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Jay-Z isn’t just one of rap’s greatest hit-makers; he’s one of hip-hop’s fiercest competitors too. Jigga’s verbal joust with Nas went down in the history books, but God’s Son wasn’t his only opponent. Many fans would be surprised to learn that back in 1998, Jay and Ma$e were engaged in a subliminal battle, where each hurled disses, even if they never said each other’s name. So what started the feud?

“A girl named Arion,” Ma$e said when he appeared on “RapFix Live” on Wednesday as a part of MTV’s “Big and Best of 2012.” “All my beefs are over either some girl that went wrong.”

Diehards may remember Arion from a skit off of Ma$e’s 1997 debutHarlem World, where the two-timing rapper confuses the names of his girlfriends in a dizzying phone exchange. Well it seems Arion was more than just a character on the multiplatinum rap LP. According to Ma$e, she was a member of Hov’s crew whom he had a fling with. The problem was, Arion’s boyfriend was also a member of the Roc-A-Fella crew at the time, so Ma$e’s transgressions didn’t sit well with Hov, or his then partner Dame Dash. “I guess Jay inherited it because me and him never really had a problem,” Ma$e explained. “He said something, I said something back and that was about it.”READ MORE

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