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During a recent interview with Bally Sports,Memphis Bleek was asked about the possibility of Nas going head-to-head with JAY-Z for a Verzuz battle, which he quickly shot down.

September 6, 2021 There was a time when a friendly battle between JAY-Zand Nas wouldnt have even been a thought. The two legends were embroiled in one of Hip Hops most infamous beefsthroughout the late 90s and early 2000s. In 2005, the two Hip Hop titans publicly reconciled at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey during Hovs I Declare War Tour. But while speaking to MC Serch for The Serch Says Podcastin August 2020, DJ Cassidy recalled DJing at a Def Jam holiday retreat in 2006 at Connecticuts Foxwoods Resort Casino, a place he likened to Atlantic City, where they were able to put their differences aside and put a permanent end to their feud. At the time, Im doing all of Jays parties and Jay was the president of Def Jam and L.A. Reid was CEO, he told Serch in an exclusive clip obtained by HipHopDX. So, Jay and L.A. had already signed Nas to Def Jam and this was a big deal. I think Nas was coming from Columbia, so this was a huge deal because the JAY-Z and Nas battle had taken over the world. Several years later, Def Jam signs Nas while JAY-Z is the president of Def Jam, so this was an end of an era, the end of their beef, the two greats coming together one as the label head, one as the artist. Embed from Getty Images DJ Cassidy continued, So Def Jam has an annual retreat over the holidays where all the staff and some of the artists, and they have parties. I did the opening night or the closing night party I m on a stage at a casino restaurant and were not talking a ballroom were talking like the P.F. Changs at the casino. On one side of the room is Jay, on one side is Nas. I led myself into this epic 30-minute back-and-forth between Jay records and Nas records, and not just the hits. Like Memory Lane, so on and so on. If my memory serves me correctly, the space between them started to get smaller and smaller. Read more