For two decades, 50 Cent has targeted Ja Rule with unrelenting attacks, stemming from their shared admiration for Supreme, a mutual figure from their past. When Supreme favored Ja over 50, their rivalry escalated into violence, culminating in Ja's abrupt silence. Although 50 seemingly triumphed by dismantling Ja's career, the true reason behind Ja's silence reveals a deeper story. The conflict between Ja Rule and 50 Cent raises questions about the actual outcome of their long-standing feud.
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00:00 50 Cent has been relentlessly attacking Ja Rule for 20 years.
00:04 I'm not like, I just got rat beef with this n***a. I don't like this n***a.
00:08 50 destroyed Ja's career by humiliating him publicly.
00:12 50 Cent buys first 200 seats at Ja Rule's concert.
00:16 He's finished, because I said he's finished.
00:18 And when Ja tried to hit back, their fight got out of control, until he lost everything, even his own family.
00:25 Now be careful, you fell on top of me.
00:28 Then, all of a sudden, Ja went silent.
00:31 It seemed like 50 had won, but we discovered the real reason Ja was forced into silence.
00:37 This is the truth of what happened.
00:40 I see him in Atlanta, new to a friend of ours, and he's like, "Yo Ja, you know, 50 just want to talk to you about the whole situation that's going on."
00:47 "Will you talk to him?" You know, I see him, "We'll talk."
00:49 I got a bat, I'm holding the bat like this.
00:51 I see him, the talk got heated because I got mad and I started screaming at him.
00:55 So he swings at me. He punched me. And then hit him with the bat. Boom!
00:57 But that's when the real, real beef started.
00:59 Ja Rule was at the height of his career under music label Murder, Inc., when 50 Cent started an all-out war against him.
01:06 Not only was we winning, we was dominating.
01:09 Murder, Inc., we were on the brink of doing big things.
01:12 He didn't like the fact that I was getting so much love. It was immediate brawl.
01:16 Yo, 50, what's the definition of a wankster?
01:18 Ja Rule.
01:19 The people that you see like Ja are f******. Like these f****** don't got no hood in them.
01:24 He didn't come up under the same type of circumstances. He wasn't forced to actually fend for himself that early.
01:30 But what 50 didn't know was that Ja grew up without a dad and did anything to support his family.
01:35 I'm 12, 13 years old. I came home from school and there was a fiction notice on the door.
01:39 It wasn't the first time. My mom, she broke down.
01:42 She didn't really have an answer for what was going to be our next situation.
01:47 At that moment, I became a man.
01:50 Whatever I had to do from this point, I'll do to help my mom.
01:54 Ja started selling drugs and looked up to Drug Lord Supreme, but so did someone else.
01:58 50 growing up under the Supreme Team, 50 grew up idolizing that.
02:02 I was raised under the Supreme Team. I love him more than anybody alive on this planet. We have a special bond.
02:09 But when Ja found out he was going to be a dad, he knew he had to provide more for his growing family.
02:14 He started making music with Supreme's help.
02:17 Drug Lord and gangster Supreme manages up-and-coming rapper Ja Rule under music label Murder, Inc.
02:22 Ja Rule was smashing records and topping the charts.
02:25 You're at the height of your career. You got hits on hits on hits.
02:28 But when 50 started making his own music, Supreme didn't support him.
02:32 And instead of going after him, 50 attacked Ja.
02:35 He wanted to be loved by Supreme. He didn't want to be a manager or whatever the fuck you wanted him to be.
02:41 It's not like I just got rap beef with this s***. I don't like this little s***.
02:45 Ja fought back, but it only made things worse.
02:48 Rule was in the studio. We hear Rule going crazy.
02:51 Rule's like, "He's here. 50, he's here. He's in the building. And I want to get him. Let's get him now."
02:56 It got a little violent. A couple people were stabbed. Some severe injuries.
03:00 He took like a laceration to the stomach. A few stitches and whatever.
03:04 There came a point in time where McGriff decided that 50 Cent had to go.
03:08 Rapper 50 Cent shot nine times but survives.
03:12 Ja thought 50 outed Supreme to the police because soon they were being watched very closely.
03:17 We're being investigated by the feds.
03:19 So now the police go see him while he's in this hospital bed damn near dying.
03:24 Talk to us. We'll protect you. Just give us a few minutes.
03:27 This all starts to take a nasty little turn into us.
03:31 They try to say that Murder 8 was financed by Supreme's drug money.
03:35 On one end, we got rap beef going on. And then on the other end, real s***.
03:41 It was a situation like, "Please Ja, don't say nothing right now.
03:45 Everything you say can and will be used against us in the court of law."
03:49 And because I couldn't react if it went on and it became bigger, I love my brothers more than anything.
03:55 So I'm not going to jeopardize their life with a silly rap beef.
03:59 It just made for a difficult time for me.
04:02 Ja stayed silent to protect Supreme while 50 blew up.
04:06 50 Cent mania is in full effect.
04:09 In hip-hop, when you are the top dog, whatever you say is law.
04:13 Nobody likes Ja. Can't even get a show. It's finished. Because I said he's finished.
04:18 I've never seen an artist get flipped on like Ja.
04:21 Publicly, it was a dominant victory for 50.
04:24 The rap sensation doesn't only make music.
04:26 A lot of people were shocked when you had lost all this weight, 60 pounds,
04:31 when you're playing the role of a football player with cancer.
04:33 50 destroyed Ja's career. And when Ja was arrested, he lost the only thing he had left, his real family.
04:41 Your daughter was like, "My dad wasn't there when he was locked up."
04:43 And then when he wasn't locked up, he was on the road.
04:45 I think up until this point, I missed the point of what life was about.
04:49 When I went to prison, the only thing I missed was football games, you know, with my boys, being with my daughter, my wife.
04:55 I didn't miss being out on the road and doing tours.
04:59 Things I missed were little things, man. The things that really matter in life.
05:03 Ja realized he hadn't been the father his family needed and knew he had to make a change.
05:08 This second phase of my life, I'm going to enjoy it, enjoy my family.
05:13 I really have to take responsibility for my own actions.
05:17 And I encourage my kids to do the same.
05:20 Don't go pointing fingers. At the end of the day, look at yourself and say, "Why did I put myself in this situation?"
05:26 I've endured and bared all of that and came out on the other side of it.
05:31 We've been having this ongoing feud now for like 15 years.
05:35 Yeah.
05:35 I think it's time that we've grown past it.
05:38 I am removing myself from the circus.
05:41 But 50 continued attacking Ja instead of focusing on being the father his son needed.
05:47 50 Cent said that he bought out the first 200 seats at the Ja Rule show.
05:50 50 Cent's oldest son Marquise said, "I listened to a lot of Ja Rule."
05:55 I don't have a relationship with him.
05:57 50, you love your son?
05:58 I used to.
05:59 He thinks I'm entitled when that's not the case.
06:01 It's never been about the money for me.
06:03 It's more so the relationship.
06:04 By letting go of his feud with 50, Ja Rule focused on what was most important in his life,
06:10 being a good dad to his family.
06:12 I wouldn't change anything because what I've done in my life allows for where we're at now.
06:17 I'm living comfortably and my family's taking care of us.
06:19 We grew up with nothing and they grew up with something.
06:22 And that is what I work hard for, so that we break that cycle.
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