Ja Rule Said He’s ‘Not Proud’ of Behavior, but Won’t Reconcile With 50 Cent and Tony Yayo
After a recent video showing his altercation with Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda, Ja Rule opened up about where he stands with them and 50 Cent. Ja Rule has been in a longstanding feud with all these men, and the recent incident appears to have only thrown fuel on the fire. He said that while he regrets his behavior, he doesn’t have any plans to set aside his negative feelings about the other men.
50 Cent trolled Ja Rule after his recent fight with Tony Yayo
On a recent Delta flight from San Francisco to New York City, Ja Rule got into a heated argument with Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda. Footage of the disagreement shows the men shouting at each other. Ja Rule later admitted he threw a pillow at Yayo’s head.
“These f***ing clowns…” he posted on his Instagram Stories afterward (via People). “I saw them when I got on I was laughing like look at these two clowns lol they look like they saw a ghost deer in the headlights they always talking s*** so I addressed them lol.”
Ja Rule appeared to leave the plane after the incident to get a different flight.
50 Cent, who has been feuding with Ja Rule for years, later shared the clip to his Instagram. He wrote in the caption, “He was by his self so he had to make a scene so they could remove his scary a**.” Both Murda and Yayo responded with crying laughing emojis.
Ja Rule said he doesn’t want to reconcile with 50 Cent or Tony Yayo
Though Ja Rule initially described the incident as “hilarious,” he later expressed regret for his actions.
“I’m not proud of my behavior it’s goofy to me,” he said in a statement. “I’m a grown man about to be a proud grandfather and I wish that video of me wasn’t out there. I don’t like people taking me out of my character so for that I apologize to my wife, family, fans, businesses and investment partners. I want people to know at the end of the day I’m still a man, and I’m going to stand my ground. I don’t start trouble.”
Though he apologized to his family, fans, and business partners, he did not extend the sentiment to 50 Cent, Yayo, or Murda.
“Sometimes in life, people have enemies, and that’s okay,” Ja Rule said, per Complex. “Everybody can’t be friends… But what I’m saying is, we don’t also have to be at war. There’s room for us to be not friends and also not be at war.”
The bad feelings are still there, and he anticipates that they always will be. Still, he seemed to indicate that he wouldn’t get into a verbal altercation with them anytime soon.
“I don’t deal with that side,” he said. “I don’t f*** with them; they don’t f*** with me. That’s fine. But, I also don’t have to be at war.”
He once said the feud was a bad thing
While Ja Rule doesn’t plan to set aside the feud, he once admitted it wasn’t a good thing. It divided the New York hip-hop scene.
“Me and 50’s s***, that s*** f***ed up New York hip-hop,” he said on 7PM in Brooklyn With Carmelo Anthony. “It really did because it separated a lot of n****s in New York.”
While he said he saw himself as the better rapper, he extended respect to his longtime rival.
“You don’t gotta love both, but you gotta respect both. You gotta appreciate both, and that’s just what it is,” he said. “Even in rap competitions and battles and beefs and sh*t like that, I have a very different take on it than everybody does. He has a take on it that was his take.”
