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50cent and Ja Rule beef
The hip-hop industry has a lot of verbal violence and sometimes physical. Two of the biggest hip-hop artist of all time were assassinated less then a decade ago due to verbal violence shot back and forth at each other. Tupac was assassinated by a hit ordered by Biggie because Tupac slept with Biggie’s wife at the time. Once Tupac was killed, it came back to Biggie and he was killed by someone from Deathrow records. The hip-hop industry can be very dangerous if you don’t watch what you say about others. Could the 50 cent and Ja Rule beef turn into another Tupac and Biggie incident?
There are many theories about why 50 cent (Curtis Jackson) and Ja Rule(Jeffrey Atkins) have beef. According to Ja Rule, when 50 first came out, Ja Rule was shooting a video on Jamaica Ave., Queens. This is where Ja Rule and other large hip-hop artist grew up, and he had everyone that he knew in the video. 50 used to live on this street too, and the director said he should also be in the video. 50 and Ja met and 50 said something he shouldn’t really have said. He told Ja Rule the way he’s going to make it to the top is that he was going to diss the biggest hip-hop artist to make his way to fame. Ja Rule didn’t say anything to this and just let it go. 50's first album, “Power of a Dollar”, had a track named “How to Rob”, and it is about how he is going to rob all the artists in the hip-hop industry and dissed them during the song.
Now according to 50 Cent, the beef started in 2000 when a friend robbed Ja Rule for some jewellery. After the robbery Ja informed Irv Gotti (Ja Rule’s manager) and then he informed Mcgriff which used violence toward the robber. In March of 2000, 50 cent was attacked by a Murder Inc. posse. The Lorenzo’s punched and held 50 down while Gill stabbed him in the chest. 50 was treated for lacerations and he had a partially collapsed lung. Two months later 50 was shot nine times while in a car in front of his grandmothers house in southeast Queens. In a recent poll for the fans to choose sides on the 50 cent and Ja Rule beef, there is a great difference between the two. 50 cent has a higher rating then Ja Rule wish he had. 50 cent is at 77% and Ja Rule is a 10%. It seems to me that 50 Cent would obviously win this battle if it ever came to violence because of how much back-up and respect he has from everyone. Ja Rule on the other hand is a known as a sell-out and he thinks that he is still hardcore and a gangster. 50 cent has the respect from Eminem and Dr. Dre, which are the two biggest “bodyguards” in the hip-hop industry today. Also, 50's personal friends known as G-Unit (which consist of about 30 rappers and are all close friends), and Obie Trice are other people that are new to the hip-hop industry. Right now 50 has more then 50% of hip-hop artist covering his back meanwhile Ja Rule has Murder Inc. Which are about 15 close friends. Fans don’t understand why Ja Rule is coming back with beef toward 50 when 50 could take care of the problem with one “phone call” to have him dismissed from the music industry forever. In the end, this beef will end up one way or the other. It could end up like Tupac and Biggie’s beef did by being shot for making records dissing each other. On the other hand they could drop the beef and make records with each other and make it a #1 hit and all is well. No one wants to see another two big-time artists disappear because of beef between each other, like Tupac and Biggie had less then a decade ago.
Post je objavljen 06.08.2007. u 14:08 sati.