Ja Rule Wishes He Had the Internet During 50 Cent Beef: ‘It Would Have Been a Different Outlook’

Ja Rule wishes he had the internet at the height of his feud with 50 Cent.

In a new interview with Hot 97’s TT Torrez, the 49-year-old rapper discussed how the digital era has changed rap beefs, including the feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar last summer.

“I kind of wish I had the internet when I had my beef going on,” Rule said at the 43-minute, 30-second mark at the video linked above. 

“I would’ve seen things in real time, you know what I’m saying? They would’ve seen who this guy is in real time and then then it would have been a different outlook on what this is. You would’ve been like, ‘Oh, now I get it. This guy’s a fucking fraud.’ You don’t get a chance to see that, feel that … ‘cuz there was no internet.”

Rule said he watched the internet dissect Drake and Kendrick’s diss tracks “lyric for lyric” but conceded that we’re living “in a different time right now.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Torrez asked the “Always On Time” rapper what he thinks Drake should be doing now. 

“Drake’s in a position right now and I know this position well,” Ja lamented. “He’s in a position where two plus two is adding up to 7, and he just doesn’t understand it. He’s like, ‘How can I be the hottest motherfucker for 10 years and now everybody wants me to lose?’ He’s not understanding the dynamic of that.”

Ja connected Drake’s current struggles to a sports analogy. He argued that 20-year-old Bronny James, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers, where his 40-year-old father, LeBron James, has been playing since 2019, has to prove his talent on the court—unlike in other areas of entertainment. Ja also drew parallels to his own career, where despite making hit records, he couldn’t control how people perceived him after Fifty’s rise.

“You gotta prove it on the court,” Ja said. “That’s why I love athletics so much. Because I can be the hardest working motherfucker in this industry and then fucking doing the greatest shit, killing it, putting up records people love, and then 50 Cent comes out, shits on me [and] everybody says, ‘Oh, we like him better than Ja Rule now.’”

“I put in the work. I worked the hardest, still gonna work the hardest, still gonna be great. But that opinion? I can’t change from people,” he added.

When asked if Drake should take the same playbook, Ja said, “Drake could go and make a thousand fucking dope records right now. People are rejecting his deposit. So that’s what he’s going through right now. But if he was an athlete, and you go put up fucking 55—you gonna put up 60 points in the night, I can’t deny that, man.”

“Here’s my message to anybody: stay out of rap beefs,” Ja Rule said towards the end of the interview.

As far as his own long-running feud with 50 Cent, Ja insists he’s over it.

“I don’t give a fuck what happened,” he said. “I’m a real one, you know what I’m saying? I don’t think about that shit, it don’t bother me.”