Ja Rule (real name Jeffrey Atkins) has accomplished a lot throughout the course of his over two-decade career — multiple No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 singles, multi-platinum albums and Grammy Award nominations. Now, the 44-year-old Queens native can add Harvard Business School graduate to the list.
The Murder Inc. vet took to Twitter on Tuesday (February 2) to show off a certificate from the Ivy League university that read: “Jeffrey Atkins has successfully completed the Harvard business School Online Certificate Program [for] Entrepreneurship Essentials.
“This certificate program introduces a framework—People, Opportunity, Context, Deal—to evaluate opportunities, manage start-ups, and finance ventures.”
Ja captioned the post, “I ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer buuuuut.”
Despite the 2017 Fyre Festival disaster, Ja Rule has always been entrepreneurial minded and appears to be putting his latest accolade to use. In a 2020 interview with HipHopDX, Ja Rule talked about his fascination with the tech space while discussing his ICONN app.
“I love tech space, man,” he said. “It gives you that creative feeling again, like whether you first get in the lab and start making records and shit, and you’re like, ‘Will this work? Will people like this how me and my n-ggas like this?’ It’s like we got a secret. We about to let this secret loose to the world.
“That’s how I feel like with tech. I’m not recreating the wheel, man. I’m creating it for the culture. That’s the fucking difference. It’s other live platforms. It’s other platforms that let you monetize your content, but it ain’t ICONN, trust what the fuck I’m telling you.”
Ja Rule Explains How His ICONN App Is Different From Fyre Fest App
Last week, he blasted the Robinhood app after learning the app wouldn’t let potential investors trade certain stocks that have created a buzz within the Wall Street Bets Reddit community.
“Yo this is a fucking CRIME what @RobinhoodApp is doing DO NOT SELL!!! HOLD THE LINE… WTF,” he tweeted. “They hedge fund guy shorted these stocks now we can’t buy them ppl start selling out of fear… we lose money they make money on the short… THIS IS A FUCKING CRIME!”
N****, it’s a 4 week course that’s 1200 bucks. It doesn’t make you a scholars, it just means you can read, write,count money, and file your taxes. (remember to do that actually this time around) Try earning an MBA from Harvard then he can talk trash all he wants.
You really trying to clown a mans accomplishment when you can’t even use proper grammar? Lol
You’re really trying to criticize a man’s grammar with incorrect grammar?
They need to take “graduate” out of the title. He didn’t earn shit, they’re giving him fake clout for taking a class a 13 year old could pass. Fucking embarrassing trash website with dumbass editors
Props on bettering himself with this course but he is not a Harvard graduate, nor does he hold a degree. That certificate is the equivalent of a participation ribbon.
Lol sounds like you don’t have any accolades lol
this is that same 4-week business course Swizz Beatz took when he was celebrating like he earned a Ph.D in quantum physics from MIT
Somewhere around the corner, Mario is lurking… waiting to stomp….One Final Goomba….LMAO!!!
This headline is misleading. ??????????????
Damn, why so much negativity? The man did something positive and everybody just wants to belittle him…He’s proud of himself, as he should be! I don’t get it, am I missing something here???
A degree is not the same as a online class certification.
People hate on anything smh. And for the record he never said he was a Harvard graduate, he was just proud of himself for taking a course increasing his business acumen. Half of y’all read a misleading headline and jump straight to the comments. Now who’s the real dummy?
I would respect a diploma from DeVry more than this
Lol. You shitted on DeVry. LoL
Rule…come on bruh….an online certification? You deserved to get clowned for that because that did not need to be shared!
Same guy involved in the island concert scam, nah I’m good on your advice Jeffrey.
I’m sure you’re doing better?
It’s not a huge accomplishment, but let the man show off something small. I got my Bachelor’s at 29 and was too embarrassed to even post anything about it on social media (since I was 29 while everyone else in my graduating class was 22) because of stuff like this.
Black people in America will do anything just to hate on someone from their own race, Just like in this comment section!!! No other race of people in America acts this way!!! No one why other races of people looks down on us because the way we treat each other!!! Black people are the only race in America who refuses to get along with each other?FACTS
Although I agree with you on a general level, in this particular situation, someone of any race would have gotten clowned for. Dude clearly posted an online course certificate with “Harvard” in the title looking for attention.
How a good morning boss