Freeway Says He Never Felt Cool Dissing Nas Back In Day

For those that don't know, Freeway is a rapper, and a part of the old Roc-A-Fella crew...along with his boss, Jay-Z, and other rappers like Beanie Siegel, Memphis Bleek, Young Gunz...at the height of the Nas/Jay-Z war, all the Roc Boys took individual swipes at Nas for the sake of their boss's sake. Fast-forward 11 years, and Freeway is saying he never liked the idea of going at Nas...saying he always loved Nas's music.



"Yeah I got a chance to meet him. Cool story, so everybody knows I dissed Nas a couple times when he was riding for Jay or whatever, but I always loved Nas' music. But I was riding for the team no matter what," Free said in an interview. "So we was at the video shoot for "Roc Boys" after he and Jay got cool. We were leaving out at the same time, so I stopped him and I was like 'Yo I love your music dawg' and he was like 'I love your music too.' So he gave me a pound and we embraced each other. I just seen him in Philly a couple weeks ago performing at the Electric Factory. It hurt but it was like helping me be a man at the same time, like you do things that you don't want to do but you got to do it." (VIBE)





Those were some interesting times for real...I mean the Nas and Jay-Z war. I think it helped both artists. But for real, as a Nas fan as far back as the 90s, I thought Jay had destroyed him with Takeover...cos at the time, Jay was all over TV and radio. I guess that's why Ether is such a great diss track. But, even before Ether, there was a freestyle diss track titled, Stillmatic where Nas took slight jabs at the whole Rocafella crew...check out some lines from the diss track below....the beat used to give me chills... I think it was from one of Rakim's old songs.


Rip the FREEWAY, shoot through MEMPHIS with money bags
Stop in Philly, order cheese steaks and eat BEANS fast
And bring it back up top, remove the fake king of New York
You show off, I count off when you sample my voice
I rule you, before, you used to rap like the FU-SHNICKENS
NAS designed your BLUEPRINT, who you kidding?
Is he H TO THE IZZO, M TO THE IZZO?
For shizzle you phony, the rapping version of SISQO
And that's for certain, you clone me, your wack clothes line
I'd rather Sean John, bore me with your fake coke rhymes
And those times, they never took place, you liar
Un was your first court case, you had no priors
You master fabricated stories of streets and sound slick
Have you surrounded, you and the faggot you down with

While they riding NAS, trying to boost their careers
Corny as CORMEGA, all you Hip-Hop queers
Since ILLMATIC, IT WAS WRITTEN: I AM...NASTRADAMUS
That's the answers to the puzzle I gave you, now here's a promise
My next few albums, instead of projects,
They'll be a difficult test inside the cover for the mind's optics