New Ja Rule interview, talks prison, beef with Em/50 Cent, etc

[Canada Goose]

So you didn’t have any beefs?

Not really at all, which was surprising. I thought, there’s always at least one out of every group, there’s always one bad seed or one dude that wants to try to be whatever. But it wasn’t like that. It’s kind of high school. You go in, you got your A crowd, you got your B crowd, you got your nerds, you got your jocks. It’s kind of the same way, and as soon as I walked into the joint I was a part of the A crowd. Shoutout to everybody in Ray Brook, Midstate.


Of course, a lot of people will always associate you with your beefs: 50 Cent, Eminem. How do you look at those conflicts now?

Man, that just goes back to me being young, full of energy, and not giving a fukk about nothing. That fukk-the-world attitude. I’m just happy that I’ve grown past that. Those things are not even a thought to me anymore. It was so long ago, almost 10 years ago. I hope young artists look at those things [like] it’s part of hip-hop history. Enjoy, man. Enjoy what hip-hop is about: It’s always been about the battles, the beefs, artists going back and forth.
For me, it’s not a thing where you take sides. I had a lot of guys in jail come up to me and they’d be like “Yo, Rule I fukks with you, man. fukk homeboy, I ain’t never like him anyway.” I’d look at him like, “It don’t got to be that. You can like him and like me too, it’s fine.” It’s not a “I’m on this side or I’m on that side” thing. If you like his music too that’s fine. I even dance to some of his records when they come on in the club.

I don’t have no malice towards anybody. I really don’t care anymore. I’m more about family and my kids and things that really matter in life. So I don’t even talk about those issues in interviews anymore. It was a period in time and we move on.

People often say 50 killed your career—that’s the popular narrative. Do you think that’s true? Is that what happened to your music career?
Of course not. It’s so many things that went into that that people don’t understand. I’m writing a book, so I guess you can go get my book and get the full story of how things unfolded. The hip-hop fans are not privy to a lot of backdoor conversations.

There’s three sides to every story: There’s my side, his side, and the truth. I know in my heart, I’ve always been a real dude. Throughout my career I’ve done a great job of being me. As much as people want to say, “When he came out he sounded like Pac,” I laugh at that because of course I love Pac; everybody loves Pac. I may have took a page out of Pac’s book as far as being passionate about what I do and being a hard worker in my music, but a lot of artists do that.

But on the flipside people say a lot of artists are like Ja Rule, so which is it? Am I an imitation or was I original in what I did? I think as artists we all borrow, we all take pages out of each other’s books and make it our own. Throughout my whole career I was very happy people would even look at me and put my name in the same breath as Tupac. That alone let me know that I’m in good company. I got the plaques and record sales to put behind it and say, “I definitely put in my own work.

http://www.complex.com/music/2013/08/ja-rule-interview

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Dope interview, very insightful

 

[Keep_It_Hip_Hop_Fam]

Very humble interview...respect to the Rule

 

[DrX]

ja >>>>>50


lets be real

 

[ryda518]

Very humble

Good interview

 

[Still Benefited]

Ja bout to get on his concious shyt,I hope I'm pleasently suprised when he drops some records and maybe his talent has gotten even better as his knowledge base is different

 

[darealvelle]

good shyt

 

[Mastamimd]

Good interview...crazy this dude, DMX, and Jay were all over the place all at one time.

 

[Nomad1]

Ja Rule

 

[Tony D'Amato]

that n1gga know he was in PC

these rappers man

 

[We Ready]

Backhanded compliment



"I even dance to some of his records when they come on in the club."

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

that n1gga know he was in PC

these rappers man

Not really at all, which was surprising. I thought, there’s always at least one out of every group, there’s always one bad seed or one dude that wants to try to be whatever. But it wasn’t like that. It’s kind of high school. You go in, you got your A crowd, you got your B crowd, you got your nerds, you got your jocks. It’s kind of the same way, and as soon as I walked into the joint I was a part of the A crowd. Shoutout to everybody in Ray Brook, Midstate.

this nikka ja is comedy

 

[Arabial Knight]

I'd be cool with him getting back in the game

shyt fake studio rappers are all the rage right now. He'd probably be able to fit in somewhere and eat.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Dope interview.


That was a damn exciting time in hip hop.

Backdown
Loose Change
The stories of the brawls between the crews
The street playaz involved
Busta referring to Ja by his governent name, Jeffrey
Greatness

 

[DEAD7]

 

[Big Boss]

ja rule had some hits