50 Cent has responded to Ja Rule’s request for an Instagram Live battle in typical 50 Cent fashion — with a meme.
On Tuesday (April 14), the For Life producer photoshopped Ja’s head onto a homeless person’s body. He’s holding a sign that reads, “I will battle 50 Cent for attention” and has a cup sitting next to him with dollar bills stuffed inside.
He wrote in the caption, “Stupid #fryfestival” next to an eyeball emoji, a misspelled reference to the infamously botched Fyre Festival.
The battle talk started brewing on Sunday (April 12) when Fat Joe and Swizz Beatz were chopping it up on Instagram Live for The Fat Joe Show. As Ja listened in for part of the session, the two veteran Hip Hop artist tossed around the idea of hosting a IG Live battle between Ja and his famous foe.
“Ja Rule is sayin’ he loves Hip Hop first and foremost and he wants to do this for the culture,” Joe said in the clip. “C’mon, you guys want the smoke for real.”
Fat Joe & Ja Rule Bombard Swizz Beatz With 50 Cent Battle Request
Ja hopped on the phone and said, “I want all the smoke! I’ll behave [laughs],” to which Swizz said, “That sounds like a devilish ‘behave.’”
50 and Ja have been going back-and-forth for years. This is just another chapter in their colorful history.
Ja aint got no hits unless he has a woman singing on it
LOL so? Drake sings like a woman and he is the biggest rapper in the world.
irrelevant rebuttal
? you sure? Cause i thought this is that same JA that dmx and jay-z wanted to make a trio album with.??♂️
Word that’s
what I thought
Okay? 50s hits are all pop songs too. Still good songs on both their parts. Pop rap back then was great. Today’s pop rap sucks. Yesterday’s pop rap was harder than today’s gangster rappers. Also, Ja Rules best work was not as popular, because it was more murder rap than pop related.
Who cares it’s battle if the songs Ja way deeper on the hit list we will see if it pops off
People got killed over this beef. Ja and Irv tried to blackball 50 out the game and stop him from feeding his family. Now Ja wants to be all KumBiYah like its water under the bridge. 50 will never breathe life back into those guys.
Lol you ain’t from Queens clearly boy, don’t be speaking on ish you know nothing about. D.O. was shot on 177th by a dude’s little brother that he had robbed a few years prior. D.O. never even signed to Murder Inc.
Yeah, 50 cent only had $50 million plus! If he got black balled, his family would have starvedddd. What family did 50 even have back then? He didn’t have children he was catering to, just children he was not being a father to.
homie the blackballing was was before the record deals and Em and Dre. when he was in the streets trying to get out. he aint have no 50 mill when he was beefing with The Inc, they were dead and gone by the time he was really rich. 50 was ALWAYS with his son Marquise until he was around 14. It’s well documented. he was on stage, on tour, in the music videos with G-Unit clothes and chains. He was also supporting Marquise sister (aka another mans child) the whole time. He put her through school and bought her a car.
That’s complete and utter bullshit. One of JA rules top selling albums was R.U.L.E., which came out in 2004, aka a year after Get Rich Or Die Tryin came out. Your gonna tell me 50 didn’t find instant success with one of the top selling rap albums in history, selling over a million in one week? Bullshit.
Nah, that’s bullshit. Murder Inc wasn’t destroyed before all that. Ja Rules most popular music, same with Ashanti, was 2001-2004. 2004 saw one of Jas most succesfull albums, R.U.L.E….. That’s a full year after Get Rich Or Die Tryin came out. You gonna really claim 50 Cent wasn’t rich after his album broke sales records for hiphop instantly? He sold millions in the first week alone. Bullshit he wasn’t rich… And murder Inc wasn’t destroyed until after that album. I mean fuck, why do u think Ja was going back and fourth with diss tracks with Eminem and 50??? Murder Inc wasn’t gone before all those diss tracks, and those diss tracks with Em and 50 ALL came after 2003, that’s a fact. Em wasn’t dropping any music with 50 before that time.
