Ja Rule talks about 50 Cent feud and the effect it had on his career

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plantedunicorn said:
Wondering does 50 cent even have any intention of releasing any more music or is he just content trolling twitter counting his monies?
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Major Distribution and We Up are two my of my favorite tracks this year. I thought they were a return to form for 50 (and Snoop on MD)
 
Shark Johnson said:
His label doesn't want to promote any of his shit anymore. Not that it wouldn't be successful but it wont be like his other albums so they keep passing on it.

Fif got his hands in all types of shit. He doesn't need to or give a shit about making good shit anymore.

GRODT and The Massacre are still great.
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Ah yes its the labels fault. It can't be that he has been on a steady decline in quality and sales since his first album.

In the real world Interscope would kill for another great 50 album so they could make more money off of him. Problem is he hasn't made anything worthwhile that even the nyc market finds relevant enough to play on the radio.
 
Rap "beefs" seem like the dumbest thing in the universe.

See, at least Metallica and Megadeth had a non-imagined reason to dislike each other.
 
I'll check this video in a bit...

Oh and I'd like to add that Ja is mad short... He was trying to pick up my friends girl while he was filming something in Toronto. He was trying to buy her drinks, and she wasn't having it. When my buddy asked what's up she said "some short ugly mother is trying to get at me". He looks over and sees Ja with his cru...

...I still laugh out loud to this day about it...
 
Mattlikewhoa said:
I'll check this video in a bit...

Oh and I'd like to add that Ja is mad short... He was trying to pick up my friends girl while he was filming something in Toronto. He was trying to buy her drinks, and she wasn't having it. When my buddy asked what's up she said "some short ugly mother is trying to get at me". He looks over and sees Ja with his cru...

...I still laugh out loud to this day about it...
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Had his chain jacked over here in London as well.
 
Into said:
His rise to his 15 min of fame was doing pop songs with Ashanti and JLo while acting like a fake tough guy.
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There's a rumor he's working with Ashanti again now after she posted a pic of them in the studio.

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Good for him he seems like he's over that shit at least that's what I got outta the video. Irv is so happy he's screaming at the top of his lungs.
 
I'll tell you why I think other music genres aren't regularly feuding.

Rappers have too much free time on their hands. Other musicians have to learn instruments and write music but these guys can just walk into the studio, mumble somethin somethin inna club and get their cheque.
 
Fusebox said:
I'll tell you why I think other music genres aren't regularly feuding.

Rappers have too much free time on their hands. Other musicians have to learn instruments and write music but these guys can just walk into the studio, mumble somethin somethin inna club and get their cheque.
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You can do better than this.
 
L-O-L @ people thinking the 50 Cent beef is what did Ja in.

Yeah, that shit was embarrassing, but Ja still had scores of horny teenage girls in his corner after, and that was his primary audience anyway, if we're being real.

No, what did Ja in was all of fucking Murda Inc. imploding. NOBODY on that label survived it, not even Ashanti, and she was the top R&B chick in the game at the time, giving even BEYONCE a run for her money.
 
NeOak said:
Could anyone please explain the thing with Eminem's daughter?
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Ja Rule, Loose Change (against 50 Cent... you know):

"Em, you claim your mother’s a crackhead and Kim is a known slut
So what’s Hailie gon' be when she grows up?"
 
You guys made me YouTube all the back and forth diss tracks. Gotdamn Em and 50 literally nuked Ja's career

royalan said:
L-O-L @ people thinking the 50 Cent beef is what did Ja in.

Yeah, that shit was embarrassing, but Ja still had scores of horny teenage girls in his corner after, and that was his primary audience anyway, if we're being real.

No, what did Ja in was all of fucking Murda Inc. imploding. NOBODY on that label survived it, not even Ashanti, and she was the top R&B chick in the game at the time, giving even BEYONCE a run for her money.
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Kave_Man said:
Call?

They probably walked downstairs and saw Ja eating out of a garbage can and figured "why not?"
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Hahahah - I think the last time I saw him before he went to jail was at by Rev. Run's house dropping his own daughter off there for a play date or something with Run's kids, can't even remember for sure.

I always found that Ross got hit harder than Ja rep-wise with the Officer Ricky exposure, but yet up till today you can hear Ross on something hot. Funny how that goes.
 
in a woooorrrlld fiendish peoples all roooouuunnd the places spaces erasers in my faces girl so mushy gotta bounce in my faces yeagh-e ooooogggghhh.
 
CherryWoodFuton said:
You guys made me YouTube all the back and forth diss tracks. Gotdamn Em and 50 literally nuked Ja's career



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The Receipts:

Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous debut album, which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold over 503,000 copies in its first week of release throughout the U.S. in April 2002. The album set a Soundscan record as the biggest opening week sales for a new female artist, outselling debuts by Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill.[1] In the same week, she became the first female performer to simultaneously hold the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with "Foolish", and "What's Luv?" (with Fat Joe). Ashanti broke records again by having three top ten songs, "Foolish," "What's Luv?" and "Always on Time", on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week, being the first woman to accomplish this feat and being second only to the Beatles.[2] In 2003, the self-titled debut album won Ashanti her first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B album. As of 2008, Ashanti has sold over 12 million records worldwide.[3] Ashanti ended the decade (2000–09) as the third top new R&B artist behind Alicia Keys and Beyoncé.[4]
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That last one is especially impressive considering that by that point Murda Inc. had already gone Titanic and Beyonce had more albums out than her.

