During an interview with the Tax Season podcast taken last year, it’s now being revealed that N.O.R.E hung up on Jay-Z after he called him about a supposed altercation, that’s now infamous, that took place in the late 1990s between Fat Joe’s Terror Squad and Jay Z’s Roc-A-Fella crew. Hit the jump for the full story!!
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Although not being at the incident, N.O.R.E shed some light on the notorious rumor that Terror Squad’s Big Pun hit Jay-Z over the head with a bottle, when Hov called him from an unknown number the day after Thanksgiving last year:
“I picked it up and he said, ‘Yo,’ And I said, ‘Yo.’ He said, ‘Yo, this is Jay.’ ‘Jay who?’ for arguments purposes, ‘Jay who?’ He said, ‘Jay Z.’ And I said, ‘Whoever this is need to work on their Jay Z accent, because you sound super white. There’s no way you could be Jay Z.’ So I hung up.”
After N.O.R.E hangs up he gets another call, this time from an unblocked number and picked up:
“He said, ‘So I hit [Memphis] Bleek for your number,’ I knew it was him. I was like, ‘You can’t care about this shit. Like, this is really you. You can’t be taking your time out the day after Thanksgiving and calling me about something I did on a podcast.’ He was like, ‘Nah. I don’t care. I don’t care about the world knowing, N.O.R.E. You’re my nigga. I care about you knowing.’ So I said, ‘How do we fix this?’ He said, ‘Nah. You don’t need to fix it. But if the interview ever comes up again…’”
After the phone call, N.O.R.E says he kept Hov’s number but never plans on using it.
“I locked the number in. I’m never using it. Let me just throw that out there right now. Never using it. I know the Secret Service will knock on my door. ‘You text? Leave Hov alone.’ ‘No I didn’t text. I’m sorry.’”
