Ja Rule is opening up about his recent run-in with Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda on a Delta flight, stressing that he’s focused on leading by example for the younger generation.
Speaking on Wednesday’s episode of the TODAY show, he downplayed the situation. “Nothing really happened,” he said. “There’s a responsibility that we have to be gentlemen. I live by a code, I call it the gentleman’s code, but I’m also raising young men. So you have to let them know that there’s no room for disrespect, but also that there’s a way to carry yourself. So two things can be true.”
He continued, “Disrespect is not tolerated but there is a way you carry yourself in certain spaces.”
Ja Rule’s take on the incident lines up with the apology he shared publicly just days after the altercation.
“I’m not proud of my behavior, it’s goofy to me,” Ja Rule admitted. “I’m a grown man about to be a grandfather and I wish that video of me wasn’t out there either. I don’t like people taking me out of my character so for that I apologize to my wife, family, fans, business, and investment partners.”
He wrapped it up by saying, “I want people to know at the end of the day I’m still a man and I’m going to stand my ground. I don’t start trouble.”
The confrontation between Ja Rule, Tony Yayo, and Uncle Murda unfolded over Super Bowl weekend after they all boarded the same flight. Later, in a sit-down with DJ Vlad, Tony Yayo gave his version of events, recalling that Ja Rule was seated directly in front of them.
“He see me, I see him, he spooked. He could tell TMZ, he could tell you … he was spooked,” Yayo claimed. “The nervous factor to me is, he kept saying, ‘Yo we good?’ He wasn’t even saying in an aggressive way.”
What started as a heated exchange nearly turned physical before flight attendants stepped in and calmed things down. Afterward, Ja Rule took to X, writing that he “popped on these punks by myself.”
