If you were still a Ja Rule fan by 2005 then I don't think you'd be that surprised. 50 was already falling out by then with that weak ass Massacre album.
Ja Rule: "I'm removing myself for the beef" Also Ja Rule: "he's a bad father, he has a square head, and he looks like he has bad breath... the beef is forever".
Thank you for telling the truth..... 50 did not end Jarule's career by himself..... he needed em , dre, dmx, and busta rhymes!!!!! 50 bars were trash..... really don't see how ya'll like that clown!!!!! Never been a Jarule fan but he's always been better than 50!!!! Curtis had the weakest flo & bars in his own group!!!
@@TrapLoreRoss Hey can you make one on eminem. Many youtubers have differents version of his story. Talk about his three best album I feel this can be interesting.
1. This beef will never end. In my opinion once violence is involved (i.e. 50 and crew getting attacked in the studio and the infamous 9 shots) there's no going back. 2. Ja Rule ended his own career because he thought him and his record label were too big to fail. In turn HE brought Eminem and Dr. Dre into the beef by literally DARING them to get involved when the beef could've just stayed between Ja and 50. The universe will always find a way to humble you 3. 50 is the ultimate troll because he literally does not care AND HAS SO MUCH time. Biggest finesse was clowning Ja Rule for sing-rapping only for him to become popular for doing the same thing lol. That must hurt Ja to this day. 4. The most fascinating thing about this I'd how 50 came out and was able to turn fans and a lot of the industry against Ja! I was legit in middle school talking about how lame Ja was like I knew him personally haha.
@@Gogetta80 that's a power move to be honest. Imagine all the people that made fun of ja for it but praised 50. Omg Ja must of felt so clowned. Sheeesh
Think about how confident and secure Ja was around 2001… his album debuted at #1, his enemy was now anonymous, shot 9 times and not dissing him anymore. There was practically no way he would ever have to worry about him again…
Ja was fine until the feds investigated his label but 50 groupies keep given 50 all the credit. 50 has been dissing rule since 99 but it didn’t do shit to rule.
i just think its kinda wild it actually wiped jah off the map like so ofter you can just cash beefs in at the clout bank for more fame this one was like "ya better win ja or your done around done in the billboard ellite" lol
@@therealmac1044sorry he photoshopped himself in empty seats. He bought 200 tickets of Groupon to leave them empty and those 200 tickets were the front rows. Are you the person in your group that everyone questions why they spend time around you because making small corrections to a funny premise and just mad your comment won't get a like except from yourself let alone 69 👍 nice... You must be the life of the party. 69 likes nice! Glad it has done perfectly couldn't have asked for anything else. That is outside of having some random person doesn't just keep stroking. But needs to leave a needless comment to a haha story! Someone who just can't laugh at funny things in life. Make sure you check my punctuation and make sure my phone didn't auto correct a word to be just slightly off and changes nothing to hinder your ability to understand the comment!
I love the commentator. He's very informative and charismatic, somewhat hilarious, but it's natural in a way how he keeps the video stimulated and interesting to watch.
Ja's talent was undeniable, but he was never a savvy businessman. He was never forced to come up with brilliant strategy. At his best, all he ever did was ride a wave with his eyes closed.
@@versatillion15 Well in a way it is, we're here to watch Trap Lore Ross entertain us. He could just recite what he's researched, but he's give us a bit of added showmanship. Ya can't help but respect it.
People shoulda followed Jay-Z example. For the most part he just ignored 50. He knew he really didn't have beef with all these rappers, he was just trying to make an opportunity for himself. I mean it was brilliant and Ja took the bait over and over again. I honestly wished they both could have just coexisted because they both made good music.
Even eminem was jealous of 50 cent hot debut song/video "In da club" Being reprogrammed and built at a aftermath training facility and running on a treadmill with a hot club track. Dont get much better than that💯🔥
It’s crazy that Eminem,50, and Dre are still relevant to the point that they performed at the SuperBowl and Ja Rule is literally no where to be seen on the face of the earth 🤦🏾♂️😂
Let’s not forget Mary But I don’t think he would be allowed even if he was still relevant He has too much beef with them to just perform with them Same reason why the game couldn’t be there even if he was relevant
True, not even just with hiphop. Great years for all different genres of music. There's some bangers comming out now, but everything seems more focused on Internet clout over the actual music, its sad
Ross, this is some of your best work. I come back to this every now and then to enjoy the story again. Really think this is going to be watched for years to come 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Ja's downfall was his arrogance due to him bringing Dre, Eminem and even Interscope into his beef with 50 as he genuinely thought he could take them down lol.
Not to mention Busta Rhymes for some reason. "I've been one of the most humble, rep the streets to the core Hey Jeffrey, what the fuck you come involving me for?"
Ive seen this vid multiple times but i can always watch it. I remember every step of the beef from back when it happened. But man, Ross is really good at what he does. My lord, his framing and sneak comments while explaining make me laugh. Its all spot on and funny af. And the detail and balance of it all is remarkable as well.
39:10 Correction, Go to Sleep was a Benzino diss track. The only line Eminem had toward Ja Rule was “Ja, you’ll get it too,” which means he wasn’t the primary target. That was just a warning shot. 23:09 50 was calling Jada local, not Ja. The only “diss” to Ja in that song was in the music video, where his face is on an arcade game called “Murder Inc.” that’s out of order.
This is amazing, and the main reason I say that is because you accurately mention almost every mixtape in correct order and explained the back story behind them. Thank you for staying true to the hip hop facts and lore.
I used to promote mixtapes these times & trust me 50 & G-Unit were smashing out more mixtapes than anyone else from that era. The cameos, skits & Ja Duet disses were too much 😆
Regarding the song, ' New York', I thought it might interest you to know that South Africans were up in arms when it dropped because it sounds eerily similar to one of our artists' biggest hits; 'Nkalakatha.' It dropped soon after Ja Rule visited the country.He was clowned by local media for that. Hasn't come back, since.
