😳Jim Jones Says He’s BETTER Than Nas — The Rap World ERUPTS With Rage 🔥

The spark began innocently enough.

A 22-year-old podcast guest claimed he had never once heard anyone request a Nas record at a party, but had grown up on Jim Jones’ “We Fly High (Ballin’).

” The room laughed, argued, debated — the way hip hop fans always do.

But then Jim himself jumped in.

And instead of laughing it off or showing humility, he doubled down.

On Fat Joe and Jadakiss’s podcast, Jim Jones declared point blank: “I’m better than Nas.

I’ve done more for the culture.

He’s never been this viral in his life.

I’ve out-charted him.

I’m more relevant today.”

Even Fat Joe and Jadakiss — no strangers to outrageous claims — looked stunned.

But Jim wasn’t finished.

He dared the internet to pull up his Billboard Hot 100 entries and compare them to Nas’s.

He argued that his Dipset era influence — mixtape hustle, Harlem swag, pink furs, street anthems — mattered more to the younger generation than anything Nas has ever done.

He even mocked the idea that Nas’s name still meant anything to kids under 25, saying: “My son can’t even name one Nas record.”

That was the moment the floodgates opened.

Twitter, TikTok, YouTube — every platform became a battlefield.

Nas’s fans, long regarded as some of the most loyal and passionate in rap, treated Jim’s words like blasphemy.

They dragged him mercilessly, posting meme after meme of Jim’s “Ballin’” being his only real hit, mocking him for clout-chasing, and reminding him that Nas has a Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy, and a catalog that

spans three decades.

One fan tweeted: “Jim Jones was checking his legacy temperature with the wrong thermometer.”

Another wrote: “Jim Jones has no Illmatic.

No Stillmatic.

No King’s Disease trilogy.

Just audacity.”

And yet, Jim refused to back down.

Instead, he escalated.

On Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, he clarified — but not in a way that cooled the fire.

Yes, he admitted, Nas was lyrical and Illmatic changed his life in high school.

But since then? He claimed Nas faded into irrelevance while Dipset reshaped the streets.

Fashion, mixtapes, slang, the aesthetic of an entire era — according to Jim, that was his doing.

Nas might have had the bars, but Jim argued he had the lifestyle blueprint.

Then he pulled out $450,000 in cash on camera and challenged any rapper — including Nas — to a booth battle.

“I want smoke in the booth.

Put the money up.

Let’s settle this.”

The internet exploded again.

Hashtags trended for days.

Jim Jones basked in the clout, posting on Instagram about how he knew how to “flip negativity into streams.

” Angie Martinez even accused him of trolling, to which Jim laughed: “Everything viral turns digital.

Digital turns into streams.

Streams turn into money.”

But Nas stayed silent.

At least, officially.

Because in late June 2025, a leaked alternate verse from Raekwon’s new track “Omera” hit the web — and Nas’s voice was unmistakable.

The lines? Chilling.

“If the shoe fits, this is for you.

If I said it, I meant it.

” The implication? Crystal clear.

He wasn’t naming names — but fans knew.

The shoe, in this case, was a size Harlem.

Within hours, blogs and hip hop outlets were ablaze: Nas had finally responded.

And not with an interview or a tweet, but with the same weapon he’s wielded for 30 years — a razor-sharp verse that cut without ever saying the name.

The reaction was electric.

Hip hop purists celebrated.

Younger fans scrambled to re-listen to Illmatic, Stillmatic, King’s Disease.

And suddenly, Jim Jones’s claim — meant to go viral — had resurrected one of the fiercest lyrical warriors alive.

But here’s the truth: this beef didn’t start in 2025.

It started decades earlier.

Back in the early 2000s, when Dipset was ascending, Cam’ron publicly mocked Nas, calling him overrated and fake deep.

Nas clapped back, calling Cam’s music whack.

And like any loyal soldier, Jim inherited the beef.

He dropped freestyles, threw subliminals, and mocked “super-conscious rappers.

” The animosity simmered for years, but Nas rarely engaged.

He was too busy going platinum, too busy shaping hip hop’s DNA.

By the 2010s, Jim softened his tone, even admitting Nas was one of the greatest.

But then came the podcasts.

The endless debates about top 5 lists.

The comparisons.

The clickbait era where relevance was measured not in albums, but in algorithms.

And Jim? He knew exactly how to ride that wave.

So when a viral clip of a kid from Atlanta dissing Nas in favor of “Ballin’” hit TikTok, Jim saw his opening.

He grabbed it with both hands, knowing it would set the internet on fire.

And he was right.

But maybe he underestimated the backlash.

Because the fury hasn’t just come from fans.

Quietly, industry voices have weighed in.

Rappers and producers who grew up worshiping Nas have shaded Jim online, reminding everyone that Nas isn’t just a rapper — he’s a cultural icon.

From Illmatic to Grammy wins in the 2020s, Nas has remained relevant through four generations of hip hop.

Few alive can say the same.

Jim’s defenders argue that he’s not talking about lyricism but impact.

That Dipset truly did shape an era of style and mixtapes.

That Nas doesn’t ring off in the club the way “Ballin’” did.

That relevance is subjective, and for a whole wave of kids in the 2000s, Jim was as important as any legend.

But Nas’s defenders see it differently.

They see a hustler leveraging disrespect for attention.

A man with no classic albums throwing shade at one of the most respected catalogs in music history.

A street rapper trying to compare his fleeting virality to timeless artistry.

And maybe Nas sees it that way too.

Because silence, for him, is louder than any podcast appearance.

Until that one leaked verse.

“If the shoe fits, this is for you.”

It wasn’t just a lyric.

It was a warning.

Jim Jones wanted smoke.

He may just get it.

And if he does? Hip hop might finally witness what fans have been craving since 2003 — a real Nas vs.

Jim Jones lyrical war.

One side armed with anthems and hustler charisma.

The other with decades of sharpened poetry and the calm confidence of a man who’s been here before.

For now, though, the internet is eating Jim alive.

The memes won’t stop.

The trolls won’t let up.

Every comment section he enters is flooded with Illmatic quotes, Nas gifs, and reminders that clout fades — but legacy doesn’t.

And that might be the real lesson here.

Because in trying to elevate himself by stepping on Nas’s shoulders, Jim has accidentally reignited Nas’s legend.

Suddenly, the younger generation is Googling Nas, streaming Nas, posting Nas clips.

The very relevance Jim claimed didn’t exist has now been supercharged.

By him.

The irony is brutal.

In 2025, Jim Jones may have gone viral.

But Nas? Nas just reminded everyone why he’s immortal.