You are right actually! I was wrong about the years. My bad! So, I guess the rap beef and success of JA continued years after the Inc was raided by the federal agents 50 called on them?
Ja had to turn off his comments LOL. so sensitive.
Ja got a post on his stories with a screenshot on how “they’re at 50s neck in his comments to battle Ja” but he had to turn his own comments off cause they were killing him on his own page 10 times as bad. 50 has 24 million more followers than Ja!
I respect Fat Joe the rapper but he likes to instigate too much. Tell Joe to go battle Cuban Link. 🙂
They should add some stipulations to this to make it more interesting …. like loser’s gotta lick Irv Gotti’s anus.
Sounds like a regular afternoon for Ja, that’s no punishment
You can tell Swizz wants no parts of this battle, he knows first hand how G-Unit gets down. He was at the Touch It video shoot. That murder is still “unsolved” to this day despite everyone there seeing it happen.
It’s old beef but for the sake of lyricism, thank you Eminem for gutting the mumble rap genre BTW, lets see the OGs year it up against each other. Show the culture the culture.
I don’t see what people like eminem have agaisnt mumble rap. It is a sub genre. I hate it myself, but why hate on them? Eminem and others need to realize it’s a sub genre, and isn’t meant to be like the music he prefers. No mumble rapper is pretending to be a lyricist or and Mc. How, if the mumble rappers started to claim they are the Goats of hiphop, then sure, call em out.
Because none of the recognized figures ever stepped up to push the idea of actually recognizing the subgenres. Either they don’t see the benefit or are not wise enough to understand. So everybody keeps arguing the same dumb “real hip-hop argument.” Pimp C said his shit ain’t hip-hop. It’s country rap tunes. People recognize Trap Music, Booty Music, and a few others but it’s never been made official. Rock N Roll did that with Heavy Metal, Easy Listening, Soft Rock and all these other subgenres and fans were allowed to rock with their own without confusion. I don’t know why hip-hop still hasn’t gotten to that point.
“When it’s war, it’ll be war to the bitter end. If they ever say we lose, I start it again” He already told us how it goes.
Ja rule is a better rapper.
True. It’s really not close.
Definitely, 50’s strength is in songwriting (and clowning). Off spitting alone Ja use to take heads off, especially before VVV. Don’t know where his skill is at these days tho.
If that was the case, he’d still have a career. Guess his skills stopped paying his bills after 2003?????
50 cant battle Ja via instagram live. People will start to notice that 50s catalog will sound an awful lot like Ja’s. Copy cat ass 50.
Wat u need to go listen again bro u bugging, yeah fifty harmonized some things on his tracks because he writes songs bro the format he was tout to do ja was straight ashanti sing bro, r kelly type shit. Fifty was tellin bout his life and how he was on da street fact is shit he rap bout was either true or shit he was doing, ja was trying to be 50 bro, ja was fo the ladies 50 was for the hood
…………what?!….this is the part when I mug you and drop my cig on the floor and step on it and then me and 8 of my niggas jump and stomp on your ass and take off with your valuables nigga
Sounds like you a real life bitch cant fight your own fights little bitch
y’all know we don’t need them to have the battle, right…..we have their catalogs. Any two random people can get on IG and just play the music
A battle is rapping live new material, no playing your catalog. Thats a producer battle. Yall have forgotten how hip hop works.
50 owns Ja Rule’s Publishing! So everytime U hear the “Black Sonny & Cher (Ja Rule & Ashanti)” on the Airwaves, KA-CHING for 50!!! #WhatBattle #ItsMurderIn50sWallet
these rap niggas act traumatized when it comes to other niggas. nobody wants to hear a bunch of 50 and Ja songs like it’s 2001-2003. a bunch of overcompensating “thug” tapdancing for other “hard niggas”
Overcompensating! Hip-hop is about competition, battling to see who is best non of these gay ass singing niggas who all sound alike cant fucking rap and if they can it anit not shit.dont mistake who you are or be around for being real bro.tap dancing lol 50 bout as real as u can get. You must one of those niggas who only respect niggas who get shot and not the shooter think bout that, stop listening to gay music bro that mumble shit trash invest in listening to real bars
Well said! Fuck drug doing music!
