From: CMU
An interview between Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan and Ja Rule was aired in the US yesterday, and Ja promised the minister he would try to put to an end his high profile feud with 50 Cent.
Ja Rule explained that the feud began during a video shoot in New York. Much of the squabbling has taken place through the raps on the respective MCs records, though on two occasions it did reportedly escalate into fist fights - once in Atlanta and once at a New York studio.
Farrakhan told Ja: "I never want to see anything happen to you, Ja, and I never want to see anything happen to 50. I want to see peace." He added that he wanted the feud to end for "the benefit of hip-hop and the youth who emulate rap stars".
Ja replied: "When I first heard the records, I said, 'Come on, I'm bigger than that'. But the public started to give me ridicule."
But he added: "It's not about me and 50's personal beef. It's about the overall state of hip-hop and the children that are coming up watching and learning and pitting themselves against each other because one rapper says he doesn't like the other. I'd be crazy and disrespectful to say I wouldn't sit down at the table and try to help hip-hop."
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— go to most recent comments1 - mick
ja is hot than 50 and is soldier
2 - Sugar
I think that they are both two great rappers and they are both talented.
3 - bill
ja is fucking fag he is so fake he sings soft and then he tries to act hard dissing 50 when really 50 would beat the shit out of him if they ever fought. murder inc is all gay they are all a bunch of pussys. ja is a weak little dude that thinks he is tupac but he's not because tupac could rap and back his shit up but ja is just a pussy
4 - Kurt Nordstrom
Color me ignorant, but a culture that has to worry about young people hurting each other based on the disagreement of popular musicians (I use that term loosely) is in real trouble. Not that I should really take Farrakhan seriously as cultural representative.
5 - Belgian gansta
the beef between ja and 50 is idiot. they're both great artists. If this continious it's going to end like biggie and pac. Then they will be killed. and it would be a big loss for the hiphop world. so like ja said in his video Hiphop is dying, reach for peace
Hiphop forever
6 - jessie
50 n ja are tight but 50 cent complains 2 much about gettin shot 9 times in the chest.50 cent thinks hes bigger than any other rapper.but hes not
7 - scott
well like they said in that interview, FOR MY entertainment I WOULD like to see them end up like biggie and pac, it would be a controversy and interesting, dont think bad of me cuz i said that u know it would be.. i dont like ja and 50 is one of my fav rappers, but i want to see em BE REAL and hire a fuckin hit already, JUST BLAZE WzeEZD PEACE
8 - Steve
Learn some fucking grammar you fucking idiots.
9 - duane
The move from a structuralist account in which Ja Rule is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of 50 cent, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Howzzat, Steve?
10 - stunna
50 cent is scary how u gone claim to be like 2-pac but yet u runnin around scared? pac got shot 5 times, u never saw him run out and get a bomb proof suv or be laced in a bullet proof outfit i mean come on 50 cent has a bullet proof hat, he's nothing but a scary ass who tries to be hard. how u gone say u down for pac and you gone hol it down til he returns but yet u turn around and make a song wit biggie talkin bout no body better fuck wit biggie, ummm hello 50 is anybody up there or did the bullet to yo face affect yo brain?
11 - duane
Good grief. Sorry, I couldn't help it.
12 - Eric Olsen
How 'bout dat beef between the Fat Boys and the Sugarhill Gang? Yo.
13 - Craig Lyndall
fo real Eric? Fo shizzle you can't be sizzle?
14 - Eric Olsen
Old Navy to you, too
15 - Danzie Mathurin
50 is a little punk who's claim to fame is dissing all the Big Rap Star. Now that he is a star himself he gotta maintain what made him famous by targeting Ja, Ya'll aint seeing that 50 forget links with Jay-z and em' cuz he really dont want and can't handle waring with Heavyweights.....Like Sizzla said. Dem Could never tek mi Bredrin crown.ja rules and reigns..IT'S Murder. fuck that five-0 muda fucker
16 - brian
fuck all yall ja fool is asinger not a rapper.ja rule has never seen the insideof a jail cell.
50 cent wacthed his mom get shot and die.ja follis still sucking on his moms ugly tits.
50 cent respects 2 pac
SHADY RECORDS FOR LIFE DR DRE SNOOP EMIENM ICE CUBE . WAREN G.MACK 10.NATE DOG ,XZIBIT. 50 CENT ,THEY MADE RAP THE WAY IT IS NOW . FUCK MURDER INC
17 - Craig Lyndall
Are you kidding me with this? Bwahahaha. Talking like you have some street credibility on an internet message board in type-written format. That is some commitment. Word.
18 - pac
50 represents pac? hell no. he has no skills what so ever. have u ever heard him live? hes horrible. he doesnt even write his own shit. u gotta giv ja credit cuz hes not just a performer, but also a song writer. and if his goal is to be the next pac, then let it be his goal. respect him for wanting to be like the best rapper of all time. being the next pac is a goal every rapper should have
19 - mike
um, pac is about the gayest rapper of all time. he maybe had a few good songs. im not saying i like 50, but hes a shitload better than ja rule, who isnt even a rapper, hes a singer. his music sucks and he couldnt rap his way out of a wet paper bag. pac may have gotten shot 5 times but 50 got shot 9 times. so how can you say hes a scardy cat? even if he was, i think i would be too after getting shot 9 times. i dont see how anyone could like the murder inc label, theyre all just a bunch of faggots who have no talent. ja is just so full of himself too. thinking that 50 hated on him because he was getting love from people during their shoot. i think that great boofest at the source awards might deflate that ego of his, and might help him realize HE SUCKS AND NO ONE LIKES HIM
20 - skillo
some ya'll have no idea what ya'll talikn about.50 cent is scared as hell and he cant be like 2pac.how can you walk around wit about 20 security guards for.he always talks about being shot nine times and i dont even think he did get shot nine times.i think 50 cent and the g-unit are more scared than ja because ja is the only one you heard lookin' for 50 but 50 tries to hide.50 aint no gangstar coz gangstars know how to shoot while 50 does not know he got starbed by black child while his gun was around his waist.50 you need to think about what those people write for you to sing.holla bac
21 - Brian
ill say this one more time for all of you to understand. JA FOOL is a BITCH.
he's never been to jail . u know why he's a bitch .when eminem whent up to him at the mtv awards , eminem asked him ther and then infornt of all of murder inc if he had a problem with him or . and ja said NO! .....
murder inc is a bunch of racist fagets.
listen people they are NOT RAPPERS.
please understand the real rappers are
2 pac,dre,ice cube,mack10,eazy e,eminnem .
eminem has real good songs.and he's a reall good free styler
send me back messages if u have something to say
22 - nuthaday
fuckin pussys! ja nuthin but a lil boy. and we should let 50 & em ride on his bitch ass.
23 - Jonathan
heh. It all sounds like a big boring publicity stunt to me.
24 - dustin
50 rules and ja's a fag we all know that ja will never stand up he a punk. and thats all there is to it!!!!
25 - Churrky
All fags had better keep hell their mouth shut coz Ja is bad as the worse of 50 but as good as 2pac. So all Ape's brotha dat got shot 9 times is a hell scary story. I think Ja deserve all it takes as a top rapperz of all time like 2pac. Ja is not the swiftest, not the strongest neither is he the greatest but he is simply the KING of all Rapperz. And if you don't know you gat to know!