom put in a call and said, ‘That went too far.’ And she’s never, ever called me about music,” he told Angie Martinez on air. “So I was like ‘Okay, okay, okay. I’ll go shut it down.’”
He added: “Once again, I apologize. I felt like I didn’t think about women’s feelings or [Nas’ former girlfriend’s] feelings, or even my mom. It was really like, ‘Let me meet your level of disrespect with this level of disrespect.’”
