Nas jokes about burying the hatchet with former nemesis Jay-Z on his latest album King’s Disease III

Nas reflected on his long-standing feud with Jay-Z in a song on his latest album King’s Disease III.

The LP, released Friday, delves into the since-squashed beef on the track Thun, where he raps about burying the hatchet and learning to appreciate the craft of their old diss tracks.

‘No beef or rivals, they play Ether on TIDAL / Brothers can do anything if they decide to / In a Range Rover, dissecting bars from Takeover / Sometimes I text Hova like ‘N****, this ain’t over’ . .. smiling!’ he raps, via TMZ.

Reminiscences: Nas, 49, revisited his old feud with Jay-Z, 52, on the track Thun from his latest LP King’s Disease III, released Friday; seen in 2015 in LA

Nas’ latest song references the two main diss tracks traded between the esteemed rappers.

Although Jay-Z has since sold his stake in Tidal, he was previously a major investor in the streaming platform.

Their feud reportedly began in the mid-1990s, when Jay-Z was recording his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt.

Jay-Z (née Shawn Carter) asked Nas (née Nasir Jones) to appear on the song Bring It On, but Nas never showed up to the recording sessions, which apparently angered Jay.

But it wasn’t until Nas released his second album It Was Written that their burgeoning feud got on record.

On the opening track The Message, Nas raps, “Lex with TV sets the minimum,” which seemed to be a reference to Jay previously mentioning a Lexus on Can I Live and having one in his video for Dead Presidents II, according to to distract.

Looking back: ‘No beef or rivals, they play Ether on TIDAL / Brothers can do anything when they decide to / In a Range Rover, dissecting bars from Takeover / Sometimes I text Hova like ‘N****, this ain’t over … laugh!’ he raps, via TMZ; seen in 2014 at Coachella

New Music: Nas’ latest song references the two main diss tracks traded between the esteemed rappers

Nas confirmed this during an interview with Complex from 2016, in which he recalled seeing Jay-Z driving around in a Lexus with a TV in it.

“I then got rid of my Lexus and I was looking for the next thing. It wasn’t a shot at Jay, it was just saying this is the minimum you should have,” he explained.

But it wasn’t until the dawn of the new millennium that the rappers’ feud exploded with the releases of Jay-Z’s The Blueprint and Nas’ Stillmatic.

On The Blueprint’s Takeover album track, Jay-Z references the sampling of Nas’ classic song The World Is Yours on Reasonable Doubt’s Dead Presidents II.

“So yeah, I sampled your voice, you used it wrong / You made it a hotline, I made it a hot song,” he raps.

Hard: In 2001’s The Blueprint, Jay mocked Nas after sampling his earlier song The World Is Yours, before criticizing it for failing to live up to his classic debut Illmatic; seen in August in NYC

‘Use your brain! You said you’ve been in these ten / I’ve been in five, make Nas a little better,” he continues, making sure there’s no doubt who he’s responding to.

‘Four albums in ten years n****? I can divide / That’s one for say two, two of those s***s was to blame / One was no, the other was Illmatic / That’s one hot album every ten years on average / And so it is ( lame!) N* *** change your flow / Your *** is crap, but you’re trying to kick knowledge?’

On Stillmatic, Nas replied with the even more brutal album track Ether.

The song featured several homophobic insults against Jay, whom he called “Gay-Z” while using other slurs, and he also called Jay a misogynist.

Jay later responded with the song Supa Ugly, in which he claimed to have had a multi-year affair with Nas’ then-girlfriend Carmen Bryan.

Nasty: Nas follows it up with the 2001 Stillmatic song Ether, which features numerous homophobic insults against Jay. He also accused him of being a misogynist; seen in September in Atlanta

The actual feud only lasted a few years, and the two seemed to end it in 2005, when Jay-Z brought Nas onstage during a stop in New Jersey from his I Declare War tour to shake hands.

Since then, the two have returned to their sociable ways and have collaborated on multiple songs.

Nas even entered into some sort of business partnership with Jay when he left Columbia Records and joined Def Jam, where Jay was president at the time.

More recently, the two joined forces on DJ Khaled’s 2001 cut Sorry Not Sorry.

Putting it to rest: The actual feud only lasted a few more years, and the two seemed to end it in 2005, when Jay-Z brought Nas onstage during a New Jersey stop of his I Declare War tour to turn things around. to shake ; seen in 2011