In an interview with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on an episode of their “Drink Champs” podcast that is set to release Friday (April 1), Ja details the first time he met Suge Knight.
“Suge come over to the studio and shit and niggas is all in their shit,” he says. “Niggas is like, ‘What’s up?’ Niggas is on point because you know, niggas heard stories about this nigga. We ain’t never met him.”
Knight came to see the Murder Inc. rapper because Ja used a Tupac sample for a track on his album. Ja got the clearance for the West Coast legend’s vocals while Knight was in jail and the mogul wanted to stop by the studio.
“I was in LA recording the joint,” Ja recalls. “Suge calls the studio that we in over there. He’s like, ‘Yeah, I wanna speak to Rule.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, who’s this?’ He’s like, ‘It’s Suge.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, shit. What up, big homie. What’s happenin? Welcome home, nigga. whatever. Whatever.’ So this is, Suge’s a funny nigga. This nigga says, ‘Where you at right now?’ I said, ‘Nigga, you called me, nigga. You know where I’m at, nigga. I’m over at the studio. Come over here.'”
Once he was on his way to the studio, Irv Gotti, Ja Rule’s label boss, was not pleased.
“Gotti was hot,” Ja remembers. “He was mad. He’s like, ‘Why a nigga ain’t holler at me?'”
Once Knight arrived, Gotti stepped in.
“Gotti came in, he’s like, ‘Let me holler at you'” the “Always on Time” rapper says. “So they go talk. They do their little talk.”
Jadakiss is also expected to appear on the “Drink Champs” next episode, which is set to include the full interview with Ja Rule.
Watch the clip of Ja Rule recalling Suge Knight visiting him in the studio below:
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Is this like Drinking With Khloe but with rappers? LOL
wtf is drinking with Khloe? The Kardashian? I hope you’re not a grown man
Gotti was Hot. (As in Irv)
Ja Rule a real one. #fuckfame #ruleyork #ruletalk #2014 #2015 #2016
ITS KRAZY HOW NIGGAS TALK BIG SHIT ABOUT SUGE WHEN HE IS LOCK UP LOL!! BITCH NIGGAS FREE BIG.SUGE 1700.662 FORLIFE!!
Fuck Suge and fuck you too. That’s on my mamma nigga.
He thought ja was a timid type of nigga that quickly would bend for him, Thumbs up… Respect u for this one
“The rapper was ready for the confrontation, but Irv Gotti stepped in to intervene.”… LOL sure Ja, funny how he’s not telling this story until years later when big bad Suge is locked up and cant get at him
They were all in the same spot that day, seems like nothing happened… Suge ain’t shit without the goons, just asked the barber that knocked his ass out
got nembutal? i need that eternal sleep
MY ALBUM IS DONE, I REPEAT, MY ALBUM IS DONE! I COULD’VE DROPPED THIS SH*T BACK IN DECEMBER BUT MY MONEY WASN’T RIGHT. NOW I GOT A FEW DOLLARS TO WORK WITH. IF I DON’T BELIEVE IN MYSELF THEN WHO WILL, SO AS OF TODAY I’M LABELING MYSELF TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE BEST EMCEE IN DETROIT! I DON’T CARE ABOUT OUT OF TOWN RAPPERS STATS , I ONLY CARE ABOUT MY STATS IN MY CITY & I SAY THAT I’M TOP 5 DEAD OR ALIVE!
WHO F**KING WITH MY CATALOG? I STILL DON’T HEAR NO RESPONSES, NOW I’M TALKING S**T BECAUSE I BEEN PLOTTING THIS S**T FOR 2 YEARS!
ON SOME ONE ON ONE BATTLE S**T, I’LL EAT ANY RAPPER ALIVE, AND MY FREESTYLE AIN’T THAT BAD, DON’T SLEEP ON MY NO PEN OR PAD GAME. I TALK S**T BECAUSE I CAN BACK ALL OF THIS S**T UP, GET AT ME! I’m not mad, I’m just human like everybody else, my opinion counts too!!
M.U. Tha Don is Ghost
NEW ALBUM COMING SOON!
HAHAHAHA!!!
2016 is mine!!!!!
People should respect Suge,he wasn’t born yesterday.This is Bompton homey.
Why is Chris Brown fighting with this guy? He has a long prosperous future ahead of him how belittle of himself. Wow
dont believe anything ja and irv say lol
50 Stan alert!!! 50 still snitching and taking Ls
“He was like, I thought i killed tupac?!”
“And i was like, plz forgive me bruh”
Ja that nigga mane
Ja is a b***h and Irv is a wanna be. Lame. Suge should of smashed both of them on site for disrespecting Pac’s vocals.
Suge never getting out of jail. fat sorry bitch