If you from the hood you know that 48 laws of power ish is so annoying Because anyone that went to jail comes out thinking they the master Manipulator & use those laws on they friends smh lol
When I was pretty little my dad told me there were two things that I could fight for and he would always have my back. First was if I thought someone was going to hit me and the second was if someone dissed my mama.
Absolutely awesome and through video, covering every aspect of this exciting beef I grew up with. Only place I would correct, is even though Ja gets a mention on 'Go to Sleep', it was mostly aimed at Benzino (where Em angrily references 'speak on my seed' as he had recently done).
This episode was a masterpiece bro truly took a different approach I was like 8 years old when they started beefing so this was very insightful and filled in a couple blanks as well
@@rasheemthebestfirstone3274 Honestly, I dont know. Maybe because he's white (not like there is an issue with it.) I've seen arguments about TLR and you'll always find the fact that he is white being brought up. It's a shame really.
I feel like you should've included how historically hard 50 Cent and Gunit was going in the mixtape game leading up to him being signed by Em. No doubt your docs are always extremely detailed but you always seem to leave out at least one important detail and I'm sure there's a valid logic as to why but damn Ross that mixtape run was absolutely legendary and played right into 50's popularity at the time and also gives a better understanding as to why his first album did so well. Also during this era is when fans would noticably point out that 50 seemed to start using Ja Rules melodic harmonizing style in his music which in my opinion was very important to this story because he had already crushed Ja making fun of him singing on tracks only to turn around and do it himself in his own way. Also in much the same way Em D12 and Dre began to take aim at Ja on Fif's behalf (sorta) the lox and fat Joe retaliated the same way from the Ja side. Not a real important detail but since you included Em's numerous attacks why not also do the same for Ja's ally's? None the less, great piece of work as usual. Keep it up
@@MattWarb What a load of BS. 50 had to go out of state to work with producers because they were scared to work with him with Irv gotti down their neck.
Man, I forgot about that early 50 track where dude disses the entire rap game, before anyone even knew who he was. Dude was a troll from the very beginning, and I fucking love it
The title of this video is a misnomer, it should say “how the industry ended Ja Rules career”. Curtis definitely didn’t do it by himself, Ja became the industry punchin’ bag everyone ganged up on him. He should not have said what he said about Hailey (Ems daughter) that was his careers death warrant.
feels good to watch this video knowing I was in middle school when all this was going on. Something I use to hear was true something not so true. Don’t matter the only thing that matters is the WINNER gets to tell the story.
Having been too young to experience the mixtape era, I now realize how much music from these dudes I’ve never heard before, only studio albums and singles.
@@vince11harris yep exactly 👍. MGK went from rap to emo and dressing sus 😸😹 after he wrote something about his daughter on X. Dude completely changed everything after Em destroyed him. Wrote the track in like not even a day either and I bet MGK took months to write his crap diss lol 😆
Real reason 50 beefed with Ja: When Supreme Mcgriff came out of jail, he chose to work with Ja and Irv Gotti instead of 50. 50 felt betrayed, he looked up to Preme who was a legend in the neighbourhood and couldn't understand why Preme chose to work with Ja and Irv, who 50 thought was soft. 50 came to the 'it's murda' music video shoot to kill Ja rule and Preme told 50 to go home. 50 thinks he and Preme are cut from the same cloth and that Irv and Ja are not. That's probably the real reason the beef happened. If you look at the FBI tapes, immediately after 50 got shot, Irv Gotti called Preme up and said "did we do it? was it successful" or words to that affect. I think 50 cent blames Ja rule and Irv Gotti for having him shot 9 times which is probably why the beef will go on until one of them dies.
You’re absolutely right. 50 kinda confirmed this in a XXL interview in the 00s. And Murder Inc did play a part in him getting shot. This is real street shit. People need to let go of the hope of them ending this beef.
Yeah but that didn't feel like a diss song, he structured it and made it something you could hear on the radio while Ja was putting out full albums all agressive about 50 and not making the pop sounding hits that could've kept him alive.
@@australium7374 ik, but the fact he was mentioned on the album is what I'm going off of lol. Yes the song was already out by then, but it still was on Beg for Mercy.
@Wild Hearts huh? Ja only did blood in my eye dissing them. The next year he dropped r.u.l.e which had decent singles, sadly it only went Gold. By contract there are far more disses at ja rule from 50, eminem, d12, 50, Dmx etc did you lose interest in them? Perhaps it was just ja's Time, most rappers have a 5 year run. 1999-2004 for ja and 2003-2008 for 50 respectively.
Your vids are Dope bruh! TLR is a force to be reckoned with in the TH-cam world .. some one needs to give this man his crown hes surpassed ackdemics in my mind much respect dawg! Bblrrrrr 💥
Honestly I respect Ja for that Uber commercial. Shows he was willing to try to get out of the Clout game and just be a real person. Able to make fun of himself. Now if he had maintained that mindset he could have grown above the beef that defined his life. But because everyone sees that as a L he was weak and fell back into that bs life. Clout is a cloud y'all. U can't touch it.
25:48 Damn, calling DMX a crack connoisseur is crazy work. Especially since how he got addicted to crack is actually super fucked up. He got addicted because someone that he thought he could trust laced him and got him strung out. It's not like he was just out there like, "hmm I think I should go try some crack."
Ya bro there was zero reason for this weird azz British dude to just insult him everytime he brings him up. Weird asf I literally heard him smear his name 3 times this vid wild but ok. Goofy doesn’t care he’s safe hiding out in Uk 🤣
Ja Rule's biggest mistake was going after Eminem, Dr Dre and Busta Rhymes as well in addition to 50. Smh. *Edit:* Obie Trice - Sh!t Hits The Fan. Is the most underrated diss track towards Ja.
The funniest part is that as soon as Ja does something, positive intentions or not, I laugh immediately thinking about 50’s response 🤣 gyyyyrooosss lmao
Hahaha that part around 18:00 made me laugh. Dr Dre and especially Eminem are such bros. Eminem legit went extra mile by putting his songs in 8 mile. That was such a "ba dum tsss" thing, love it.
