Can everyone stop trying to rewrite history for Ja Rule

[AJD]

Did @jau89 ever upload that video breh? I stopped following that shyt

Don't mention me you fakkit
Thread in the BUSHES, you mans thread flopped and took an L b


Also 50> rule in every sense

 

[Threnody]

JA was the fukking man for a min

nikkas is either young or lying they ass off if they say otherwise

You didn't fukk with him personally? cool but that don't mean shyt

I didn't fukk with Jay-Z at all from 99' to 02' that don't mean he wasn't running shyt

 

[LezJepzin]

I was one of the biggest Ja haters from 2000-2002 but @ dude being compared to Chingy.

He had numerous hits and his first album was alright

But Jeffery Atkins started feeling himself too much and thought everything he put out would turn into gold. Even with him singing on hooks like he was Cookie Monster.

The bigger his ego became, the cornier he got . 50 did everyone a favor. His beef with Jeffery eventually exposed Ja yet it wasn't just 50 that did him in. Ja set himself up for the final burial comparing himself with Pac. Not just in that song with Nas but with all of those cheesy videos of him either as a prisoner looking for "thug love" or trying to get his Nino Brown on Don't get me started on that Mesmerize video with Ashanti

When 50 came around, he was what Ja was trying to be all along and the rest of the world saw it too, further adding to his own demise. Remember the Movie, 8 Mile? Papa Doc was no different than Jeffery


It is what it is .

 

[JustCKing]

The reality is Ja was pound for pound the biggest most impactful hip hop artist in 2000 & 2001...nobody was going crazy for his albums though

Ja was not the most impactful artist in those years. During that time, these artists had more impact than Ja:

Jay Z/Nas- on just a Hip Hop perspective. That beef/battle easily made them more impactful during that period. And you can't really use a sales metric here because, Jay was selling as much if not more.

Ludacris- he had his own solo career poppin' off and his hits were as impactful if not more impactful than Ja's. This The Coli though and most will argue "nobody listens to those Luda records now though". Well in 2000 and 2001, Luda was one of the biggest rappers in the game and was killing features

Nelly- don't even have to discuss how big the Country Grammar album was

Eminem- yeah we get it, "the music aged bad", "he had the biggest fall off of any rapper". In 2000 and 20001, Eminem was possibly the biggest rapper on the planet and not just to white people who could care less about Hip Hop outside of Eminem. Eminem actually was an impactful MC who had the ears of Hip Hop at the time.

 

[JustCKing]

Ja Rule had a great run. It was one of the greatest runs of last decade, but The Booth is being revisionist a bit on both sides. Ja Rule was a certified hitmaker who sold a lot of records in his prime. I wouldn't compare him to Chingy, because Chingy lacked credibility as an MC. I wouldn't say Ja was ever bigger than Jay Z either, because Jay had Ja on the sales, skills, and credibility. The whole Ja gave Jay his biggest hit is bogus. While "Can I Get A" might've been Ja's first, it definitely didn't blow because of Ja. It blew as Jay song featuring Ja, which gave Ja mainstream exposure. Honestly speaking, Ja ain't really blow until he started crooning and doing the R&B, cross over joints with Lil' Mo, Ashanti, and J Lo. He had a working formula that took him from platinum to triple platinum and several of them were Hip Hop takes on old school R&B standards. "Holla, Holla" and "How Many" (which set the tone for the crooning, but was a much harder record) were hard songs, but it didn't get him the Top 40 love that the more R&B flavored songs did.

 

[New Username]

We should respect Ja more

 

[wtfyomom]

he was trash, what gets me is that most people will acknowledge his only album that wasnt full sell out was venni vetti vecci, but it was just ok. some people act like its classic just cause its not a completely commercial album. ja was mediocre at best

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

I would still bump more Ja songs than 50

#FACTS

 

[wtfyomom]

Jay defintely stole can i get a... but that was Jays MO from the beginning, he stole feeling it from camp lo on RD and from there it was a consistent thing. he stole shyt from his own artists too like give it to me

 

[SouljaVoy]

Yall nikkas are some weirdos if you really think Ja shyt wasn't bumpin back then .... and his hits are actually timeless and still sounds good today. (Unlike 90% of music from that area, including 50.)




This is just one cause i dont feel like going through Youtube..... This shyt is a fukking classic, and still sounds amazing in 2018.




Any nikka who say Ja aint a legend and dont got classics is a weirdo nikka who probably be listenen to nikkas like Tec 9 & Hopsin.

 

[R=G]

Under the age of 27 u really can’t have an opinion on the matter, before 50 the perception of ja was that he was top 3 biggest hip hop artists at the time and he was looked at as the flagship artist . He was up there with jay dmx and was bigger than both for a moment

Let's see...he was never, ever bigger than DMX. And Jay Z definitely dropped more back to back hits than Ja Rule..Jay was on the radio steady with singles from 98 with Hard Knock Life to that fake first retirement Black album gimmick. Ja Rule had team up stuff with Lil Mo, J lo, Christina milian, and of course Ashanti.

 

[R=G]

nikka plz. Ja was big when he 1st came out

I remember when he 1st came out with that song from the "light it up" soundtrack called "how many wanna" and I remember a bunch of people were bumping that. And I'm from ATL

Nah..when be first came out, he got lit up for being this odd voiced sounding Tupac wannabe. He just was overly blatant with it like No Limit and almost every down south artist claiming a revised version of "THUG LIFE" at the time.

 

[raoulduke187]

okay bruh, I had the urge to try and rewrite history making Ja Rule out to be some kind of superstar and quality hip-hop artist, but this thread completely turned me around and I will cease and desist any and all attempts to push these opinions on the users of this message board

 

[Knights89]

this thread reminded me of this joint


havent heard it years

not a big Ja fan, but he had a few records i rocked with

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

In the 00s decade the highest selling Hip-Hop emcees were in order Eminem, 50 Cent, Outkast and Nelly.

Ja Rule couldn't even scratch the surface of popularity that 50 had.

Ja Rule doesn't sell out arenas or stadiums overseas so it's evident that they are not on the same level.

50 performs in the O2 Arena, whilst Ja Rule gets low in pubs and rinky dink 1000 seater night clubs -- no lies told

3k likes


1.5k likes



Tony Yayo has 20k views.



The fourth popular act in G-Unit who only released 1 album and a slew of mixtapes has just as big of a following and an almost equal social media presence.

From 2000-2010 Tony Yayo sold more records than Ja Rule -- that's the past 18 years the fourth popular act in G-Unit is more popular than the person who is supposedly on 50's level. Ja can't do nothing right.