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Ja Rule most definitely did not always suck. I'd go as far as saying that Veni Vetti Vecci is one of my favorite hip hop albums of all time. Rule 3:36 was pretty tight too. But after I bought Pain is Love, I was so disappointed that I gave it away to some girl who loved one of the stupid love songs on it.
I stopped paying attention to Ja Rule altogether after that and I didn't hear anything about him again until he started beefing with 50 Cent.
I read an interview with him (I forget what magazine, sorry), and he brought up what I almost thought was kind of an interesting point. Well, a couple points really.
1. 50 raps about being gangster and all. But he's been shot 9 times. Real gangsters are supposed to be the ones getting shot, they're supposed to be the ones doing the shooting. The ones who get shot are the product of what gangsters do to "bitch ass niggas".
2. 50 blasted on Ja for singing in songs and doing love songs or whatever, but if you noticed, 50 started doing the exact same thing shortly after his first album. "21 Questions" was one thing, but shit like "Magic Stick" and other songs that I don't even want to think of right now were basically using the same formula that Ja Rule was using.
Honestly, I think 50 is overrated, and Ja USED to be good, but I really don't see myself buying albums from either of them unless something changes my mind.
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