‘I Can’t Sit There and Say a Nas Bar to Yo…
The Jim Jones vs. Nas debate—started by Capo himself—continues.
On Sunday (Aug. 17), Jones debuted his new podcast, Artist 2 Artist, where he sat down with New York rapper Fivio Foreign. At one point, Jones brought up fellow New Yorker Nas, which prompted Fivio to share his own take on the venerated Queens artist.
“I’m not saying that the man is wack, he’s not a legend,” Fivio said at around the 46:30 minute mark. “I got a song with the n***a—I got a song on the album and the album got a Grammy. But I can’t sit there and say a Nas bar to you or a song.”
He then proceeded to name a song. “I like ‘One Mic,’” he said, referencing the 2001 Stillmatic album cut.
“But I can,” Jones responded, indicating that he can name songs and albums from Nas’ catalog. “I understand. That’s what I want the people to know—but I can ‘cause Nas was my era. … I came up fucking with Nas. I know the Nas shit. … But moving forward, I started a whole new era in a whole new genre and a generation of people. I just be doing me.”
The discourse surrounding Capo and Nas began in late June, when Jones appeared on Fat Joe and Jadakiss’ podcast and boasted about his achievements.
“They forget, I got a hell of a catalog. Gold records, platinum records. … Check my track record. Then check everybody else track record,” he said. “If you want to go to the Billboard entries, pull up Nas’ Billboard entries and pull up my Billboard entries.”
Jones, as a solo artist, has had two of his songs reach the Billboard Hot 100, one of which made it into the Top 10. Nas has 27 Hot 100 entries and two Top 10 hits — though in Jones’ defense, Nas was a featured artist, not the primary one, on both of them, while Jones was the sole artist on his No. 5 hit, 2006’s “We Fly High.”
Jones has nine albums that have charted on the Billboard 200 albums chart, while Nas has 24. Of Nas’ entries on the album chart, 16 landed in the Top 10, and six reached No. 1.
The Jim Jones/Nas debate continued days after the Dipset capo’s initial statement. On Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson’s podcast, Nightcap, Sharpe challenged Jones.
“Were you smoking when you said you were better than Nas?” Sharpe asked, which prompted Jones to declare that he’s “way more influential than Nas.”
Jones was once again asked about the comparison on the BagFuel podcast, where he said he made Nas go “viral.” Jones added, “He’s never been talked about like this ever in his life.”
As Fivio pointed out, he and ASAP Ferg appeared on Nas’ song “Spicy” from his 2020 album, King’s Disease, which won the Grammy for Best Rap Album in 2021.
Fivio also recently hopped on Jones’ 2024 song, “Cinema,” alongside Dyce Payso and Keen Streetz.