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Former Murder Inc. Records artist Ja Rule recently shared his views on rap beefs and said emcees are just using diss tracks to sell albums.
Rule said his past beef with 50 Cent was related to a physical altercation.
“I think the beef sh*t is wack,” Rule revealed in an interview. “My beef was different, it was real. Physical altercations, all that. A lot of these beefs today, are just publicity stunts for artists to try to sell records. They try to further their careers or whatever, doing so by creating conflict with other artists who are creating a buzz. I think it’s watered down hip-hop. Even though hip-hop was founded on the battle, it came from that. It’s still, with how far hip-hop has come, the beef records take away from the talent and the creative process of it all. I just think all the beef records and that sh*t is wack.” (Dubcnn)
Last year, Murder Inc. associate Cadillac Tah said 50 admired Rule during their 2002 beef.
“I guess [his plan] was for him to try to Tupac it, Tupac and Biggie,” Tah explained in an interview. “Find a target, go after the target to make people look at him. That’s kinda always been his little strategy even when he made the song ‘How to Rob.’ He did that so everybody would switch the attention to him, it wasn’t like that was a bad plan. It worked, so if it worked it means it was a good plan. I was just not advising him to do that — He played a ill strategic game. He threw Ja off of his grind and jumped on Ja’s sh*t. He always wanted what Ja had, I mean that kinda fame, how Ja was killing ’em on the radio songs every five minutes…He came in the game with ‘What up blood, what up cuz,’ and then it’s ‘I wanna take you to the candy shop,’ and he would start singing a whole lot. It’s the same sh*t you had my n*gga on the Summer Jam screen about, making fun of that — and you d*mn near made a whole singing album like that.” (Ms Drama TV)
Rule also said his rap war against 50 was unfair due to the G-Unit leader’s association with police.
“I went at 50 too, I don’t think n*ggas think about that either,” Rule said in an interview earlier this summer. “I went at that n*gga hard too. 50 done had a beef with a gang of n*ggas. Even the first record he made I think was ‘How 2 Rob,’ and I was the only artist that when I seen him, I was like, ‘Eh, that ain’t funny homie. What’s happening.’ You feel what I’m saying? Everybody else that seen him, ‘Hahahahahaaa,’ silly n*ggas. Nah n*gga, ain’t no dap, n*gga. It ain’t funny. What’s happening? And I went at his head. He couldn’t f*ck with what we as doing on these streets so he went into a booth and became Superman. And that’s how that whole thing transcended and he was talking so much to the police, n*gga couldn’t really express his true feelings. He got my n*ggas facing 20 years in jail, my n*gga Supreme is doing life right now. When n*ggas talk all that sh*t, I laugh because they don’t know the infrastructure with how it all spiraled to what it is today.” (Forbez DVD)
The rapper went after 50 on the Rick Ross diss track, “Mafia Music” remix.
“Guess who’s bizzack,” Rule raps. “I spit murder, the music is mafia…One cold afternoon you get shot at your home/Now ‘I Smell P*ssy’/P*ssy got lips, but it don’t talk to me/That’s why you my b*tch/And you on my d*ck/Aha ’cause I f*cked you up once, I f*cked you up twice and you still talking sh*t/What must I do, to get through to you/ Curly, get off my d*ck…Read in-between the lines when you hear me talk/Get on get outta line, this is Rule York.” (“Mafia Music” Remix)
Check out a past Ja Rule interview below:
