00:00 50 Cent has been relentlessly attacking Ja Rule for 20 years.
00:04 I'm not like, I just got rat beef with this n***a. I don't like this n***a.
00:08 50 destroyed Ja's career by humiliating him publicly.
00:12 50 Cent buys first 200 seats at Ja Rule's concert.
00:16 He's finished, because I said he's finished.
00:18 And when Ja tried to hit back, their fight got out of control, until he lost everything, even his own family.
00:25 Now be careful, you fell on top of me.
00:28 Then, all of a sudden, Ja went silent.
00:31 It seemed like 50 had won, but we discovered the real reason Ja was forced into silence.
00:37 This is the truth of what happened.
00:40 I see him in Atlanta, new to a friend of ours, and he's like, "Yo Ja, you know, 50 just want to talk to you about the whole situation that's going on."
00:47 "Will you talk to him?" You know, I see him, "We'll talk."
00:49 I got a bat, I'm holding the bat like this.
00:51 I see him, the talk got heated because I got mad and I started screaming at him.
00:55 So he swings at me. He punched me. And then hit him with the bat. Boom!
00:57 But that's when the real, real beef started.
00:59 Ja Rule was at the height of his career under music label Murder, Inc., when 50 Cent started an all-out war against him.
01:06 Not only was we winning, we was dominating.
01:09 Murder, Inc., we were on the brink of doing big things.
01:12 He didn't like the fact that I was getting so much love. It was immediate brawl.
01:16 Yo, 50, what's the definition of a wankster?
01:18 Ja Rule.
01:19 The people that you see like Ja are f******. Like these f****** don't got no hood in them.
01:24 He didn't come up under the same type of circumstances. He wasn't forced to actually fend for himself that early.
01:30 But what 50 didn't know was that Ja grew up without a dad and did anything to support his family.
01:35 I'm 12, 13 years old. I came home from school and there was a fiction notice on the door.
01:39 It wasn't the first time. My mom, she broke down.
01:42 She didn't really have an answer for what was going to be our next situation.
01:47 At that moment, I became a man.
01:50 Whatever I had to do from this point, I'll do to help my mom.
01:54 Ja started selling drugs and looked up to Drug Lord Supreme, but so did someone else.
01:58 50 growing up under the Supreme Team, 50 grew up idolizing that.
02:02 I was raised under the Supreme Team. I love him more than anybody alive on this planet. We have a special bond.
02:09 But when Ja found out he was going to be a dad, he knew he had to provide more for his growing family.
02:14 He started making music with Supreme's help.
02:17 Drug Lord and gangster Supreme manages up-and-coming rapper Ja Rule under music label Murder, Inc.
02:22 Ja Rule was smashing records and topping the charts.
02:25 You're at the height of your career. You got hits on hits on hits.
02:28 But when 50 started making his own music, Supreme didn't support him.
02:32 And instead of going after him, 50 attacked Ja.
02:35 He wanted to be loved by Supreme. He didn't want to be a manager or whatever the fuck you wanted him to be.
02:41 It's not like I just got rap beef with this s***. I don't like this little s***.
02:45 Ja fought back, but it only made things worse.
02:48 Rule was in the studio. We hear Rule going crazy.
02:51 Rule's like, "He's here. 50, he's here. He's in the building. And I want to get him. Let's get him now."
02:56 It got a little violent. A couple people were stabbed. Some severe injuries.
03:00 He took like a laceration to the stomach. A few stitches and whatever.
03:04 There came a point in time where McGriff decided that 50 Cent had to go.
03:08 Rapper 50 Cent shot nine times but survives.
03:12 Ja thought 50 outed Supreme to the police because soon they were being watched very closely.
03:17 We're being investigated by the feds.
03:19 So now the police go see him while he's in this hospital bed damn near dying.
03:24 Talk to us. We'll protect you. Just give us a few minutes.
03:27 This all starts to take a nasty little turn into us.
03:31 They try to say that Murder 8 was financed by Supreme's drug money.
03:35 On one end, we got rap beef going on. And then on the other end, real s***.
03:41 It was a situation like, "Please Ja, don't say nothing right now.
03:45 Everything you say can and will be used against us in the court of law."
03:49 And because I couldn't react if it went on and it became bigger, I love my brothers more than anything.
03:55 So I'm not going to jeopardize their life with a silly rap beef.
03:59 It just made for a difficult time for me.
04:02 Ja stayed silent to protect Supreme while 50 blew up.
04:06 50 Cent mania is in full effect.
04:09 In hip-hop, when you are the top dog, whatever you say is law.
04:13 Nobody likes Ja. Can't even get a show. It's finished. Because I said he's finished.
04:18 I've never seen an artist get flipped on like Ja.
04:21 Publicly, it was a dominant victory for 50.
04:24 The rap sensation doesn't only make music.
04:26 A lot of people were shocked when you had lost all this weight, 60 pounds,
04:31 when you're playing the role of a football player with cancer.
04:33 50 destroyed Ja's career. And when Ja was arrested, he lost the only thing he had left, his real family.
04:41 Your daughter was like, "My dad wasn't there when he was locked up."
04:43 And then when he wasn't locked up, he was on the road.
04:45 I think up until this point, I missed the point of what life was about.
04:49 When I went to prison, the only thing I missed was football games, you know, with my boys, being with my daughter, my wife.
04:55 I didn't miss being out on the road and doing tours.
04:59 Things I missed were little things, man. The things that really matter in life.
05:03 Ja realized he hadn't been the father his family needed and knew he had to make a change.
05:08 This second phase of my life, I'm going to enjoy it, enjoy my family.
05:13 I really have to take responsibility for my own actions.
05:17 And I encourage my kids to do the same.
05:20 Don't go pointing fingers. At the end of the day, look at yourself and say, "Why did I put myself in this situation?"
05:26 I've endured and bared all of that and came out on the other side of it.
05:31 We've been having this ongoing feud now for like 15 years.
05:35 Yeah.
05:35 I think it's time that we've grown past it.
05:38 I am removing myself from the circus.
05:41 But 50 continued attacking Ja instead of focusing on being the father his son needed.
05:47 50 Cent said that he bought out the first 200 seats at the Ja Rule show.
05:50 50 Cent's oldest son Marquise said, "I listened to a lot of Ja Rule."
05:55 I don't have a relationship with him.
05:57 50, you love your son?
05:58 I used to.
05:59 He thinks I'm entitled when that's not the case.
06:01 It's never been about the money for me.
06:03 It's more so the relationship.
06:04 By letting go of his feud with 50, Ja Rule focused on what was most important in his life,
06:10 being a good dad to his family.
06:12 I wouldn't change anything because what I've done in my life allows for where we're at now.
06:17 I'm living comfortably and my family's taking care of us.
06:19 We grew up with nothing and they grew up with something.
06:22 And that is what I work hard for, so that we break that cycle.
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