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

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Most of us lived it in real time. Kiss and Joe had better verses. But the hook and the production made that song. And the reason 50 dissed all those guys was because the song was a success, and he didn't like that.
And I don't deny that. That was the same logic that made Jay-Z respond to Jim Jones.

But it was a full year AFTER Clap Back (which is the point of this thread).

The reaction to Clap Back was ":dahell: Ja back to be hard, now?"
 

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Was in high school at the time, and I fukked with some of Ja's 2003 releases, and I think I did like that album but no one was really fukking with it, like some of that grimy Murder Inc, there was a track that sampled Change Gon Come, had on some mix

Not like 50 and G-Unit, which was in every hotel party, every car, every party, radio stations, if you put this on, everyone would be like what is this?

The only place would be in my boys car when I would play Change Gon Come or the one with Hussein Fatal, but it didn't get much play at all, from my perspective.

The summer really was the end of the battle, it was over after Hail Mary, and a few other Shady/Interscope tracks.

The Hussein Fatal is kinda fire, can see why the 17 year old me loved this, but it's not great as a diss, it's really generic. Someone posted that interlude, which is what I remember, we gon clap back, we gon clap back, nah turn that shyt off
 

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no.. it didn't do anything to change the overall narrative but i fucced with it and bought the album too :obama:
Yea Rule dropped NY NY and Clap Back. He was putting out good music but the streets had already made their decision.

i think Rule should have kept making the same music he was making and add a few hard records here and there.
 

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That sing song bullish buried him along with 50, made him an easy target on mixtapes etc., he kind of killed himself and 50 was the nail in the coffin so there was literally no coming back from that. He did have Clap back and NY as said and I loved those records, to bad he did not keep making them all along to balance things out and things might not have turned out the way they did for him. I did not want to hear him sing though, dude does not have a singing voice and it did not fit IMO, pure garbage and I stopped listening pretty much when he started that.
 

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Yea Rule dropped NY NY and Clap Back. He was putting out good music but the streets had already made their decision.

i think Rule should have kept making the same music he was making and add a few hard records here and there.
If he made that same music he might have had a chance no doubt... His sing bullshyt though made him an easier target and 50 went in on that and it was a wrap pretty much sides a song here or there like you mentioned where he came back to where he should have been. By then though I think it was too late fans had made up their minds and dude was a punchline.
 

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If he made that same music he might have had a chance no doubt... His sing bullshyt though made him an easier target and 50 went in on that and it was a wrap pretty much sides a song here or there like you mentioned where he came back to where he should have been. By then though I think it was too late fans had made up their minds and dude was a punchline.
We were gullible kids man. Im willing to bet if it happened now, kids and younger generation would have still fcked with JA.
 

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"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 :wow:

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


:russ: I just randomly thought of this shyt the other day, finally remembered which mixtape it was from. This shyt is just as funny today as it was when it dropped. I swear 50 back then was fukking untouchable.

We gon clap back, we gon clap back :lolbron:
 
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