While the love has been pouring in lately for Murder Inc. due to recent Verzuz performances, concerts or interviews, label honchos Ja Rule and Irv Gotti want people to know that hasn’t always been the case.
Ja and Irv sat down with Billboard for their 2002 week to rehash their chart dominance in the early 2000s. But the pair of hitmakers believe there’s been some revisionist history when it comes to Murda Inc’s epic run creating the soundtrack to a ton of Millennials’ formative years.
“We were talking earlier about how I do shows now and people don’t remember the time and songs they were hating on, like ‘Wonderful’ and ‘Mesmerize,'” Ja explained. “‘Mesmerize’ was a big record, but n-ggas were hating on me. You would never know that.”
Gotti echoed a similar sentiment claiming a ton of the Murder Inc. faithful are much more proud of their fandom these days compared to at some points in the early 2000s when the crew was the butt end of jokes and entrenched in feuds with the likes of 50 Cent.
“You know what’s funny,” Gotti said. “A lot of you Murder Inc. fans — those appreciative of our music — are coming out of the woodworks now. It’s cool now to love Murder Inc.”
Murder Inc. fans will have the chance to relive the label’s scorching run at the turn-of-the-century two decades later through the MURDER INC. documentary coming to BET this summer.
‘Untold’ Story Of Irv Gotti & Ja Rule's Murder Inc. Records To Be Told In BET Docuseries
The five-part doc features contributions from all of the key contributors to Murder Inc’s legacy outside of Ashanti, who declined to participate.
It never was lol
They were never cool. He was always trying to copy somebody else’s style and was corny AF. He was lucky to have a fruitful two year run of success before his career fizzled out. Perv Gotti aka Suge Light-Skinned (Who was so deep into Ashanti at that time that she was too “Foolish” to see he was robbing her) and Ja Fool (a midget clone imitation of DMX,Very Bad Impersonation of Tupac,The Cookie Monster, and Craig Mack (RIP)
Ouch tell us how you really feel
He’s right, and it was for good reason. Once they got busy making love records and acting like they were real mob dudes at the same time, they became extremely corny…and they’re still corny for that reason. That stink ain’t washing off…
It was until it wasn’t? These fools wanna try to rewrite history 20 years later. Ja was on top of the world. He thought he brand was too big to come down. That’s why he turned down doing more Fast Furious movies. He thought he was up there with Jay. Then Wanksta dropped. Then I smell P dropped, and Back Down and Get Rich or Die Trying. Then he dissed Em and Dre, and people were like Nah, we out. Then Hail Mary, Bump Heads, S hit Hit the Fan and things really got out of hand for Ja.
After Pain Is Love, it all went downhill. Maybe Ja could have extended his career a little more had he not beef with G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath, evolved past the R&B thug shtick, and refrained from speaking on tragic events. Oh, and Fyre Festival.
20 years later people still in the comments hating!!! 50 Cent and G Unit fooled everybody into hating on Murder Inc but turned around and did the same shit Murder Inc was doing. That’s why G Unit fell off ????
Your mom fell off my dick after I busted a nut now STFU
Shut up Irv, its over.
Ya mom is a crackhead and Kim is known sL*t so what’s hailey gone be when she grows up. Murdaaaaaaa!!!
And…It was at this moment that he knew he f’d up
THEY TRIED TOO HARD TO EMULATE PUFFS FORMULA OF HIP HOP AND R&B AND BLEND IT WITH THE WORST OF THE DEATH ROW ERA. OBVIOUSLY THEY COULDN’T KEEP THE ACT GOING.
anybody remember that freestyle where he misspelled murder inc ?” I really don’t care to stand, but 50 you gonna get shot again by the M-U-R-E-D-R Inc “ Loose change is the song look it up.