Ja Rule Talks the Downfall of Murder Inc & Losing to 50 Cent (@Ruleyork)

Ja Rule has been out of prison for about five months now, and he’s finally ready to talk. The demise of Murder Inc. was extreme and swift, with Ja and Irv Gotti mostly keeping quiet. Now that each of them have moved on, the whole situation is a little easier to talk about.

Irv Gotti and Ja recently came by the Angie Martinez Show, and spoke on the downfall of their label and Ja’s infamous beef with 50 Cent.

“It was a roller coaster because everything–we was going up so fast and everything was happening so fast and then it went ‘shooom.’ It was no slope. It was no dip. It was a straight drop,” said Ja. “And it was weird because I’m really, really a fan-driven artist…I think a lot of people think I was angry at the fans, but I wasn’t as much angry as I was hurt. Because like I said, I did a lot for my fans. It was really a weird time for me and I think out of that came the anger. And then I went into a dark place. And everything was dark for me. Everything that I wanted to do was just angry. My music, the way I moved on the streets.”

When speaking on his unsuccessful beef with 50 Cent, Ja Rule said there were a lot of circumstances that went into what happened.

“It was a lot going on in that time frame,” said Ja. “You got the federal indictment. Here’s what it is, it was orchestrated very well. He was a part of the juggernauts at that moment. Eminem, Dre, they were very, very big in what they were doing as well. So, as we were big over on our side they were also big on their side. And as everything started to crumble for us as far as we didn’t have a label home anymore, ya understand? There was a lot of things that were falling apart for us. It was easy for him to get people to turn on. And there was things that were behind the scenes that y’all don’t see that also made us seem more irrelevant. Like we couldn’t go to awards shows.”

Source: hiphopdx.com