I'm so grateful for my buddy getting me hooked on 50 Cent just when all this shit was going down...all we had was "Guess Who's Back" and a bootleg of "Power of the Dollar". And then those mixtapes started dropping and about a year later it's like Fifty got signed by Shady. And the rest is, indeed, history! God we hated Ja. ^^
When I read this title, I realized that there are some hip hop fans who don't even remember this, because they hadn't been born yet... And then I realized I am old.
It's been a little over 16 years since this beef ended. And I would like to say, as I got older and looked bacc on it. 50 Cent didn't "end" Ja's career, he simply took it from him. Notice everything 50 is doing, Ja was doing at the time. Revisionist history will tell you 50 sent Ja into irrelevancy which is a lie. Ja went on to have a pretty "meh" career after their beef had ended. One thing I'll give 50 is, he methodically broke Ja's game down and used it against him. I remember at one point 50 told Ja that him singing and rapping (what Drake does now) would never sell records (paraphrasing) so Ja stopped and 50 started doing the exact thing he said would never sell in hip-hop. Unpopular opinion, 50 just stole Ja's shine and ran with it
Exactly 50 took both ja and dmx spot in hip hop if you pay attention to the formula. There's usually 3 top guys with the 3rd being jay z who retired. 50 would be replaced with kanye, lil wayne and t.i (or drake depending)
Any way you slice it, 50 annihilated Ja's career or Murder Inc in its entirety, aside from the Feds investigation into the label for money laundering & racketeering (I truly believe 50 was involved in that) . The Shady/Aftermath machine was just far too strong for Ja to fight back. Also, Ja alienated his "core audience" to reclaim his street appeal in the rap game by constantly trying to go at 50 and looked incredibly weak in the process as the video says. Honestly, I felt that 50 knew who to go at by attacking Ja, being the weakest link in the NY rap scene. Had he tried to diss Jay, Nas, or even DMX, the outcome would've never been what it was...
@@MichieHoward True, but you thank Jay Z for that. He put Ye in position to take over once 50's "Get Rich Or Die Trying" wave had simmered down after some years
@@elijahstraight402 i agree!!! If Ja had stayed focused on making music to keep his core fan base, 50 wouldn't have had as much success overshadowing his career. In hindsight, Ja Rule did this yo himself
I’ve been watching your videos back to back since Saturday. Re-watching this one again. Thank you so much for investing your time making these videos. Your humor is legit funny, I be at work loling hard. I’ve never been a person to watch a lot of TH-cam much less go on patreon but I’m definitely considering it. Thank you from HTX 👋
Those years between 2002 and 2005 were the peak of the mix tape game. Every barber shop on the east coast, you didn't leave without a new cd or two..50 hilariously destroyed Ja and once 50 got to the top, he never fell off.
“Where is Jaaa ?!” And “Monicaaaa !” Are the highlights of this dude’s career. He sold a bunch of records but it wasn’t because if how talented he was, he always had crazy features. When he wanted a radio hit he’d get Ashanti, J Lo or whatever hot R&B chick was popular ar the moment. When he wanted a street record he’d get Jadakiss, Far Joe, Dmx or Jay Z. I kinda felt bad for Ja, he got gangbanged by all the biggest names at one poin, Em, DMX, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, X Zibit, D12, G Unit etc. it was a massacre, no pun intended.
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Nah fanks mate.
Gyro pronounced as "hero"
@@ballsdeep6548 nope it's pronounced more like euro
I tried it, thanks a lot Ross 💯
Imagine being a diehard ja rule fan in 2005, falling into a coma, and waking up to see him doing Uber and Gyro commercials
If you were still a Ja Rule fan by 2005 then I don't think you'd be that surprised. 50 was already falling out by then with that weak ass Massacre album.
@Turro Bandolero it is a classic but it is also true that it got burned out because of the new music genre shifting to.
@@johnpaullaranjo376 i actually like massacre better than grodt
😂😂😂
@@user-ss2pz5bi9n lol what the hell? 50 didnt start falling off until he tried to challenge kanye and making shit like ayo technology lol
Meh this Trap Lore Ross guy is washed up. I’m gonna go head to my new favorite youtuber, Trap More Ross
😂😂😂
😂😂 Trap More vs Trap Lore
Let's go
Lmao
When your only opps are yourself.
Ross you're the GOAT 🔥🏆
Thank you for including the Dave Chappelle, Ja Rule joke.. such an underrated part of Ja’s catalogue
Haha yeh...every time I say it hear ja rule I think ...let's speak to Ja , see what he thinks....hahaha
Word.
Lmao
WHERE IS JA
The setup was TRL during 9/11, right?
Ja Rule: "I'm removing myself for the beef"
Also Ja Rule: "he's a bad father, he has a square head, and he looks like he has bad breath... the beef is forever".
That shit was funny as fuck I ain’t even gonna lie 😂
🤣
Well this made me feel slightly better about the never ending USA vs Russia beef.
Imagine going against 50 Cent, Eminem, Dr Dre and DMX at the same time and thinking you gonna come out on top
Illusion s of grandeur Inc was on top
Ja Rule also dissed Busta Rhymes who had nothing to do with the beef.
You forgot about the fbi
@@Kinnakeeter zone
Thank you for telling the truth..... 50 did not end Jarule's career by himself..... he needed em , dre, dmx, and busta rhymes!!!!! 50 bars were trash..... really don't see how ya'll like that clown!!!!! Never been a Jarule fan but he's always been better than 50!!!! Curtis had the weakest flo & bars in his own group!!!
Rapping aside, 50's trolling and meme game is clearly superior. 🤣
I disagree. 50 Cent kept clowning 🤡 Ja Rule and when Ja Rule clapped 👏 back, 50 Cent is the one blocking 🚫 Ja and running 🏃♀️ away.
I remember when 50 cent bought 150+ tickets to ja rules concert so the theatre could be empty
So he was petty as hell even back then?
Wait till you get to the end of the vid
@@TrapLoreRoss Hey can you make one on eminem. Many youtubers have differents version of his story. Talk about his three best album I feel this can be interesting.
@@sonikku956 50 is still the most petty person on line
@@sonikku956 that weren’t too long ago. 50 been petty since he dropped how to rob..
