Who do you think won the battle between Nas vs Jay-Z?

After all this dust has settled... Blueprijt brought sampling back and introduced us to Kanye who is the definitive artist of the hip-hop game's entire style in the modern era along with Lil Wayne. Jay-Z got Ethered, literally in terms of battle, but became top dog at Def Jam, instituted things like Def Jam Left to expose acts like The Roots at pivotal points, signed Nas to Def Jam, made his enemy his friend, is so much more well off financially, has Beyonce, and after his last album getting a huge hit for NY in a crossover, "broadway" sense with Alicia Keys on Empire State of Mind... and now he's the Frank Sinatra of rap... it would seem that Jay-Z won. ...however, while Nas is paying Kelis child support, his career of hits and misses, and style changes has become a focused, and cohesive catalogue of content, due to Untitled. The importance of that album, and the depth of thought behind it is so focused and still yet untapped and unrecognized... I think it tied together everything about Nas and made the hypocrite into a mosaic of thoughts and eras in hip-hop history and NY lyricism. That album, that honesty and revolutionary thought is a contribution to music, hip-hop, culture, and society at a pivotal moment in time (right before Obama's win) is a far greater achievement than the material wealth, crossover status, and celebrity solidarity that Jay-Z has achieved IMO - with the Nas and Damien Marley album coming out, I think Nas is on a whole different echelon than Jay-Z is musically and artistically, and it will round out his career to where to statements like "1 hot album every ten year average" from Takeover are ridiculous, pointless, and archaic ways of thinking about success in hip-hop.

In my opinion Nas won this battle rather easily, think about it this way which song hit harder, supa-ugly(jay-z's response to ether) or ether. The answer is simple ether was by far a better song so much so jay-z admitted the battle was unfair and Nas was on another level (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffDDbEJAEIg) Not only is Nas better with his diss tracks but with his non-diss tracks as well and to be honest jay-z shouldnt be honored as a hip hop legend for the reason that he stole half his material from biggie anyway

Well it is hard to say. but for some reason I am wanting to say Nas. But they're both like whatever to me. Both, Nas and Jay-Z's debuts albums are the best from their career. They think they are better than they really are. Reasonable Doubt and Illmatic.

i dont know i only listen to good rappers lol

Nas won the battle. In Jayz's responce he talked more about baby moms then he did Nas.