Nas Reacts to Fans Using Jay-Z Beef to Fuel NYC Casino Competition: ‘No One Has Any Control Over Things Like That’

“Ether” lives forever.

Some fans person been lightheartedly reviving the Jay-Z vs. Nas feud arsenic the brace of rap deities look disconnected with opposing NYC casino bids.

Resorts World’s casino bid — which Nas partnered with — was approved by the Community Advisory Committee to bring an expanded $5.5 cardinal casino task to Queens, portion Roc Nation’s connection for a Times Square casino was changeable down by the CAC.

Fans leaned into the erstwhile rivals’ conflict erstwhile pitting the brace of opposing casinos against 1 another, with Nas taking the win, arsenic Resorts World’s connection conscionable needs support by the State Gaming Commission portion Jay’s alongside SL Green and Caesars’ bid is each but dead.

Nas sat down with Rolling Stone earlier this week, wherever helium reflected connected fans bringing his feud with Jay-Z backmost up with the brace of rap legends arsenic portion of the bidding for casino licenses successful NYC.

“It is conscionable a happening that immoderate radical are going to speech about,” helium stated. “No 1 has immoderate power implicit things similar that. I inactive survey Rakim and Big Daddy Kane. Some rap fans conscionable similar to spell disconnected connected those things from clip to time. That’s it.”

Even Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. took a changeable astatine Jay-Z pursuing the Resorts World bid approval.

“There’s a taxable successful Queens, and I cognize that Nas was a portion of this: Queens get the money. Sorry, Jay-Z, we triumph again,” Richards quipped. “You tin fto the Brooklyn borough president cognize that I nonstop my regards to him.”

Of course, Jay and Nas person agelong squashed their beef. Tensions successful the ’90s reached a boiling constituent successful the aboriginal 2000s with the Queensbridge native’s “Stillmatic Freestyle,” which was followed by Hov’s “Takeover” and Nas’ “Ether.”

As for the casino, Resorts World NYC received unanimous support with a 6-0 ballot from the CAC connected Sept. 25. Resorts World officials are looking to unfastened the revamped Southeast Queens casino by July 2026, and the Aqueduct Park task is slated to beryllium 1 of the largest successful the U.S. astatine 350,000 quadrate feet.

Resorts World is acceptable to besides unfastened a marque caller 7,000-person capableness amusement venue, portion NBA champion and Queens autochthonal Kenny “The Jet” Smith volition assistance successful bringing a sports analyzable to the Resorts World campus.

The ambitious task hopes to bring 24,000 caller jobs to Queens and $1 cardinal successful caller gross during its archetypal twelvemonth of operation.