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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

“Ether”—Nas

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

The Ringer

Music

4.7849 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re breaking down the Nas vs. Jay-Z feud, and Rob has to argue, which makes him deeply uncomfortable. After he breaks down the basic contents of a diss track, he is joined by The Ringer’s Joel Anderson to discuss the history of rap beef and his thoughts on Nas’s career after 'Illmatic.' Host: Rob Harvilla Guest: Joel Anderson Producers: Bobby Wagner, Jonathan Kermah, and Justin Sayles Additional Production Support: Olivia Crerie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone? I'm Nora Prynciotti. And I'm Nathan Hubbard. And we're coming in like a

0:07.4

wrecking ball to announce a brand new series. That's right. It's every single album, Miley Cyrus.

0:13.2

Deep dive with us into the career of one of our most creative and confounding pop stars.

0:18.6

We're starting, of course, with the best of Hannah Montana.

0:21.7

And ending with her brand new album, Something Beautiful, in June.

0:25.4

And don't forget about Miley Cyrus and her dead pets.

0:28.4

We certainly will not be doing that.

0:30.1

So listen now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. I do not enjoy I do not enjoy conflict.

0:55.3

I don't like it when people argue.

0:57.6

It makes me viscerally uncomfortable.

1:00.4

I don't like it when people argue in books.

1:02.9

I don't like it when people argue in sitcoms.

1:05.8

I don't like it when people argue in movies.

1:08.2

You know the part in every romantic comedy when the couple breaks up?

1:12.4

I hate that part. This happens without fail, like 70% of the way through every rom-com ever made.

1:19.4

When there's exactly 20 minutes left in the movie, the couple angrily breaks up. And they say

1:24.3

terrible things to one another. And then they're both alone and miserable and remorseful for like five minutes of screen time

1:31.3

while like a song by Peter Gabriel or Mary J. Blige or The National is playing.

1:37.8

And then the couple triumphantly reconciles in the last 15 minutes in the movie.

1:42.7

But I can't even enjoy that tender, super sweet, climactic, triumphant, romantic comedy reunion

1:50.1

because I'm still recovering from when they angrily broke up 20 minutes ago.

1:54.8

I hate that part.

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