Tony Yayo Recalls 50 Cent 'Beating Up' Ja Rule & Snatching His Chain: 'Fif K.O.'d [Him]'

Tony Yayo has shared his perspective on the time 50 Cent and Ja Rule got physical at the height of their feud.

While the incident is confirmed to have taken place, exactly what went down has been contested, with Ja previously claiming he got the better of 50.

Yayo, however, sees it differently.

Appearing on Million Dollaz Worth of Game, he said: “50 beat Ja Rule up in Atlanta […] Fif K.O.’d that n-gga […] We at the same hotel. I was in the building. N-ggas tried to front on 50.

“Bow! 50 caught him stone cold. He a southpaw — that’s how 50 always knocked out n-ggas in the hood ’cause he’s left-handed.”

The G-Unit rapper continued: “Ja Rule [yells out], ‘Murda!’ That n-gga’s eye [swells up]. So we get in the elevator and that’s when 50 shows us the chain that’s in ‘Wanksta.’ He goes, ‘Look what I got.’ So he snuffed him and yanked him.”

The fight is believed to have taken place in 2000, with Ja Rule giving his version of events in his autobiography, Unruly.

He wrote: “50 tried to swing on me, but I dipped, then I hit him with the baby Louisville Slugger. Bam! I dropped the bat. I pulled the shirt over his head. I started catching him left, right, uppercut.

“I hit him with the crutch. We proceeded to whip his ass. I was putting in my work. 50 was crunched in the corner. I slammed the big tannoy speaker down on him.”

Last year, Ja Rule revisited the event during an interview with Piers Morgan.

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Morgan asked the former Murder Inc. rapper who would win in a fight between him and 50, to which he replied: “That’s happened already too, Piers. You gotta do your research.”

Asked who came out on top, Ja answered: “I did, Piers.”

The incident was also detailed by Chris Gotti, co-founder of Murder Inc. Records, who said in 2016: “We see him in Atlanta…Ja and 50 walk off, talking. Rule got that big voice. You hear him: ‘I don’t know you. Why are you making these records?’

“50 snuffed him…You wanna hear the real story? Ja took the snuff. Takes him. Has his shirt over his head. Hitting him right back. Gets out of his shirt and he starts running…Gets away. That’s what happened that day.”

50 himself has never commented on the claims that he lost a fight to Ja Rule.