50 was my first favorite rapper .. I remember getting his debut album for my birthday. Just to know he sold more than 6 million copies! INSANE
I felt the same way. I listened to and liked Eminem but when I got Get rich or die tryin it didn’t leave my CD player for months.
So insane
That album was everywhere. The hits off it were never off the radio.
Also Trap Lore favorite rapper. He showed some biased against Ja.
@@vdoc2760 you can't show bias against the loser of the super bowl when talking about who won the super bowl?
hell yes been waiting for this
You watch trap lore 😳
The crossover we need!
that's what I'm saying lol!
For real
*in the Cam'Ron Curtis voice*
JARVIS!!!
1. This beef will never end. In my opinion once violence is involved (i.e. 50 and crew getting attacked in the studio and the infamous 9 shots) there's no going back.
2. Ja Rule ended his own career because he thought him and his record label were too big to fail. In turn HE brought Eminem and Dr. Dre into the beef by literally DARING them to get involved when the beef could've just stayed between Ja and 50. The universe will always find a way to humble you
3. 50 is the ultimate troll because he literally does not care AND HAS SO MUCH time. Biggest finesse was clowning Ja Rule for sing-rapping only for him to become popular for doing the same thing lol. That must hurt Ja to this day.
4. The most fascinating thing about this I'd how 50 came out and was able to turn fans and a lot of the industry against Ja! I was legit in middle school talking about how lame Ja was like I knew him personally haha.
Well said. I agree.
Spittin facts with this one
The fact that he diss ja for singing then does the same himself is Lame
@@Gogetta80 that's a power move to be honest. Imagine all the people that made fun of ja for it but praised 50. Omg Ja must of felt so clowned. Sheeesh
@@Ginaisspeaking that just shows how fickle hip-hop fans are. They’ll hate ja for something and love 50 for the exact same thing.
Think about how confident and secure Ja was around 2001… his album debuted at #1, his enemy was now anonymous, shot 9 times and not dissing him anymore. There was practically no way he would ever have to worry about him again…
Karma
He never thought the boogie man was coming for his ass and his label
@@eriklaguiraoficial many men wished death upon me
ayo where ja somebody get ja on the phone
Now he resides in Shaqs Toilet
Ja was fine until the feds investigated his label but 50 groupies keep given 50 all the credit. 50 has been dissing rule since 99 but it didn’t do shit to rule.
"We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happening"
-Eminem
I could see him saying that exact thing like “what the fuck are they doing?” Immediately after under his breath
I mean Ross did say that Dre and Em sat 50 down and told him to stay focused on the music instead of beefing so that is true
i just think its kinda wild it actually wiped jah off the map like so ofter you can just cash beefs in at the clout bank for more fame this one was like "ya better win ja or your done around done in the billboard ellite" lol
He says this while giving 50 a platform to diss him on emin always plays victim
@@jordanbailey5456 giving someone a platform is just that. Em isn’t going to ban 50 from saying what he wants to smh
The Ja Rule Duets skit was the funniest skit/interlude of all time
The shakira part killed me
Yeah ! :)
_Ja Rule turned 50 Cent into A Dollar._
More like a 50 dollar bill
Hundred cent 😂
Then he left Shady, went bankrupt & now 50's career needs Obamacare like Ja's
@@motorcityoctane6713 50 own the biggest show on tv he a retired rapper
@@bentleydadog303 Courtney Kemp created & owns Power, 50 is a Producer.
50 Cent buying the front 10 rows at a Ja Rule show and sitting alone in the middle is one of the best FUs ever!!!
That’s fake shit! That never happened! It’s funny how you get 69 thumbs up to a lie .
@@therealmac1044sorry he photoshopped himself in empty seats. He bought 200 tickets of Groupon to leave them empty and those 200 tickets were the front rows. Are you the person in your group that everyone questions why they spend time around you because making small corrections to a funny premise and just mad your comment won't get a like except from yourself let alone 69 👍 nice... You must be the life of the party. 69 likes nice! Glad it has done perfectly couldn't have asked for anything else. That is outside of having some random person doesn't just keep stroking. But needs to leave a needless comment to a haha story! Someone who just can't laugh at funny things in life. Make sure you check my punctuation and make sure my phone didn't auto correct a word to be just slightly off and changes nothing to hinder your ability to understand the comment!
@@jonlamontagne teal deer
@@NYNEDollaSign What?
@@NYNEDollaSignReading too much for you? Imagine your phone can read for you even though you can't!
I love the commentator. He's very informative and charismatic, somewhat hilarious, but it's natural in a way how he keeps the video stimulated and interesting to watch.
He bias as hell. Terrible example of documentary. Probably tryna get attention from 50.
well said Trap More Bot lolz
bot 💀
Ja's talent was undeniable, but he was never a savvy businessman. He was never forced to come up with brilliant strategy. At his best, all he ever did was ride a wave with his eyes closed.
He can barely rap on beat
@@anon2427 him and 50 are the same tier lyrically, both pretty basic.
He didn't ride a wave, his time was just up
@@061romell I think 50 is better, but music is subjective
How did he get a 6x platinum album in 2002. This is a joke
Them ja rule skits are straight classic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely
WHENEVER WHATEVER
WHATCHU SAY
Yoooooo I'm laughing lol
shit had me dying
Ayooooooo xaxxxaaxaxaxa
None of the comments ever mention your skillshare tracks. You hop on the track with confidence, and I respect that.
Nah fr lol 💪🏾
The bit i look forward the most
Dude it’s soooo funny
Yea because that’s not why we’re here
@@versatillion15 Well in a way it is, we're here to watch Trap Lore Ross entertain us. He could just recite what he's researched, but he's give us a bit of added showmanship. Ya can't help but respect it.
People shoulda followed Jay-Z example. For the most part he just ignored 50. He knew he really didn't have beef with all these rappers, he was just trying to make an opportunity for himself. I mean it was brilliant and Ja took the bait over and over again. I honestly wished they both could have just coexisted because they both made good music.
