When Ja Rule dropped “Clap Back’, was it an uppercut to 50 Cent in real time???

[avon barksdale]

 

[getmoney310cpt]

We clowned it in real time weak ass shyt the fukk outta here play that Heat video nikka lol

 

[SunZoo]

Ja should have taken a year or two off and came back with something like this



That shyt woulda been a smash in his prime, regardless of what 50 was doing.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

It did absolutely nothing. I always felt bad for dude he got a raw deal from the fans and industry. It's one of the things I've come to hate about hip hop and the entertainment industry as a whole, like the whole building up of someone just to find someone or something to tear it all down. And the masses buy it, "hook, line and sinker ". Dude was selling like 3 million every time out he was dare I say it, bigger than Jay-Z at one point. Go back and look ppl was buying and jamming them albums. Plus he had the female game on lock. But that was the thing, if you're audience has too many women and something more masculine comes along and they like that more, then you're time's up

This is how it seemed back then. It was the perfect storm of stuff not hitting plus 50’s onslaught. I’m an admitted former G-Unit stan, but even before then, I wasn’t really jammin Ja much other than that second Murder Inc compilation, and I did buy his debut. Ja was massive though, and ideally, truly should’ve just ignored 50 and focused on those radio singles. I liked the beat to “Clap Back”, but the video seemed so over the top, almost a gangsta parody, especially after he was wearing a Grease-inspired sweater in that bubble gum ass “Mesmerised” video

 

[Alfred0Santana]

shyt was aight but it was late as hell. Like shooting a missle back after you’ve been nuked.

 

[duckbutta]

50 cent tricking people into not liking ja rule while running around with no shirt on talking about "i'll take you to the candy shop. i'll let you lick the lollipop" is some straight black mirror shyt

 

[Hostile]

I fukked with it hard but everybody had already made up their minds by that point. They didn't care what Ja said.

 

[Peabo Bryson]

Regionally... some of yall are over exagerrating.. in NYC it got heavy airplay. Hot97 had it in rotation believe it or not. But it didn't change anything or do damage to 50 like that.

 

[Avisible Man]

"It's against my religion to let a nikka survive. You know what I mean. It's in the laws of power, baby. You know what I mean? When u destroy, u destroy completely, bytch."

Even back then, Fif was about the Laws of Power

"Whoo Kid, turn this shyt off, man. What the fukk is goin on. Muthafukka ain't gon shyt, man."

 

[Womb Raider]

50 cent tricking people into not liking ja rule while running around with no shirt on talking about "i'll take you to the candy shop. i'll let you lick the lollipop" is some straight black mirror shyt

shyt is truly crazy How you kill a nikka for his female songs and then come out with more female songs

 

[Playaz Eyez]

shyt is truly crazy How you kill a nikka for his female songs and then come out with more female songs

21 Questions
Just A Lil Bit
Candy Shop
Wanna Get To Know You
Amusement Park
Ayo Technology
Baby By Me
Do You Think About Me

Let’s be honest here, were any of those actually better than the ones Ja was doing? Almost every one of those were on par with that “Mesmerized” trash

 

[Womb Raider]

21 Questions
Just A Lil Bit
Candy Shop
Wanna Get To Know You
Amusement Park
Ayo Technology
Baby By Me
Do You Think About Me

Let’s be honest here, were any of those actually better than the ones Ja was doing? Almost every one of those were on par with that “Mesmerized” trash

First two are timeless, amusement park is a guilty pleasure, the rest of them jawns especially ayo technology

 

[mson]

People saying that was the end are forgetting 'I'm from NY' was after that. That pissed 50 off.

 

[nairdas]

Damn shame Ja got thrown to the wayside the way he did. To me Ja > 50. I was probably more on 50 side tho because I liked Eminem, Ja will always be the better rapper to me.

I fukked with Clap Back, but yeah the public had already turned on Ja heavy by then.

 

[African Peasant]

The 50 killed Ja narrative is an exaggeration.
Ja's run 1998-2002 was over. Ja peaked in 2001/2002 with Pain is Love.
With "The Last Temptation" he pushed the enveloppe too far, it became cheesy. Ja was on his way out, independently of 50.