![]() Large Professor expanded on this in a further interview with DJ Vlad in 2019, stating that the full lyric reads "Sorry Aaliyah / I'm sorry it was you in the plane crash / It should've been Jay." Release and aftermath In an 2012 interview with hip-hop website ThisIs50, fellow rapper Large Professor claimed that an earlier version of "Ether" was produced by Swizz Beatz and featured even more offensive lyrics, including a line where Nas allegedly raps "It should've been you in that plane crash", a reference to the 2001 plane crash that caused the death of American singer Aaliyah, which occurred during the early stages of the Jay-Z–Nas feud. ![]() Browz had previously offered the production to Kyambo "Hip-Hop" Joshua, Jay-Z's A&R manager at the time, who turned it down. Browz was unaware of how his production would be used until Nas invited him to the studio to play him the completed song for the first time. The backing track of "Ether", produced by a then relatively unknown Ron Browz, found its way to Nas after Browz's manager, who worked at the Def Jam Recordings offices, bumped into Nas' travel agent and pleaded with her to give the production to Nas. The introduction to the song features a distorted sample of Tupac Shakur saying "Fuck Jay-Z". ![]() Nas also riffs on the chorus of " Takeover", rapping "R-O-C, get gunned up and clapped quick" in the same cadence as the "Takeover" line "R-O-C, we running this rap shit". The song's chorus is built around the phrase "I will not lose", an allusion to Jay-Z's song "U Don't Know". Nas references Jay-Z's lyrics at several points in "Ether". Several lines in the song also feature homophobic insults: Nas refers to Jay-Z as "Gay-Z", and describes him as "a dick-riding faggot" with "dick-sucking lips". ![]() Elsewhere in the song, Nas questions Jay-Z's originality, accusing him of rehashing B.I.G.'s lyrics and claiming that Jay-Z's album The Blueprint was imitating the title of Boogie Down Productions' 1989 album, Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop. Jay-Z is also mocked for his appearance in Jaz-O's "Hawaiian Sophie". The lyrics go on to criticize Jay-Z's appearance, and speculates that his misogynistic lyrics stem from resentment against women who once called him ugly. and alleging that Eminem "murdered" Jay-Z on their collaboration "Renegade". Nas also asserts that Jay-Z is a weaker rapper than his contemporaries, challenging his claims to have surpassed B.I.G. Instead, Nas describes Jay-Z as a sycophantic copycat who attempted to latch onto a string of mentors, including Jaz-O, Big Daddy Kane, Irv Gotti, and the Notorious B.I.G. Throughout the song, Nas questions the veracity of Jay-Z's drug lord persona and argues that he was never involved in crime. The lyrics of "Ether" primarily insult Jay-Z for a variety of reasons. Nas has described the song title as a reference to a superstition about ghosts disliking the fumes from ether, explaining that he desired "to affect with my weapon and get to his soul" in a similar fashion. "Ether" has been called a "classic" diss track and the "wildest" in hip hop history by music publications. The song was a response to Jay-Z's " Takeover", released earlier that year. " Ether" is a diss song by American rapper Nas, from his 2001 album Stillmatic.
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