Few things in life are guaranteed: death, taxes and Jay-Z assuming Nas’s release date. At the end of this week, the two rappers will be releasing new songs as part of the Judas and the Black Messiah soundtrack. Nas’s new song, “EPMD”, will be released, and Jay-Z is releasing a track with the late Nipsey Hussle as well. Of course, given the timing of their releases, many believe that Hov is trying to outshine Nas once again.


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Recently, there has been a lot of excitement around Nas’s next album, which was released on social media. Much of that noise was silenced when the full tracklist was revealed for the next film, which also features a song by Jay-Z and Nipsey Hussle. Of course, the theories that Jigga is always trying to narrowly steal the attention of his longtime rival, Nas, have started to repeat themselves because of this, despite the fact that they are on the same soundtrack.

What started as a joke on Hip Hop Twitter that Jay-Z would soon release new songs after Nas announced his return came true when his name was also listed on the tracklist, causing laughter among the people who made the joke in the first Place, put.

At this point, it looks like Jay-Z is definitely trying to sabotage Nas. Despite the shadow of rumors, Nas doesn’t seem to agree that Hov is getting him dirty. “This is quite a coincidence,” he said last year, not believing that the shared release dates were intentional. “I think maybe there is an energy that we both have and maybe we work at the same time.”

Do you think Jay-Z goes out of his way to fall on the same days as Nas?