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On “Destroy & Rebuild,” Nas looks to destroy all weak rappers from his neighborhood of Queensbridge in order to rebuild his community. At the time of this song’s recording, Nas feuded with numerous rappers, including a few from Queensbridge—from start to end, Nas explicitly takes aim at Cormega, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, and Nature of The Firm.

Nas' feud with Cormega dates back to the recording of his 1996 studio album, It Was Written—Cormega was featured on the album posse cut, “Affirmative Action,” with AZ and Foxy Brown. The trio would later be known as The Firm, managed by Nas. However, Cormega was ousted from the group due to financial problems, which led to a decade long feud between the two—Cormega released several diss tracks aimed at Nas, most notably 1998’s “Never Personal” and 2001’s “Thun & Kicko,” which featured Prodigy and led to the feud between Prodigy and Nas. Nature, who replaced Cormega in The Firm, had a strained relationship with Nas following the group’s separation in 1999.

The title of the song hints to the teachings of The Five-Percent Nation, an off-shoot of the Nation of Islam. Five-Percenters widely believe in a numerical system called the Supreme Mathematics, where the number eight represents “Build or Destroy,” which also ties in with the album’s tracklist—this is the eighth song on Stillmatic if the intro is excluded. In January 2005, Nas told Today that he was inspired by the teachings of The Five-Percent Nation while he was growing up in Queensbridge:

As I got older I got into The Five-Percent Nation, and then that pushed me toward Islam. But [I’m not any] religion…

For the instrumental, Nas enlisted the help of New York’s Baby Paul of Da Beatminerz. It’s also worth noting that Nas interpolates the chorus from Boogie Down Productions‘ 1987 diss track, “The Bridge Is Over,” aimed at the borough of Queens and Queensbridge’s Juice Crew.

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