“Pride comes before the fall”
And now look, jay z is going down with the diddler...hopefully j lo and beyonce go with them... bye Felicia
This is why I have respect for Irv Gotti.... He wasn't in denial and knew 50 was a threat to Ja Rule musically
True that is one thing I give them credit for but he should have tried to crush the beef before it escalated as far as it does
He straight up lied about the restraining order.. dudes a liar.
@@BoleDaPole Yo mamma lied to you about loving you. You'd know all about liars. :P (This is a joke, don't take it seriously.)
Bruh 50 Cent outsold Ja’s entire discography with get rich or die tryin’ in the end of 2003....LMAOO💀🤦🏾♂️
No capp 💯
Still to this day that album go hard... Its quoteable like a Friday movie lol.
Even eminem was jealous of 50 cent hot debut song/video "In da club"
Being reprogrammed and built at a aftermath training facility and running on a treadmill with a hot club track.
Dont get much better than that💯🔥
Big 🧢
@@YaKillaCJ damn near every song on that album is a hit
TLR getting me through lockdown with these videos
Haha same here.. Where you live at? Just curious cause of the lockdown..
@@MotorCityMob UK
@@MotorCityMob we’re doing well with the vaccines so hopefully should be out of this soon
@@rorylennon4043 good deal man, glad to hear that..
@@rorylennon4043 l live in sa
It’s crazy that Eminem,50, and Dre are still relevant to the point that they performed at the SuperBowl and Ja Rule is literally no where to be seen on the face of the earth 🤦🏾♂️😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰
Except on Drink Champs
Being sued for _Fire Festival_ has to count for something, right?! 😅🤣😭
Let’s not forget Mary
But I don’t think he would be allowed even if he was still relevant
He has too much beef with them to just perform with them
Same reason why the game couldn’t be there even if he was relevant
the 2000s-2008s were such good years for music, i do miss that era
@Ryu True
True, not even just with hiphop. Great years for all different genres of music. There's some bangers comming out now, but everything seems more focused on Internet clout over the actual music, its sad
@@averagecomment123 I feel the internet is more fond of trolls and idoits than actual talented rappers these days
@@areyouforreal2039 ur right its literally the only reason 69 has a career let's be honest
@Ryu 2009 -2012 hip hop was good especially datpiff during that time popping up mixtapes
Ja life changed once he heard the words “go shawty, it’s ya birthday” 😭😭😭
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000 Ja Rule is the better rapper? lol fuck outta here
@@skriblefanten Thats ja alt account
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000 did you really just say Ja IS a better rapper🤨
* Birfday
@@DR.slzzzp absolutely Ja Rule is a better lyricist and it’s not even close.
THIS AD IS YOUR BEST AD YET 😤 your rapping has really improved bruh keep it up
He don't write his own lyrics, he buys them off Soulja boy as his ghostwriter.
Ross, this is some of your best work. I come back to this every now and then to enjoy the story again. Really think this is going to be watched for years to come 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Ja's downfall was his arrogance due to him bringing Dre, Eminem and even Interscope into his beef with 50 as he genuinely thought he could take them down lol.
Exactly. Thats where he eff'd up.
Not to mention Busta Rhymes for some reason.
"I've been one of the most humble, rep the streets to the core
Hey Jeffrey, what the fuck you come involving me for?"
The feds end ja rule not aftermath
@@TayTayMakesBeats 🤔😅💖 When you address a rapper by their government name, that's beyond embarrassment
@@joeljoseph9017 Maybe, but there was absolutely no Ja could've won that war trying to battle the entire Shady/Aftermath roster all by himself.
I swear these youtubers be finding info and videos we never seen before. Keep up the hard work we’d be bored without y’all
Ja rule Deffos messaging Ross after this one 😂 fyre
wtf is deffos
@@jimmyhooks definitely or "deffos"
Ive seen this vid multiple times but i can always watch it. I remember every step of the beef from back when it happened. But man, Ross is really good at what he does. My lord, his framing and sneak comments while explaining make me laugh. Its all spot on and funny af. And the detail and balance of it all is remarkable as well.
It is a blessing to have 50 cent Eminem and Dr. Dre alive today. They survived the 1990’s.
Explain why it's a good thing? These people are horrible human beings LMAO.
The fact they all survived everything is insane
Dre was a millionaire by 1995. I don't think he "survived" the 90s.
@@Ciscokidcapo he was talking about drugs, and gun violence
To think, none of this really escalates like this if ja simply ignores 50.
He was setting himself for failure
his ego couldn’t take it
I doubt he really had the creative capacity to go much further than he did, anyways.
That’s why 50 is a genius he knew what he was doing and it propelled his career into the legend we know today
Ja is piscean ♓🐟, so these kind don't give up.
They would be best friends in another timeline, i can see both of them trolling each other
Yeah and 50 was part of fyer festival and it was a great success 🤣🤣🤣
@1-800-Wavy it was just an extension of the already some what corny comment. Joke
@@RS-vy9qv damn that was dumb af
Like Tyler The Creator and A$AP Rocky?
@@adamismail2883 maybe
39:10 Correction, Go to Sleep was a Benzino diss track. The only line Eminem had toward Ja Rule was “Ja, you’ll get it too,” which means he wasn’t the primary target. That was just a warning shot. 23:09 50 was calling Jada local, not Ja. The only “diss” to Ja in that song was in the music video, where his face is on an arcade game called “Murder Inc.” that’s out of order.
Can we get "the many beefs of 50 cent" video? This video alone has 50 in like 20 beefs while still going at Ja lmaooooo
Already made
@@ssdkayoffixial2905 yeah but an extension
Yeah we need that
Gotta be at least 50 beefs at this time
ross a legend in the making🤯.
This is amazing, and the main reason I say that is because you accurately mention almost every mixtape in correct order and explained the back story behind them. Thank you for staying true to the hip hop facts and lore.
