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Why Nas Randomly Dissed One of the Biggest Pop Stars in the World in 2020

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Nas was never the type to get into a lot of beef. Outside the infamous Jay-Z feud in the early 2000s that spawned the historic “Takeover” and “Ether”, it was rare for him to go back and forth. Even when Cam’ron and the rest of Dipset invoked his family in different freestyles and mixtapes, he largely shrugged them off.

That’s what makes his random stray shot at Doja Cat all the more random. In 2020, Nas released “Ultra Black” from his Grammy Award-winning album with Hit-Boy, King’s Disease. There, he rapped, “Sometimes I’m over-black, even my clothes are black/Cash Money with the white tee and the soldier rag/We going ultra Black, unapologetically Black/The opposite of Doja Cat,........

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