Is Jay Z a Nas Stan?

So, do you think Jay Z is a Nas stan? By the way, a 'stan' stands for an obsessive fan. I have always known, even when they were beefing that Jay was at least a fan of Nas's music. Nas would probably never attain the level of commercial success Jay Z is currently enjoying, but people shouldn't forget that Nas was selling Gold and platinum with two albums before Jay dropped his first album. Anyway, while reading the comment section of hiphopdx, I got this very interesting list of reasons why Jay Z was and still is a Nas stan. Peep them below...and yea, I did the background check on them, and they are all accurate. I knew most of them for years already.

1. Jay-Z begged Nas and AZ to be on "Bring It On" song (in 1996) off the Reasonable Doubt album. But Nas turned it down.

2. Jay-Z begged Nas to be on Dead Presidents, Nas turned him down so he sampled him.

3. Jay-Z sampled Nas voice AGAIN on Crack Game/Rap Game or whatever the fuck.

4. Jay-Z used to rap like the fu-schnickens but tried to switch his shit up when he heard Illmatic

5. The fact that Jay even knew Nas' child's mother is stalker-ish

6. Jay-Z said "Who's the best MC, Jay-Z, Biggie and NAS" before the beef

7. Jay-Z admitted to listening to ALL of Nas albums in Takeover

8. Jay-Z randomly showed up at the recording of "Black Republican" and put himself on that track (No, it wasn't a planned collab)

9. Jay-Z had AZ in the video for Dead Presidents. (AZ is Nas's long time friend, and rap partner from back in the mid 90s)

10. Jay-Z started working with people like Frank Ocean and Jay Electronica after NAS shouted them out and worked with them first

11. Jay-Z tried to get Nas on the Empire State song AND REMIX but Nas refused both

12. Jay-Z invited Nas to perform at the Carnegie Hall show recently