Vita, who rapped alongside Ja Rule and Ashanti for years, says Murder Inc. was unable to live up to its full potential.
“I don’t think the we, as a crew, got to go as far as we were supposed to because, mostly, everyone was scared of the game,” Vita says in an interview with Billboard. “We couldn’t do in-stores cause of the name. There was a lot backlash.”
Vita began working with Murder Inc. due to her work under Hype Williams, who managed her. Hype also directed Belly, a film featuring Nas and DMX, which also included Vita as one of DMX’s love interests.
Vita Discusses Role In Hype Williams’ Belly
“They were looking for a 16-year old who was feisty for Belly,” she says. “I auditioned three times and got the role of DMX’s girl on the side. When I got the role, I thought I was [going to be] doing more but when the movie got cut, there was only a bedroom scene and car scene. I went and told my mom that I didn’t want people to look down on me because of the role and she reassured me that it was just a role. There was a backlash. Some said, ‘Why do black women have to get on screen and do certain things? White women do it too though.’ People aren’t going to love everything you do. There was backlash against the movie. They were saying it was more violent than the average movie that was playing at the time. Hype [Williams] spent a lot of his own money on the movie. It wasn’t in all movie theaters because of the backlash.”
Vita Announces Pre-Cumm Mixtape
Vita says she is now working on her Pre-Cumm mixtape. “The title was for shock value,” she says. “I’m sitting over 50 songs that I recorded instead of chasing the industry.”
She says she is working with different rappers, including Da Drat, on various projects.
Vita is also working on what she calls “a sexy and classy lingerie line.” She’s also working on a book and a reality television series.
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Didnt know the Psvita is a woman and can talk, awesome!
If your mom wasn’t on crack back then you would have sense now.
They couldn’t go far because the label was drawn around 1 main artist. Irv should have had all his artist have their own identity and maybe they would have had a better chance of surviving the beef with 50. Not to mention Ja made way too many pop hits instead of hip hop. I wish Vita the best
Murder Inc. was the YMCMB of those days
NOOOOO
Da Drat haha DX sort it out
Belly wasn’t playing in all theatres cause they knew it was going to flop.
THANKS TO GODFATHER 50
DATS WHAT IRV AND JA GET FOR TRYNA TO BLACK BALL NIGGAS OUT THE GAME
how teh fudge yall missing spelling “DA BRAT” name in your post ? you dont have no one to proof read what your posting smfh and belly was in movie theaters
Belly wasn’t playing in ALL the theaters.
These murder inc bums sure love talking about the good old days.
Nigga…stop hating
she looks like a worm ill fuck her though
cos worms got eyes, nose & lips grow up
Cuz DMX,50,Eminem,G-Unit, The Game, Obie Trice, Dr Dre, D12 diss the shit outta those fake wanna be gangstas over at Murder Inc
STUIPID….DID YOU FORGET THE FUCKING case against the Gotti brothers trial in 2004/5 which shut the label down
Didnt Ja Rule, Murder Inc, Yukmouth, The Regime, Kurupt, Death Row, Royce da 5’9, Nas (and Benzino) [Hell even Bang em Smurf n Domination who were G-Unit as well) diss them too. Guess what Royce ate D12, Yukmouth punked Game, Smurf n Domo punked Game n Fif, Nas ate 50, Murder Inc ate G-Unit CMON GIVE UP….
Be real only reason Ja Rule ‘went irrelevant’ was because he was going against the “MEDIA’S CASHCOW’ now look at 50 the same shit happened to him after going at Rick Ross & Wayne…….COINCIDENCE
difference is Ross ain’t never been half the star 50, Ja or Wayne were
Ross is MORE than the star then those clowns once were.
Nicely written article by Andres Retardio.
If a good enough rapper with a real good buzz beefs with YMCMB, they gonna end up like Murder inc. too.
Negative!!!!!!!!!
I quit working at shoprite and now I make $35h $80hhow? Im working online! My work didnt exactly make me happy so I decided to take a chance on something new after 4 years it was so hard to quit my day job but now I couldnt be happier. Heres what I do, http://www.Fb39.Com
If its so easy why his album is not considered a future classic album like Kendricks?
I mean not even highly talked about…
I kinda halfway remember this chick.
her nose looks like a pug and that aint cute