i just got finished listenin' to ja rule's 1st 3 albums for the 1st time :wow:

[I love Latina women]

i always fukked with most of rule's singles but i'd never checked out an album of his until 3 hours ago and i just got through listenin' to all 3 of his 1st album and they was all good albums. but that 3rd album "pain is love" was the one where he knocked it out the ballpark

it made me realize how good of songwriter he was along with irv's, lil rob's, tru stylze production
rule had the hits and then some on this album, the whole damn album i could just cruise too


this nikka quoted and sang sade's "king of sorrow" lyrics with "i'm cryin' everyone's tears" on this skit




the beat on this muthafukka had me with face when i heard it a hour ago


you can kick back and just ride to this shyt, that beat





this shyt with missy and tweet







and for as much as ja ate off pac's plate as far as his style to some degree was, i didn't even mind hearin' him cover this song because at least i got to hear pac's verse at the end

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

His debut album is fuego and his best album , he should have continue to go towards that path in terms of his style / lyrics .

 

[I love Latina women]

His debut album is fuego and his best album , he should have continue to go towards that path in terms of his style / lyrics .

and i can get why a lot people would think that because outside of "holla holla", that album ain't have no commercial type of songs that would've popular at that time

"venni vetti vecci" is a good album but "pain is love" is that album to me

 

[Khadafhi]

I still fukks wit ja rule. It's funny how everybody was all on his dikk then they say fukk'em n hop on 50's dikk n/h.

 

[I love Latina women]

I still fukks wit ja rule. It's funny how everybody was all on his dikk then they say fukk'em n hop on 50's dikk n/h.

i didn't fukk with rule like that outside of his singles and while i liked some of 50's music, he was always overrated to me and by the time he rolled out "the massacre" it was like his music (outside of some of the mixtapes durin' that time and a couple of years after) had become so played

also, it was so clear that the minute ja rule's star faded and 50 was the top dog, he just used ja rule's shtick and milked it for all it was worth

only thing is, when 50 did a lot of those radio singles and more formulaic type songs that ja had done, it was done out of "see, i got the juice now, now watch me do what you did when you had it" just for the sake of doin' it; it was like 50 was doin' it out of spite instead of actually really tryin' to do somethin' "creative" (i use that word loosely)

but him doin' ja rule's formula was just like a slap in ja rule's face just to shyt on ja lol

but in the end, those ja rule songs, the radio hits still hold up so well and while i'd never bother to check out his albums back then, they still sound good consderin' they over well over a decade and some change old now

 

[Big Boss]

Yea ja had hits

 

[Khadafhi]

i didn't fukk with rule like that outside of his singles and while i liked some of 50's music, he was always overrated to me and by the time he rolled out "the massacre" it was like his music (outside of some of the mixtapes durin' that time and a couple of years after) had become so played

also, it was so clear that the minute ja rule's star faded and 50 was the top dog, he just used ja rule's shtick and milked it for all it was worth

only thing is, when 50 did a lot of those radio singles and more formulaic type songs that ja had done, it was done out of "see, i got the juice now, now watch me do what you did when you had it" just for the sake of doin' it; it was like 50 was doin' it out of spite instead of actually really tryin' to do somethin' "creative" (i use that word loosely)

but him doin' ja rule's formula was just like a slap in ja rule's face just to shyt on ja lol

but in the end, those ja rule songs, the radio hits still hold up so well and while i'd never bother to check out his albums back then, they still sound good consderin' they over well over a decade and some change old now

Yeah you right. He was clowning him for singing n doing songs for the hoes n he end up doin the same shyt. shyts crazy cuz if he never hooked up wit dre n that corny ass white boy, we wouldn't hear shyt about him.

 

[OHSNAP!]

Stop talkin' bout 50 Cent, this is about Ja's first 3 albums you ADD airheads

VVV was pretty good and gritty, but needed some serious work here and there

Rule 3:36 was okay, nothing special

Pain Is Love was probably 4/5, my favorite Ja album, his most polished. good R&B shyt (Always On Time, Livin It Up) mixed with some wellcrafted hood stuff (The Inc, Smokin & Ridin)

He had zero classics, but his first 3 albums were definitely bumpin'

 

[Big Boss]

Ja on that r kelly beat

 

[fReShBeAtS]

Ja is dope. i always liked his music. i really enjoyed his first 3 albums. he had some jams on there which were off the hook. i never gave a fukk when people was givin me the when i bumped his shyt. hope he drops some new stuff soon!

 

[I love Latina women]

Yeah you right. He was clowning him for singing n doing songs for the hoes n he end up doin the same shyt. shyts crazy cuz if he never hooked up wit dre n that corny ass white boy, we wouldn't hear shyt about him.

yeah

like i said before, nobody wants to admit it but when you look back now, ja rule won as far as the music goes because in the end his music has the most replay value years later

now it's like goin' through the motions listenin' to the majority of 50's music (outside like "in da club") and a couple of others like "hustler's ambition" and "ryder's music" --- this probably my favorite 50 song. hi tek did his thing on the beat

 

[Dreamzeedream]

Yall slept on this. I swear i wanted to be built like ja was in this video.

.
.i thought he was gone make a small comback with this one but he never followed up

 

[I love Latina women]

Stop talkin' bout 50 Cent, this is about Ja's first 3 albums you ADD airheads

VVV was pretty good and gritty, but needed some serious work here and there

Rule 3:36 was okay, nothing special

Pain Is Love was probably 4/5, my favorite Ja album, his most polished. good R&B shyt (Always On Time, Livin It Up) mixed with some wellcrafted hood stuff (The Inc, Smokin & Ridin)

He had zero classics, but his first 3 albums were definitely bumpin'

you know whenever ja is bought up, the inevitable happens and 50 is bought up and vice versa lol

but yeah, all of his 1st three albums were good and i agree you, "pain is love" is my favorite of his albums too; it's a really well balanced album and it goes well from start to finish. i'd say the closet he got to a classic album is "pain is love". is it a definitive classic? no but it's damn near close

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Dope thread

 

[Dreamzeedream]

you might be right i never looked at it like that

yeah

like i said before, nobody wants to admit it but when you look back now, ja rule won as far as the music goes because in the end his music has the most replay value years later

now it's like goin' through the motions listenin' to the majority of 50's music (outside like "in da club") and a couple of others like "hustler's ambition" and "ryder's music" --- this probably my favorite 50 song. hi tek did his thing on the beat