Ja Rule wishes social media existed during his beef with 50 Cent.
In a recent Hot 97 interview with TT Torrez, the 49-year-old rapper reflected on how digital platforms have transformed rap rivalries, referencing last summer’s Drake-Kendrick battle.
“I kind of wish I had the internet when I had my beef going on,” Rule admitted around the 43:30 mark. “I would’ve seen things in real time, you know what I’m saying? They would’ve seen who this guy is in real time and then then it would have been a different outlook on what this is. You would’ve been like, ‘Oh, now I get it. This guy’s a fucking fraud.’ You don’t get a chance to see that, feel that… ‘cuz there was no internet.”
Rule observed how fans dissected Drake and Kendrick’s diss tracks “lyric for lyric” but acknowledged we’re in “a different time right now.”
When asked about Drake’s situation, Ja explained: “Drake’s in a position right now and I know this position well. He’s in a position where two plus two is adding up to 7, and he just doesn’t understand it. He’s like, ‘How can I be the hottest motherfucker for 10 years and now everybody wants me to lose?’ He’s not understanding the dynamic of that.”
Comparing to sports, Ja noted that Bronny James must prove himself on the court, unlike in music. “That’s why I love athletics so much. Because I can be the hardest working motherfucker in this industry and then fucking doing the greatest shit, killing it, putting up records people love, and then 50 Cent comes out, shits on me [and] everybody says, ‘Oh, we like him better than Ja Rule now.'”
“I put in the work. I worked the hardest, still gonna work the hardest, still gonna be great. But that opinion? I can’t change from people,” he concluded.
When asked about advice for Drake, Ja Rule explained: “Drake could go and make a thousand fucking dope records right now. People are rejecting his deposit. So that’s what he’s going through right now. But if he was an athlete, and you go put up fucking 55—you gonna put up 60 points in the night, I can’t deny that, man.”
“Here’s my message to anybody: stay out of rap beefs,” Ja advised toward the end of the interview.
Regarding his own drawn-out rivalry with 50 Cent, Ja maintains he’s moved on.
“I don’t give a fuck what happened,” he stated. “I’m a real one, you know what I’m saying? I don’t think about that shit, it don’t bother me.”
