While on Drink Champs recently, Jim Jones revealed that he never had the chance to have a conversation with Nas following the beef between him and Cam'ron back in 2002.
"I never got to sit down and have a conversation with Nas and things like that. I had called you about it. That was like still one of the people that I never got to have a conversation, you know, throughout my history of rap and things like that," Jim Jones said. "I think I would love to have a conversation with Nas. I wouldn't know if he knows it, but Nas was one of my all-time favorite rappers coming up, since 'Live at the BBQ.'"
Jones added that Nas "changed the whole cadence of rap" and influenced other greats such as Jay-Z and Fat Joe. However due to his allegiance to Cam'ron, Jones knew he could no longer hold Nas in such high esteem.
"I understood that as soon as we got signed to the game, I understood that nobody was no longer my idol anymore," Jones explained. "They were my rivals, and we had to treat it as that, and that's the way we attacked the game. Like it was nobody bigger than the set, that's something that Cam was serious about. You know, as crazy as Cam could be at some times, he's very smart."
