It's official: Everybody Loves Jay-Z. Even Nas!

The stunned crowd of thousands inside the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, NJ, screamed in approval as Jay and his former nemesis Nas appeared onstage together, signifying that two of rap's biggest names had finally deaded their once-bitter beef.

"A lot of ni***s is makin' money and still f***in' mad at the world!" Nas said. "We [are] savin' the East Coast with your help."

Nas performed the hook to Jay's "Dead Presidents", followed by his own classic, "The World Is Yours." Jay-Z exited briefly and gave his counterpart time to rock his classic songs like "It Ain't Hard to Tell" and "New York State of Mind."

Jay-Z rejoined Nas onstage and said, "Damn, this is some s**t right here!" Nas spun into "Made You Look'" with Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs, who also performed "Hate Me Now" with the Queens superstar.

"We all in this s**t together," Jay-Z said after the songs. "Y'all witnessed history. Everybody in this building is a part of history. All that beef s**t is wack."

Get that: Nas performed the hook to 'Dead Presidents'. I guess he made it a hot rhyme, and Jay made it a hot song, right? I can't help but feel that Nas has really come to be at peace with himself and his career now - see also the line about "Nas, what the fans want is Illmatic still" on 'We Major' - and I do wonder if Kelis is largely to be thanked for this. Not on much evidence other than the idea that being married to Kelis would probably make a man like Nas a lot less tense. And note that Nas and Puffy performed the song they once fell out over. It really warms your heart.

(This via me_aulnes.)