I learned so much from this than I ever did from other documentaries covering rap beef lol
I'm not really a fan of hip hop/rap but this dude is very entertaining and I can't stop watching his videos for the laughs. Keep it up
I used to promote mixtapes these times & trust me 50 & G-Unit were smashing out more mixtapes than anyone else from that era. The cameos, skits & Ja Duet disses were too much 😆
Regarding the song, ' New York', I thought it might interest you to know that South Africans were up in arms when it dropped because it sounds eerily similar to one of our artists' biggest hits; 'Nkalakatha.' It dropped soon after Ja Rule visited the country.He was clowned by local media for that. Hasn't come back, since.
I doubt he would've gone back anyways lol
😂😂😂😂 That visit Ja came to South Africa all disrespectful, little did we know he'll sneak out with a sample of Nkalakatha
Never knew about this. I just listened to “Nkalakatha” and wow
He straight ripped that song off
Never knew about this, just listened to the song and he 10000% ripped it off. What a lame
Thanks for the info! I'm gonna check out the track he ripped off.
That Ad was 🔥..Bro gettin better with the ryhmes str8 up💪🏾
I didn’t even watch the video yet but the amount of work you put into this is unparalleled. Shoutout to TLR man.
If you from the hood you know that 48 laws of power ish is so annoying
Because anyone that went to jail comes out thinking they the master Manipulator & use those laws on they friends smh lol
Only they friends 😭😭😭
There some people that only dealt a bit of drugs that are smarter than them. Jail time doesn’t immediately make u wisdom seeker
@@LeVon_Jamez33 seriously smh lol like use that ish on the opps g🤣
@@australium7374 I completely agree that's the whole point of my comment
The shit got me in tears cuz that shit so true niggas be wanting to be Kanan Stark too bad 😭😭😭
Ross never misses👏🏻
When I was pretty little my dad told me there were two things that I could fight for and he would always have my back. First was if I thought someone was going to hit me and the second was if someone dissed my mama.
@@adamw-m4634 yo bigman take ur meds
Absolutely awesome and through video, covering every aspect of this exciting beef I grew up with. Only place I would correct, is even though Ja gets a mention on 'Go to Sleep', it was mostly aimed at Benzino (where Em angrily references 'speak on my seed' as he had recently done).
This episode was a masterpiece bro truly took a different approach I was like 8 years old when they started beefing so this was very insightful and filled in a couple blanks as well
That G-UNIT album BEG FOR MERCY, was and still is a classic. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hell yeah I was listening to it all week. Nothing but heat 🔥🔥🔥
I agree 🔥
Only trap lore ross can make an hour long video, that I will actually sit through. Such a good story teller and narrator.
I couldnt sit through it .. the guy is mad cringe and super disrespectful, it's a real shame
He researches, doesn't recycle opinion and he's himself all the way, that's why some of us watch his videos like it's a movie
He's also the only guy I don't skip ads on
@@Rucker1980 he deserves that bank 🏦
Your comments caused him to make 6 hour young boy documentaries now 💀
And more recently Ja went and got himself tangled up with the fyre festival bollocks...
His decision making is somewhat questionable! 🤦♀️
I've been waiting on this. Thank you for all the hard work you put into your videos.
❤️
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@@Meekmillan you paying for onlyfans?
@@Meekmillan weirdo
Ja Rule really thought he could take down 50, Eminem and Dre at the same time 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Add Dmx and Busta to the mix. And Jayz don't like him either
In their primes too
And em got scared when he got confronted lol
@@turtleanton6539 Ja and DMX ended beef
Bro, TLR is pumping up hour long videos full of valuable info bout hip hop and yall still calling him a culture vulture, KMT!
Lol literally never seen anyone call him that
@@spinner771 nah bro, you can find threads of people arguing over if TLR is a culture vulture or not in his older videos.
@@rasheemthebestfirstone3274 Honestly, I dont know. Maybe because he's white (not like there is an issue with it.) I've seen arguments about TLR and you'll always find the fact that he is white being brought up. It's a shame really.
@@rasheemthebestfirstone3274 Exactly. People just like to gatekeep when it comes to hiphop.
@@incognegro826 kinda racist since race has nothing to do with culture mostly even black ppl can take other people’s culture
I feel like you should've included how historically hard 50 Cent and Gunit was going in the mixtape game leading up to him being signed by Em. No doubt your docs are always extremely detailed but you always seem to leave out at least one important detail and I'm sure there's a valid logic as to why but damn Ross that mixtape run was absolutely legendary and played right into 50's popularity at the time and also gives a better understanding as to why his first album did so well. Also during this era is when fans would noticably point out that 50 seemed to start using Ja Rules melodic harmonizing style in his music which in my opinion was very important to this story because he had already crushed Ja making fun of him singing on tracks only to turn around and do it himself in his own way. Also in much the same way Em D12 and Dre began to take aim at Ja on Fif's behalf (sorta) the lox and fat Joe retaliated the same way from the Ja side. Not a real important detail but since you included Em's numerous attacks why not also do the same for Ja's ally's? None the less, great piece of work as usual. Keep it up
It doesn’t matter. Ja was obsessed with 50.
@@kamfisher1714 it matters. Ja wasn’t obsessed with 50
@@MattWarb Yes he was and so was his homies. They were blackballing 50.
@@kamfisher1714 no he wasn’t and neither were his homies. They weren’t blackballing 50.
@@MattWarb What a load of BS. 50 had to go out of state to work with producers because they were scared to work with him with Irv gotti down their neck.
Man, I forgot about that early 50 track where dude disses the entire rap game, before anyone even knew who he was. Dude was a troll from the very beginning, and I fucking love it
It is also a way to get attention.
@@innosanto it worked homie
@@innosanto that's good marketing...
Your sponsors really don't realize what they getting when they sponsor your videos, your raps really under-rated af🔥🔥
_Remember when 50 Cent got shot 9 times? Well, 50 Cent shot Ja Rule's career 9 times & it ended him._
Ahaha this was a good one.
@@LeBeautiful hey u my g
Good one 🔥🔥
The title of this video is a misnomer, it should say “how the industry ended Ja Rules career”. Curtis definitely didn’t do it by himself, Ja became the industry punchin’ bag everyone ganged up on him. He should not have said what he said about Hailey (Ems daughter) that was his careers death warrant.
