Fivio Foreign didn’t listen to much Nas growing up.
The Brooklyn rapper recently sat down with Jim Jones as the Harlem rapper launches his new YouTube channel IFC Factory and podcast Artist 2 Artist. They were having a conversation about streaming and trying to take advantage of when a moment goes viral before Jones’ situation with Nas earlier this year came up.
“I’m not saying that the man is wack or he’s not a legend,” Fivio said after admitting that he grew up listening to Chicago rappers like Chief Keef. “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 — I like ‘One Mic.’”
Jim then responded by reiterating that he was a Nas fan and can recite bars and name songs from QB legend’s catalog.
“That’s what I want the people to know — but I can ‘cause Nas was my era. I came up f—kin’ with Nas. I know the Nas sh—t. But moving forward, I started a whole new era and a whole new genre and a generation of people…I just be doing me.”
The convo then shifted to Jim asking Fivio which rappers influenced him the most and again he mentioned Sosa and said he was “infatuated” with the Chicago drill scene.
Both rappers found themselves on the wrong side of going viral this year. First, Fivio went viral when he and Lil Tjay got into a situation with rising streamer PlaqueBoyMax over smoking weed in an Airbnb during a livestream. Then, Jim Jones found himself defending his legacy after a college student said on a podcast that the Dipset member was more influential to him than Nas was.
You can watch the full conversation below.