Ashanti definitely had Beyonce's number in the beginning. Then Irv Gotti had to go and fuck it up.
 
BadAss2961 said:
Embarrassing to see them on Hot 97 admitting their L and irrelevancy. So sad. There's no recovering from that.

I almost feel bad for them.
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Theres no recovering from that? Shit.... They were not going to recover by continuing to go at 50. So there was no alternative anyway. Their best bet it to take loss and start over. That battle is over, and pretending that they 'won' it wasn't going to do shit for them anyhow.

XiaNaphryz said:
There's a rumor he's working with Ashanti again now after she posted a pic of them in the studio.

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A good look, because both of their careers certainly need SOMETHING. The 50 Cent/Interscope thing definitely hurt Murder Inc, but the legal issues certainly compounded that. Like someone else said, NOONE survived Murder Incs implosion, even Ashanti, who at the beginning looked as if she could do no wrong.
 
royalan said:
L-O-L @ people thinking the 50 Cent beef is what did Ja in.

Yeah, that shit was embarrassing, but Ja still had scores of horny teenage girls in his corner after, and that was his primary audience anyway, if we're being real.

No, what did Ja in was all of fucking Murda Inc. imploding. NOBODY on that label survived it, not even Ashanti, and she was the top R&B chick in the game at the time, giving even BEYONCE a run for her money.
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Doesn't Ashanti make plenty paper song writing. Even when she was a star she was writing for others.
 
royalan said:
The Receipts:



That last one is especially impressive considering that by that point Murda Inc. had already gone Titanic and Beyonce had more albums out than her.

Ashanti definitely had Beyonce's number in the beginning. Then Irv Gotti had to go and fuck it up.
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Irv can now be seen telling old stories that happened in the "Crack House". That's what the label that gave us a fake Tupac called their studio.

I guess when your life a studio gangsta, you go all the way.
 
It's good to actually see some humility come out of Ja. That was his biggest shortcoming as a rapper. How are you gonna challenge people like Em', Fif, Busta, etc. with no respect when you're a sub 6-foot carbon copy of 2Pac's image and everyone including Ja knows it?

Regarding Fif's music career... he still makes dope shit, but it's pure NY gangsta rap... ie, that shit the masses are no longer into (Trap Rap, Strip Club Rap & Cheerleader Rap [Macklemore, Pitbull, etc.] is the new hotness at the moment.). I think Fif could make a great studio album, if he wanted to. At this point though, it seems like he's just making music for fun, while avoiding the label all together.

Plus, Interscope doesn't seem to care about anyone not named Eminem or Kendrick Lamar...
 
royalan said:
That last one is especially impressive considering that by that point Murda Inc. had already gone Titanic and Beyonce had more albums out than her.

Ashanti definitely had Beyonce's number in the beginning. Then Irv Gotti had to go and fuck it up.
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Thanks for reminding me of this. I needed the laugh.
 
royalan said:
L-O-L @ people thinking the 50 Cent beef is what did Ja in.

Yeah, that shit was embarrassing, but Ja still had scores of horny teenage girls in his corner after, and that was his primary audience anyway, if we're being real.

No, what did Ja in was all of fucking Murda Inc. imploding. NOBODY on that label survived it, not even Ashanti, and she was the top R&B chick in the game at the time, giving even BEYONCE a run for her money.
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Yeah I mean even Ja admits it in that interview.

The reason they really disappeared is because the lablel and Irv were being investigated by the feds. The reason no one wanted to work with them was because of legal issues ans them facing jail time.

50 going at them was the icing on top. He was so hot at the moment that it seemed like he alone was killing them.
 
Cipherr said:
Theres no recovering from that? Shit.... They were not going to recover by continuing to go at 50. So there was no alternative anyway. Their best bet it to take loss and start over. That battle is over, and pretending that they 'won' it wasn't going to do shit for them anyhow.
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They don't have to act like they won. They could've just said, whatever, it's over instead of talking about how hot In Da Club was and how shook it had them (Irv is an idiot.) Ja also making excuses about award shows snubbing them, when really, they just didn't have anything going for them after a certain point.
 
Mumei said:
Thanks for reminding me of this. I needed the laugh.
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Lol.

Funny thing is, it really was kind of a sad landscape in R&B at the time (and it still is). The only ones worth anything at the time were Usher, DC, & Ashanti. Everyone else was either dead, recovering, or irrelevant.

And yes... Beyonce's DiL pretty much murked Ashanti's career, lol...
 
I would say that Nas is lucky that Jay didn't do that to him, but I'm not sure anyone would have even noticed anyway. "Ey, where's that guy who wears those ugly ass suits to the after parties!?!"
 
jWILL253 said:
Lol.

Funny thing is, it really was kind of a sad landscape in R&B at the time (and it still is). The only ones worth anything at the time were Usher, DC, & Ashanti. Everyone else was either dead, recovering, or irrelevant.

And yes... Beyonce's DiL pretty much murked Ashanti's career, lol...
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Don't forget Mary J Blige, but then again Mary J is an R&B vet and I can't recall any of her albums performing poorly.

But yeah, R&B was pretty dry at the time. Still kinda is, really.

Mumei said:
Thanks for reminding me of this. I needed the laugh.
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The tea burns, but it's such a sad situation.

These days, Beyoncé would be lucky if she could put out an album HALF as good as Ashanti's debut. ;______;

Hell, Foolish>>>>>>>>>Most of Bey's discography.

See my days are cold without you
But I'm hurtin while I'm with you
And though my heart can't take no more
I keep on runnin back to you.

;____;
 
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