Ja Rule; 50 Cent.Photo: Theo Wargo/WireImage; Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images
Ja Ruleis seemingly ready to move on from old music beef and mend fences.
The rapper, 47, said how “life is short” when discussing his long-standing feud withCurtis “50 Cent” JacksonwithThe Shade Roomrecently. “I think these things can be mended,” Rule told the outlet. “Maybe I got a little too much MLK in me, but especially amongst Black people, I don’t like to see us beefing — that’s clown s— to me.”
The pair’s beef stretches back over two decades to when the two were rival rappers coming up Queens. When asked about the quarrel — which occasionally turned violent — Rule admitted it was “such a weird time,” which exposed hypocrisy in the rap game.
“That was such a weird time, you can’t just tell me: ‘Don’t like him because he makes songs with females that sing.’ F— him, that guy whose songs I’ve been listening to for the last three summers,” Rule said. “F— him, I’m f—ing with you. Then they go around and do the same s— you were doing and they love it!”
Throughout the last two decades, the pair exchanged diss tracks, social media banter and insults via interviews. Rule and 50 also exchanged both verbal and physical blows, including club brawls and reported stabbings, according toHot New Hip Hop.
The four-time Grammy Award nominee was asked during the same interview whether a world existed “where 50 Cent and Ja Rule call a truce?” Rule responded playfully, “If 50 Cent was to walk in here right now, what do you think is gonna happen?” The interviewer answered, “Well nothing obviously” when Rule agreed saying, “Exactly!”
He continued: “That’s what the f— I’m saying. We don’t have an issue, we don’t have a problem. We really don’t.”
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The host recalled 50 Cent’s alleged response to Rule suggesting a possible Verzuz between them, when thePowerco-creator reportedly dismissed the challenge, implying his participation would make Rule relevant, according to the interviewer.
“Like come on. I’m very relevant out here,” Rule said. “I don’t have nothing to prove to anybody. I just want people to understand my side of it. And my side of it is I really don’t give a f—.”
He continued: “We can coincide inside of a world. He’s doing him, and he’s not thinking about me, and I’m doing me and I’m not thinking about him.”
Switching gears during the sit-down, the “Holla Holla” emcee praised fellow New York rapperNicki Minajfor her groundbreaking rise to superstardom in the mid-2000s. “Her place in the game is solidified,” he said.
Minaj, 40, burst onto the rap scene with her first solo single, “Your Love.” The track peaked at No. 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart.
Rule added, “The female emcees they’re having a run like they’ve never had before, and to me, in my opinion, I would say Nicki re-opened that door.”
source: people.com
