Nas Won JAY-Z Beef, Claims Dame Dash: 'Jay's ['Ether'] Response Was Terrible'

Dame Dash believes that Nas was the outright winner of his beef with JAY-Z, despite his previous affiliation with Hov.

During a recent appearance on the That’s F***ed Up Podcast with A.D. Dolphin, Joshua Engle and Alejandro G, the Roc-A-Fella co-founder reflected on the legendary feud and said that JAY-Z’s response to “Ether,” “Super Ugly,” was “terrible.”

“Jay’s response was terrible,” Dame Dash said. “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.’

“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.”

He continued: “I was coming from doing a Rocawear ad on a private [jet]. I had just landed from like Arizona and I’m listening to this shit on the radio like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ So I was like, ‘Go to the fucking Baseline [Studios],’ you know, ’cause I wanna know what happened. I’m like, ‘What the fuck happened?’

“And they in there high-fiving and shit. I’m like, ‘What you high-fiving for? This shit is wack.’ This n-gga talking about other n-ggas’ business and shit, like we don’t do that. And it was Irv. I was like, ‘Irv Gotti.’ I called Irv, told him don’t ever get in my business again bro, like, ‘What you doing? You not about war.'”

He added: “You see how his wars go with rap — he doesn’t win it. He’s not a general like that. So it was like, stay out of my business. And Irv keeps talking about me all the time, like stop talking about me, Irv.”

Dash clarified that he doesn’t have beef with Irv Gotti; the Murder Inc. founder just “gets on his nerves.” He also revealed that he’s yet to have a proper talk with JAY-Z about their falling-out.

Irv Gotti previously spoke about JAY-Z’s “Super Ugly” in 2019, arguing “Ether” and “Takeover” should be the songs that get compared.

“We never thought that they was gonna take ‘Super Ugly’ and ‘Ether’ and compare them,” he told VladTV. “It was some rap battle shit — you know how you rhyme off somebody’s beat. So I put it together and he shitted, and we didn’t think nothing of it.

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“We didn’t understand how big it was. Like, if y’all wanted to play two records, you should play ‘Ether’ and the ‘Takeover!’”

Dame Dash and JAY-Z’s beef stems from the dissolution of Roc-A-Fella Records in the 2000s. During an interview last year, Dash opened up about feeling betrayed by Hov.

“Yeah, all that, but we were friends,” he told The Art of Dialogue. “Like, how would you feel if your brother just betrayed you for money? Would it hurt?

“That’s the algorithm. It wasn’t surprising ’cause that’s what always happens. We were breaking the algorithm, we were doing it a different way and sticking together, but that’s what always happens. They make one sell out the other, their friend, divide and conquer, that’s a normal story.”

He added: “That was my n-gga, like we never argued, nothing. That’s why I didn’t know it was coming. That was some real slick shit. I was like, ‘That n-gga’s cold.’”