Fam I just could never take Jah Rule, seriously. He was never about that life.
He’ll be fine. He knows how to craft songs, hit songs, and his core audience doesn’t care about rap battles.
Its not about that fam
JA Rule was KING period hands down with street love and crossover AT THE TIME
and then G Unit just... BOOM
sidebar: I SWEAR if Ja DMX and Jay ACTUALLY completed the Murder Inc tag team project?
that 50 Cent thing would NOT have worked as much as it did to dead Ja career.
Come back to the pod Rory
Ish is good at a lot of topics, just not the rap music topics.
Can't replace Ish
Nah this is revisionist history.
Ja still went platinum and then gold in the middle of all of that.
Ja and Murder Inc. fell off because people were tiring of the fake tough, wanna be Pac/Suge/Death Row shit they got on. The nigga Ja literally got on the radio and referred to himself as the 2nd coming of Pac.
50 was in the perfect place with the perfect team and back story of beefing with and being shot by their associates to take advantage.
Nah this is revisionist history.
Ja still went platinum and then gold in the middle of all of that.
Ja and Murder Inc. fell off because people were tiring of the fake tough, wanna be Pac/Suge/Death Row shit they got on. The nigga Ja literally got on the radio and referred to himself as the 2nd coming of Pac.
50 was in the perfect place with the perfect team and back story of beefing with and being shot by their associates to take advantage.
Damn.
You NOT wrong
But the G Unit thing made it WORSE
Much like how all the haters came out the shadows to stab up Drake they came for Ja
Like you said there was already blood in the water but the streets and then the world decided Ja was NOT COOL ANYOMRE
Absolutely.
I think the difference is Drake has been far more successful for like 15 years where Ja and all of Murder Inc. were lucky if they got 6 solid years at the top.
Plus being in this internet age when it comes to something like this works in his favor since peoples memories last about as long as it takes to heat up a hot pocket.
If he gets a team of producer's together now on the low to begin working on an album with nothing but potential hits he'll be ready to re-emerge months from now when nobody is expecting it.
Plus lets be honest everyone loves a comeback story.
Yeah, he forced this jawn to start selling pussy and kept all the bread. When trial came up she moved out of Toronto, refused to come back, and refused to testify. Folks in Canada been saying someone got in her ear that it would best for her health if she refused. So Baka was able to plead out to the lesser charge of assault since jawn wouldn't testify.
How you keep a dude like that around? Why would you put a dude like that on?
He also called himself Bishop.Nah this is revisionist history.
Ja still went platinum and then gold in the middle of all of that.
Ja and Murder Inc. fell off because people were tiring of the fake tough, wanna be Pac/Suge/Death Row shit they got on. The nigga Ja literally got on the radio and referred to himself as the 2nd coming of Pac.
50 was in the perfect place with the perfect team and back story of beefing with and being shot by their associates to take advantage.
Who's music do you think aged better? Was just wondering to myself a couple days ago. Had Spotify on playing some random shit an a Ja song came on. Thinking to myself "I'm more prone to listen to a Ja track these days than a 50 song" when it was the complete opposite back in the day.G Unit is the Future dropped on June 2002
Ja dropped Last Temptation later that year which went Platinum of course
but never went Platinum album again. His features plummeted too
And that Blood in My Eye directed at 50 was a big disappointment.
He came back in 2004 with a gold but...
Get Rich or Die Trying dropped in 2003 near diamond.
50 did damage that aint revisionist history
He only had street love in his hood
Its not about that fam
JA Rule was KING period hands down with street love and crossover AT THE TIME
and then G Unit just... BOOM
sidebar: I SWEAR if Ja DMX and Jay ACTUALLY completed the Murder Inc tag team project?
that 50 Cent thing would NOT have worked as much as it did to dead Ja career.
Yeah, that was odd of him to say. But he's also trying to paint out some conspiracy theory as if it's Diddy trying to take him down for criticizing him. All this shit is weirdo behavior.
Who's music do you think aged better? Was just wondering to myself a couple days ago. Had Spotify on playing some random shit an a Ja song came on. Thinking to myself "I'm more prone to listen to a Ja track these days than a 50 song" when it was the complete opposite back in the day.
He only had street love in his hood
And X didn’t like Jeffrey
oh I know.
I mean the records. That cash money cliq mic geronimo early era. Those murder inc records banged EVERYWHERE we cannot front. And the remixes? And the girls loved it so we wanted to be where the girls were. Those songs were hitting.
Till they didn't anymore.
Southside.
Pssssst....
Tupac wouldn't have liked Jeffery either
Just between us Pac probably had MORE in common with Aubrey. That young actor dancer musical poetry a lot of girls around very close to his momma very sensitive? no real dad around feeling like an outsider being a chameleon always wanting to fit in very smart code switching hanging with tough guys trying to prove himself?
Just a thought.
You summed up my point with that paragraph about identity...^^^^ hmmmm...
I agree overall especially since 50 himself took Ja blueprint and artists even today ahem Drake followed suit
I'm a 50 fan since day one so I'm too biased to comment but Ja made great records period. The problem was not only did he lose his identity he lost the production
I see you 7
Drake NEVER had that type of dip. He was a juggernaut and until he actually flops? Nothing Kendrick has done has changed that. Drake (similar to Ja) had the streets the clubs the malls the moms the cars LGBTQ and the radio.
Ja never got the endorsements the gay the strippers social media corporations etc quite like Drake
so it's actually interesting to consider who has the BETTER catalog over time.
50 got In the Club for LIFE so that one classic is tough to beat.
Ja Rule got them Ashanti JLo records that are timeless
And Drake got that arsenal like Neo.
Wow interesting debate their is no WRONG answer Ja probably beats 50 in a verzuz. But not for me personally.