Foxy Brown's Relationship With Jay Z and Nas

I don't mean to say she dated them both, but they did have a relationship...she had a working and friendly relationship with the two (Jay Z and Nas). What I have always wondered was how she was a connection between the two legends around 1996-1998, but the two never got to meet. In case you don't know, the beef between Jay and Nas started way before 2001. They had already started throwing subliminal disses at themselves from late 1998.

In a recent interview with DJ Superstar (on Shade 45 radio), Foxy Brown was asked about her relationship with both Jay Z and Nas. Speaking on her working relationship with Jay Z, she said she feels 'Ain't No Nigga', a Jay Z song she was featured on in 1996, made Jay Z who he is.


“Jay knows that that’s the record that made him,” she said. “Serious, we all know that. And that’s a huge and iconic record for him, but he kept it going. He kept busting his guns..."


She also spoke on her relationship with the two one-time enemies- Jay Z and Nas


...It’s so much the people don’t even know. It’s like having a husband and a side jump-off and they both know it about each other. You just have to finagle the whole situation.”



 












Hmm! Who was the Husband? Who was the Jump-off? I know Jay was more like a husband to her back then. They made a lot of songs together. But at the same time, at the same damn period (1996-1998), she was in a group with Nas (The Firm; which also included AZ, Cormega, and later, Nature). How did she joggle the two? It's funny cos around the same time was when Jay Z was trying to get Nas to record his voice on the Dead President song, which had a sample of Nas's 'World Is Mine' song; he was unsuccessful with that. It was also the time Jay and Damon Dash invited Nas and AZ over to record verses for 'Bring It On' off Reasonable Doubt (96) album, and the two didn't show. Nas was also a no-show at the video shoot for 'Dead Presidents'- he was meant to be in the scence where Jay Z, Biggie and AZ were at a table playing monopoly with real money.







This whole 'Husband' and 'Jump-Off' analogy by Foxy brown might be the reason why Jay Z started scheming on bagging Nas's Baby Mama (Carmen Bryant). And he succeed around 1999. In her book, It Ain't No Secret, she (Carmen) said she started fucking around with Jay Z in 1999, and would even sometimes take Nas's Bentley out to see Jay. What a slap in the face.



About 'Ain't No Nigga' making Jay Z; well, it did give him a huge radio buzz at time, but of cos, Jay Z was already solid in the underground. The real song that made Jay Z a super star rapper that he is today is that Annie song...Hard Knock Life (1998). The song was a crossover hip hop song that shot Jay into the spotlight of not just the rap world, but the whole music world.