Freeway talks about taking shots at Nas during JAY-Z beef.
Freeway was the recent guest on VLAD TV, where the rapper talked about dissing Nas during the beef with JAY-Z. The rapper reveals that he used to get called Philly Nas, and it was painful for him to take shots at the Illmatic rapper, but he had to do it because of his loyalty to Hov.
“I love Nas, I gotta just let y’all know that,” said Freeway. “That was painful for me. ‘Cause when I was a young boul, they used to call me the Philly Nas. I had this song and I had this hook, ‘They love to hear the story how the thugs live on worry/ Ducking down the car seats, heat is mandatory.’ Like, I Love Nas.”
“But like I said, When it come time to ride for the team, I’m riding for the team,” he added. “At that time, we in the middle of it. And it’s time to show and prove. And I’m letting people know what it is… I’m riding for the team. You got a problem with Big Homie, you got a problem with all of us.”
After the beef got squashed between Nas and JAY-Z, Freeway gets to tell Nas about his appreciation for him during video shoot of “Roc Boys (And the Winner Is).” “When we got outside, I was like ‘Look Nas, I know I dissed you; but I love your sh*t, I used to listen to your sh*t as a young boy’,” he reveals. “He was like, ‘Free, I love your sh*t too, I ain’t even gon’ front, I be listening to you too.’ I was happy we had that moment and I got to tell him how I really felt. That was major for me.”
In the early 2000s, the feud between Jay-Z and Nas was one of the most prominent in the hip-hop industry. Nas’ “Ether” diss track became a legendary piece of music history. However, four years after its release, the two rappers publicly reconciled during Jay-Z’s ‘I Declare War’ tour at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey in October 2005. Since then, they have collaborated on several occasions.
Now there’s no bad blood between the two hip-hop greats, and Nas reveals he even jokes with JAY-Z about their beef. “No beef or rivals, they playing ‘Ether’ on TIDAL,” Nas raps on the Hit-Boy-produced track ‘Turn’ off ‘King’s Disease II‘. “Brothers can do anything when they decide to / In a Range Rover, dissecting bars from ‘Takeover.’” “Sometimes I text Hova like, ‘Ni**a, this ain’t over,’ laughing,” he adds.