shut yo remedial repressed ass up lol. 50 mumbled dumbed down lyrics on every album but yeah I’m gay even though you’re enjoying a nigga who rapped about being a thug and hard with his shirt off for 85% of his rap career. you butthurt because I don’t want to listen to some irrelevant commercial rap
48 Laws of Power at its finest.
In other news…the San Francisco 49ers have requested another shot at the Chiefs for the title. Ja, you already lost this shit decades ago…it’s over man, it’s over
Lol the 49ers are going to have to wait until next year
Better than ANY 50 cent album
Nope, Get Rich or Die Tryin is way way way better than any anything Ja has ever made.
It’s aged like milk. Sounds shit today.
Nah….you dont need to put Get Rich in these petty arguments…you put that one on all time bests Ja can battle with The Massacre and still lose
Do you even listen to Hip Hop?
Rap is rap, the problem is people always criticize what you all call mumble rap or drug music, they rap about the way life was presented to them. They dont tell others to use drugs and if you dont understand the music it’s because a lot of you dudes to soft arguing over 50 and Ja, who ain’t even relevant anymore in the rap game….
Soft? Are you aware that generations in the past had it harder than the generation that came after them? Kids born in the 2000s have it easier than kids born in the 70s & 80s…..and those kids that were born in the 70s & 80s had it easier than their parents, etc….this current youth culture is SUPER SOFT – jumping people every chance they get, the guys encouraging the girls to fight, recording everything, following every trend that comes out, oh this month everyone is dying their hair green so that’s just what I’ll do cuz I’m so darn hard!!!
Soft? Are you aware that generations in the past had it harder than the generation that came after them? Kids born in the 2000s have it easier than kids born in the 80s…..and those kids that were born in the 80s had it easier than their parents, etc….this current youth culture is SUPER SOFT – jumping people every chance they get, the guys encouraging the girls to fight, recording everything, following every trend that comes out, oh this month everyone is dying their hair green so that’s just what I’ll do cuz I’m so darn hard!!!
So we should argue over who sounds the most retarded in the modern day rap? And no I dont understand why anyone would.want to live a braindead lifestyle
Shut the fuck up, who told you 50 ain’t relevant??? Shit head…
Imagine liking a piece of shit snake as much as you do to get heated when someone says something about them
Yep they all just came up with it themselves no agenda whatsoever (over head truthful)
How can people be interested in the battle of these two clowns? One is the forefather of mumble rap with zero relevant albums in the last 15 years, the other screamed murder in any love songs.
Beause songs like Wonderful, Always on Time and New York still bang.
Said no one ever. New York still bangs because of the beat and the Kiss verse. Ja has the worst flow on the whole fucking song. You’re on dust…
I love Jas flow. It was a byproduct of dmx for sure! I love 50 too. Salty dick riders hating on one or the other gotta listen to both of the rappers underground hits!
So it still bangs then? I never said it banged because of a particular person. You are a moron.
The requirements are that they are supposed to have 20 hits written/rapped whatever. Neither one has that so there is no need for a battle. Swizz said many have reached out but him and Timbo aren’t budging on that 20 number. They both added decent and minimal impact at different stages in their careers. 50 smashed Ja for singing hooks on songs and after he destroyed his career for that 50 did the same shit. I rather not see a battle with 2 men who can’t grow up and are hypocrites. I have liked songs from both and albums I don’t favor either way
Most of what you say is true, particularly about 50 being a fkn hypocrite and a childish pos. If they include songs they featured on they probably would have 20. And it’s not like that’s a steadfast rule anyway. The IG battles over the past couple of weeks have had different numbers of tracks played.
I feel 50 should do it with everything going with the conravirus situation we need some positive competitive fun it’s not on the level of the original beef it’s now just about who has the better music they both have a classic and memorable hit songs it would be fun too watch who would win