But 50 started it, if there was no 50 it would never happen
I like how Ross never acknowledged the fact that Ja rule has “ended the beef” 4-5 times lmao
You can’t just simply end the beef especially when you lost the beef.
@@DIMEBAGONICS forever hurt
Are you talking about the types of beef squashing like 47:20 where he squashes but still throws shade
He did
This man writes a whole track for his adverts, legend
Man these were the days. 18 years old and hip hop was at its highest peak. Thanks for this.
Nah it was at its highest peak mid to late 90s
@@luckylefty914
No it wasn't
@@dank9300 yes it was
It's the biggest genre on the planet currently. Back then, it was pretty niche up until Eminem came along.
Imagine thinking ja rule is peak rap game lmao
feels good to watch this video knowing I was in middle school when all this was going on. Something I use to hear was true something not so true. Don’t matter the only thing that matters is the WINNER gets to tell the story.
Having been too young to experience the mixtape era, I now realize how much music from these dudes I’ve never heard before, only studio albums and singles.
Dj Green Lantern(North and northeast)
Dj Drama(South)
Dopehouse records(texas)
I grew up in northeast. 50s mixtapes made him blow up way before em signed him. He was the hottest in the streets for a while before getting signed.
Blowing up in the streets and blowing up in the world are on entirely different scales bro. 🙄
That gyro commercial was wholesome as fuck an u can tell he had fun with it.
Bringing up Ems daughter in a diss was the nail in the coffin for Ja lol
That’s like a cardinal sin in Rap. If you diss Eminem’s daughter, your career is basically over 😂
@@vince11harris yep exactly 👍. MGK went from rap to emo and dressing sus 😸😹 after he wrote something about his daughter on X. Dude completely changed everything after Em destroyed him. Wrote the track in like not even a day either and I bet MGK took months to write his crap diss lol 😆
“You sing for hos’ and Sound like the Cookie monsta” - fiddy
WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT YOUUUU
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣FACTS
Busta really buried him on Hail Mary.
Really ; really deep to
Then in tbe very same breathe screams.....if i was your best friend..i want you round all the time
That line still makes me die of laughter
Eminem after Ja mentioned Hailie : "And then I took it personally"
That moment was like if a ja was burning he didn't just light the fire,he doused the matches in gasoline
@@ghost_ib9928 that was Ja taking a bath in kerosene and using a towel of lit matches to dry off.
Real reason 50 beefed with Ja: When Supreme Mcgriff came out of jail, he chose to work with Ja and Irv Gotti instead of 50. 50 felt betrayed, he looked up to Preme who was a legend in the neighbourhood and couldn't understand why Preme chose to work with Ja and Irv, who 50 thought was soft. 50 came to the 'it's murda' music video shoot to kill Ja rule and Preme told 50 to go home. 50 thinks he and Preme are cut from the same cloth and that Irv and Ja are not. That's probably the real reason the beef happened. If you look at the FBI tapes, immediately after 50 got shot, Irv Gotti called Preme up and said "did we do it? was it successful" or words to that affect. I think 50 cent blames Ja rule and Irv Gotti for having him shot 9 times which is probably why the beef will go on until one of them dies.
If either of them died we definitely seeing a "Smoking ____" tweet from them immediately
Yes diverse mentality exactly said this.
Who told you that?
You’re absolutely right. 50 kinda confirmed this in a XXL interview in the 00s. And Murder Inc did play a part in him getting shot. This is real street shit. People need to let go of the hope of them ending this beef.
Where’d you hear that from, that Irv called preme and asked him that I never knew that
Trap this promo lyrically is the best I've heard you make yet 🙌
"Thats only New York man yo ass is local" was actually a diss towards jadakiss
Then checkmate kind of hurt 50s career
@@TheAoalec14 didn’t even phase him lyrically it hurt though
@@TheAoalec14 Na,that I Run Ny hurt jada's career that he kind of had😂.After 50 dropped that,jada was beefin wit puff & beggin 4 mercy 2 50.
"I didn't mention him on Beg For Mercy."
I mean, he did put I Smell Pussy on the album...
Yeah but that didn't feel like a diss song, he structured it and made it something you could hear on the radio while Ja was putting out full albums all agressive about 50 and not making the pop sounding hits that could've kept him alive.
@@lukecowen3907 Yeah, besides that was technically a mixtape song that came out before Beg For Mercy
@@lukecowen3907 I'm just going at the fact he mentioned him lol
@@tgeiii3554 I mean he mentioned him in the song for clout
@@australium7374 ik, but the fact he was mentioned on the album is what I'm going off of lol. Yes the song was already out by then, but it still was on Beg for Mercy.
Ja Rule ruined his own career but ditching his core fans to beef with 50.
His fans would have abandoned him regardless
His fans were women lol
@@wokewokerton8092 most rappers have female fans, that's who buys most of the music, you need women.
@Wild Hearts yep. Ja rule was arguably the biggest thing in hip hop. He just had to keep making his type of music.
@Wild Hearts huh? Ja only did blood in my eye dissing them. The next year he dropped r.u.l.e which had decent singles, sadly it only went Gold. By contract there are far more disses at ja rule from 50, eminem, d12, 50, Dmx etc did you lose interest in them? Perhaps it was just ja's Time, most rappers have a 5 year run. 1999-2004 for ja and 2003-2008 for 50 respectively.
Your vids are Dope bruh! TLR is a force to be reckoned with in the TH-cam world .. some one needs to give this man his crown hes surpassed ackdemics in my mind much respect dawg! Bblrrrrr 💥
I think Ja Rule ended his own career by letting his rivalry with 50 cent consume him.
Definitely. He has more hits than 50 cent
@@williamtaylor3576 Pass me some of whatever you're smoking
@@deaconblackfire2896 Yeah every album ja has put out has gone platinum
@@williamtaylor3576 same with 50
@@ki11atj49 where
Trap Lore Ross was dropping gems with that freestyle. Real talent.
