Recently, Raekwon and Nas teamed up for a collab called "The Omerta," and an alternate version of the track surfaced online. In it, the latter throws multiple jabs at an unnamed opp, who many speculated to be Jim Jones. Some of his fiery bars include, "Got smoke with me? Beef with yourself" and "You got me confused with your fabricated form of delusion / You’re dusty, need to be b***h-smacked."
During an appearance on Fat Joe and Jadakiss' podcast Joe & Jada last month, Jones reacted to a video of a fan comparing him and Nas, and arguing that he's a bigger artist than the Mass Appeal founder.
"As I got in the game, you got to realize that your rivals will be idols," he said at the time. "And not to take anything away from that. I've developed my own style and my own lane that these kids started to gravitate towards the same way that I gravitated towards Nas when I was younger and things like that. It's a whole different generation."
Did Nas Diss Jim Jones?
Jones went on to say that he saw where the fan was coming from. "They don't really know who Nas is. If they 22, he's born in '03," he explained.
Raekwon proceeded to set the record straight about the diss theories during a chat with fans on Instagram Live this month. According to him, Nas' verse was written a month before Jones even made his viral remarks, but he decided to scrap it to avoid any misconceptions.
"Nas did not write that verse for Jim. That was a stray shot Jim got hit with," Raekwon claimed, per HipHop-N-More. "Y'all made it seem like it was for Jim. Nas wasn't dissing Jim. He wasn't dissing him. And the reason why he changed it? Because he knew that at the end of the day, 'damn Chef I gave you this verse months ago, and now all this s**t is popping up' ... I promise y'all he wasn't dissing Jim. This ain't no diss record. And if it was a diss record, why would he put it on my record? 'Cause guess what? I f**k with Jim. He know I f**k with Jim."
