Ja Rule is full steam ahead on the school he’s building in Ghana, and he’s keeping fans updated on the progress along the way.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday (November 26), the New York native shared a series of photos showing the structure is in place and the roof has been installed.
“My school in Ghana is looking beautiful can’t wait till it’s finished…” he captioned it. “sending my love and big thank you to Pencils of promise for giving me the opportunity to help change lives…”
You can view the pictures below.
Ja Rule announced the philanthropic project at the top of the year, taking to X to share his excitement.
“I’m also building a school in Ghana can’t wait to go and break ground… Rule love the kids!!!” he wrote alongside a series of emojis including an orange heart, sun and sunrise.
Ja Rule is not the first rapper to offer education in Ghana. In 2017, Lil Jon teamed up with the non-profit organization Pencils of Promise to open two schools in the West African country.
The construction — funded by a $70,000 donation from the producer — included a kindergarten and primary school located in the Asuogyaman District of eastern Ghana. Children previously attended school in sheds and class would often be canceled due to bad weather.
In an Instagram post the following year, Lil Jon wrote: “Last year I went with my family to open up my first Pencils of Promise school in Ghana, and now to have over 300 kids already enrolled in my second school there is incredible.
“It’s been really fulfilling to see the impact these schools have made on so many of these children’s and families’ futures.”
Meanwhile, in music news, Ja Rule announced in January that he had signed a new label deal “potentially worth $100 million.”
“Just signed my new label deal potentially worth a hundred mill… LFG!!!” he wrote on X. “Thanks for the love and to the haters SMD.”
The “Always On Time” hitmaker also teased a new album, which will mark his first in over a decade. His last studio effort, Pain Is Love 2, came out in 2012.
Africa sold us into slavery. Why are we giving them reparations?
🤫 you’re not supposed to say it was blacks in Africa who sold their own people into slavery. And especially you aren’t supposed to say who controlled the transatlantic slave trade, owned the slave ships and plantations (hint: they wear tiny hats and have hook noses). According to the official narrative we are supposed to blame whitey!
You got the name Gem Lord but say some of the dumbest stuff. Long removed ancestors definitely had a hand in it, but what years are we talking about? Should the soil be salted? Or should children of a new generation have a school to learn
How did Africa sell you? The white man took people..
Every single black man that got sold to the white man was caught by rival black tribes FIRST. Do your homework. Many of black people just hear what they want to hear but refuse to accept the parts for which blacks are responsible for. You think 400-200 years ago white people could even have TRIED to round up and catch scores of black people, scattered around in villages, all over the continent without even a proper road system or maps? NOPE. Tribal warfare created slaves, slaves got sold to arabs and whites. Arabs kept black slaves way longer than white people but only whitey got blamed for slavery while hordes of blacks sold out to the nation of islam. Just because they brown the arabs got a pass. Only seeing what you want to see makes you dumb as shit.
Wow, great. This is what I call flexing. Go Ja Rule!
Ja also said Fyre Festival was gonna be lit…
I see the subject of slavery as come up in the comments. Yes Africans sold their own people. At some point we have to move forward. We forever looking backwards.
I love bringing up these slave facts. It shuts people up because they’re uneducated and surprised to hear someone argue it wasn’t white people. They only blame whites because they’re jealous of whitey’s success.