151: "Takeover" vs. "Ether" (with FDSignifier!!)

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

It is time to revisit one of the most storied rap beefs of all time! Between Pac vs. Biggie and Kendrick vs. Drake, we had Jay-Z vs. Nas, an absolutely vicious rap battle that seems almost quaint now. This was already debated to death in 2001 but we're going to relitigate it, so who actually had the best diss, Jay-Z's "Takeover" or Nas's "Ether"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.
0:01.7	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:03.0	And this is Song versus Song.
0:05.8	Today, I think this is a first for us.
0:08.7	We are relitigating history.
0:11.7	We are doing two songs that have already been put against each other and have, I feel like, been debated long before us.
0:21.5	We are definitely not the first person to talk about these two songs in contrast with each other.
0:25.7	We are doing Jay-Z's takeover versus Nas' Ether.
0:32.8	Nas' Ether. That's a good song. We all agree.
0:36.7	It is.
0:41.1	And here's the thing. We are not prepared. We have a guess in here because, uh, we are not prepared. Everybody in your audience
0:48.2	just breathed the sigh of relief. No, they're going to see your name in the... Okay.
0:57.0	In the title and it's going to be... Everyone's going to click on.
0:58.1	I was like, whew.
1:00.6	We have the one, the only FD Signifier from YouTube.
1:05.5	Oh, thank you so much for coming out.
1:07.2	We had to get someone in here because,
1:12.3	Lena, do you want to tell us how you prepared for this particular episode that you just told us? What do you mean?
1:18.3	No, what did you say? What? I said that I watched Steel Magnolius this morning and I felt
1:24.4	that there was a concrete comparison to be drawn between the beef between
1:28.8	Olympia Dukakis and, wait, who is it? I already lost it. Like Shirley McLean's characters
1:35.5	in Steele Magnolias and the beef between Jay-Z and us. I was like, I was like, it's the same thing,
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