Honestly I respect Ja for that Uber commercial. Shows he was willing to try to get out of the Clout game and just be a real person. Able to make fun of himself. Now if he had maintained that mindset he could have grown above the beef that defined his life. But because everyone sees that as a L he was weak and fell back into that bs life. Clout is a cloud y'all. U can't touch it.
That last part is a barrrr
@@Kinobambino 50 and Ja need to end the beef it's 2022 they been at in the rapper game for years that's enough
It shows Ja was desperate for a paycheck 😂🤣 I doubt anyone is buying his music these days
The man be hustling. Nobody's ever defined the parameters of what that actually means as long as you're getting paid.
25:48 Damn, calling DMX a crack connoisseur is crazy work. Especially since how he got addicted to crack is actually super fucked up.
He got addicted because someone that he thought he could trust laced him and got him strung out. It's not like he was just out there like, "hmm I think I should go try some crack."
Ya bro there was zero reason for this weird azz British dude to just insult him everytime he brings him up. Weird asf I literally heard him smear his name 3 times this vid wild but ok. Goofy doesn’t care he’s safe hiding out in Uk 🤣
It was over when the Hail Mary freestyle was on the radio in sc in that year.
Ja Rule's biggest mistake was going after Eminem, Dr Dre and Busta Rhymes as well in addition to 50. Smh.
*Edit:* Obie Trice - Sh!t Hits The Fan. Is the most underrated diss track towards Ja.
The funniest part is that as soon as Ja does something, positive intentions or not, I laugh immediately thinking about 50’s response 🤣 gyyyyrooosss lmao
Hahaha that part around 18:00 made me laugh. Dr Dre and especially Eminem are such bros. Eminem legit went extra mile by putting his songs in 8 mile. That was such a "ba dum tsss" thing, love it.
I cant believe i watched this whole thing haha. amazing story telling. We need this in another decade.
"It aint over till one of us gone..."
Damn 50🔥🔥🔥
Yo the skits about Ja on that mix tape had me dying!
I didn't know people thought of Ja Rule as hard or a gangsta rapper 😭😭😭
I'm so grateful for my buddy getting me hooked on 50 Cent just when all this shit was going down...all we had was "Guess Who's Back" and a bootleg of "Power of the Dollar". And then those mixtapes started dropping and about a year later it's like Fifty got signed by Shady. And the rest is, indeed, history! God we hated Ja. ^^
When I read this title, I realized that there are some hip hop fans who don't even remember this, because they hadn't been born yet... And then I realized I am old.
It's been a little over 16 years since this beef ended. And I would like to say, as I got older and looked bacc on it. 50 Cent didn't "end" Ja's career, he simply took it from him.
Notice everything 50 is doing, Ja was doing at the time. Revisionist history will tell you 50 sent Ja into irrelevancy which is a lie. Ja went on to have a pretty "meh" career after their beef had ended.
One thing I'll give 50 is, he methodically broke Ja's game down and used it against him.
I remember at one point 50 told Ja that him singing and rapping (what Drake does now) would never sell records (paraphrasing) so Ja stopped and 50 started doing the exact thing he said would never sell in hip-hop.
Unpopular opinion, 50 just stole Ja's shine and ran with it
Exactly 50 took both ja and dmx spot in hip hop if you pay attention to the formula. There's usually 3 top guys with the 3rd being jay z who retired. 50 would be replaced with kanye, lil wayne and t.i (or drake depending)
Any way you slice it, 50 annihilated Ja's career or Murder Inc in its entirety, aside from the Feds investigation into the label for money laundering & racketeering (I truly believe 50 was involved in that) . The Shady/Aftermath machine was just far too strong for Ja to fight back. Also, Ja alienated his "core audience" to reclaim his street appeal in the rap game by constantly trying to go at 50 and looked incredibly weak in the process as the video says. Honestly, I felt that 50 knew who to go at by attacking Ja, being the weakest link in the NY rap scene. Had he tried to diss Jay, Nas, or even DMX, the outcome would've never been what it was...
Then Kanye snatched 50's spot quicker then it took 50 to wear out Ja, karma's a bitch.
@@MichieHoward True, but you thank Jay Z for that. He put Ye in position to take over once 50's "Get Rich Or Die Trying" wave had simmered down after some years
@@elijahstraight402 i agree!!! If Ja had stayed focused on making music to keep his core fan base, 50 wouldn't have had as much success overshadowing his career. In hindsight, Ja Rule did this yo himself
I’ve been watching your videos back to back since Saturday. Re-watching this one again. Thank you so much for investing your time making these videos. Your humor is legit funny, I be at work loling hard. I’ve never been a person to watch a lot of TH-cam much less go on patreon but I’m definitely considering it. Thank you from HTX 👋
50 buying front row seats at ja`s concert is da funniest ahaha
Even when all the rhymes are “shot/got/fought” bro refuses to say 2Pac correctly
The fact OG loc is based on Jeffery is the real killing blow. OG Loc ain't no Joke.
It's og loc when I'm up in the place
You don't want to stop me wit a gun in ya face...OG! OG!
Those years between 2002 and 2005 were the peak of the mix tape game. Every barber shop on the east coast, you didn't leave without a new cd or two..50 hilariously destroyed Ja and once 50 got to the top, he never fell off.
The _Street Wars_ series seriously was my religion.
50 did fall off though in 07 when Kanye took his spot yeah.
“Where is Jaaa ?!” And “Monicaaaa !” Are the highlights of this dude’s career. He sold a bunch of records but it wasn’t because if how talented he was, he always had crazy features. When he wanted a radio hit he’d get Ashanti, J Lo or whatever hot R&B chick was popular ar the moment. When he wanted a street record he’d get Jadakiss, Far Joe, Dmx or Jay Z. I kinda felt bad for Ja, he got gangbanged by all the biggest names at one poin, Em, DMX, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, X Zibit, D12, G Unit etc. it was a massacre, no pun intended.
That's solid of Ja Rule to do that for the businesses suffering during Covid. I salute that
That man needed a check.
@@thelmaparnell296fr😂
I love how this dude TLR is wearing a whole bullet proof vest during the skill share promo lmao
He knew he was doing that good shit
@@australium7374 fax