Though Nelly hasn't been quite so active as he once was back in the early millennium, his fans have remained unwaveringly loyal to the St. Louis legend. So much so than when news broke that A$AP Rocky had reportedly taken credit for popularizing Nike's iconic Air Force 1 sneaker, the Lunatic army came through in defiant droves. It didn't take long for a stern reminder to be issued by hundreds of voices, many of whom were quick to point to Nelly, and by extension the St. Lunatics, as the true innovators in that department.

Lest we forget that in 2002, Nelly launched his sophomore album Nellyville with the classic single "Air Force 1s." Thanks to an infectious chorus heavy on the drawl, the Nike shoe quickly became a hot ticket item -- especially for suburban fans who were only just delving into the world of sneaker culture. Clearly, the fans didn't take kindly to Rocky's presumptuous claim, as a perusal through Twitter has indicated.

One revelation can make you see a song in an entirely different light. Way back in the Spring of 2003, Joe Budden gave the world his classic single “Pump It Up” that has been played hundreds of millions of times worldwide. The song is still a party favorite year-round, but unbeknownst to fans, Just Blaze reveals that the track was about…self-love...prior to a few lyrical changes that ended up being the finished product.

Just Blaze produced Joe Budden’s “Pump It Up” and during a recent appearance on Sole Collector, he talked about the beloved single. “You know the original version of ‘Pump It Up’ was about masturbation?” Just Blaze randomly asked. “You know how in the second verse he’s like, ‘My jump off doesn’t care if I go out so much.’ It originally was, ‘My hand doesn’t worry if I go out so much.” The hosts added that “Joe hates that song now” but also said, “That’s so Joe.”

“Maybe that explains why I loved it so much as a teenager,” one of the hosts added. Check out the full episode of Sole Collector with Just Blaze and groove to Budden’s “Pump It Up” below.

Jay-Z and Nas spent years as embittered rivals, trading Titianesque blows in one of hip-hop’s most evenly matched beefs of all time, only to bury the hatchet in 2005 during Jay’s “I Declare War” tour. Since then the pair of moguls have linked up on a variety of tracks, including “Black Republicans” in 2006, “Success” in 2007, and “BBC” in 2013. Dedicated fans know there’s still one that got away, a Just Blaze-produced banger called “The Scientist,” which first surfaced back in 2009 — a timeline that places Nas firmly in Untitled territory.

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Though the Jay-Z-assisted track never arrived in full (for reasons unknown), a snippet of Hov’s verse recently surfaced. Over a nostalgic  Just Blaze produced instrumental, itself a reminder of a lost era, Jay sounds comfortably in his mafioso bag. “Hovito Brigante, my own people that got me, that’s what I get for snoozin’, moving too sloppy,” he spits. “I’m back brilliant, my brains is back in the building, the lights back on the fridge you dig?” 

The news came as a surprise to Nas die-hards, many of whom heard snippets of “The Scientist” from a while back and assumed it was a solo joint. Though some speculate the track was meant for The Lost Tapes 2, others seem to think it’s destined to arrive in full at one point or another, especially with news of both a Hov-heavy Jay Electronica album and a new project from Escobar himself. While we can’t post the snippet on this page, you can check it out YouTube or right here. 

At this stage, Eminem and Lord Jamar have become entwined in a shared destiny. Despite nursing a genuine dislike for one another, neither seems particularly willing to turn the other cheek and let bygones be bygones. In Em’s case, he’s taken to songs like “Fall” and “I Will” to air his grievances with the Brand Nubian rapper-turned-podcaster. In Jamar’s, he’s opted to sit down with DJ Vlad and poke fun at both Slim’s musicality and fanbase. At least, until now. In his latest appearance on Vlad TV, Jamar mused on the possibility of getting the band back together for a diss track. 

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“Premier!” he calls, after teasing the possibility of retaliating on wax. “Send me that joint! Premier, who else. How about Just Blaze? If you not scared, I’ll take one. MF DOOM? I’m just saying.” When Vlad points out that Dr. Dre wouldn’t be a ble option, Jamar doesn’t appear overtly concerned. “I can’t say I would necessarily want one from Dre,” he shrugs. “I don’t feel that’s necessarily my style. The people I named right now are more in my lane.” 

“I was going to say Daringer, but he’s running with them,” says Jamar. “That’s kinda in that lane.” Both Vlad and Jamar proceed to conclude that Primo is the best option, pledging the producer to move “for hip-hop. A lot of trash has been put out right now. The bar is very low. Between what Eminem put out and what Nick Cannon put out, I think it would not be hard to surpass that.”