50 Cent and Tony Yayo, members of the hip-hop group G-Unit, filed a lawsuit against Ja Rule and his associates following a violent altercation at the Hit Factory recording studio in New York City. This incident was part of a longstanding feud between G-Unit and Ja Rule’s group, Murder Inc.
As a special guest in an interview on the “My Expert Opinion Show” hosted by Math Hoffa, alongside others like Mecc, Champ, Bigga, and Gat, Ja Rule was asked what transpired and if he was sued.
“When you say you handled the problem, did he sue y’all?”
Math Hoffa asked Ja Rule.
“Yes, how much absolute… How much money?”
Math Hoffa asked again.
Ja Rule then began narrating the whole issue and what exactly transpired, saying,
“He [50 Cent]… Imma tell y’all the story. He [50 Cent] sued us. Yayo also sued us. Um! I think there was another gentleman in the room I think that sued us too. All of them got paid Expect 50. He got his record deal, got pulled off the lawsuit.”
Ja Rule, in the interview, continued stating that 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, and the other person started the aggression yet still portrayed themselves at the end as victims simultaneously.
That act was a strategy by 50 Cent to start an industry beef for business purposes, which he [Ja Rule] wasn’t in line with or by.
He stated categorically that 50 Cent intentionally and purposely used the feud to elevate his career while creating a narrative that would resonate with fans:
“I’ve been through a lot as an artist. I would say that the things I’ve been through are very minor compared to the things the net says.
Anything happens to Ja Rule, and things blow out of proportion. I don’t see the things that I’ve been through as hardships as people see them. I see them as things that I’ve been able to learn from and grow from. That was how I was able to keep my own side of this shit. I know niggas that would have folded in my position.”
“On many occasions, the beef shit, the jail shit, I don’t hide that, and then people get mad at me for having free confidence in me. People like to project their personal shit on you. They can never do the things you do. When they look at athletes like Michael Jordan… they look at that as a miracle shit. And that’s how I’m able to keep growing. A lot of people don’t have that.
And I say it all the time, I talk to business houses, and I always say I wish I could bottle up my confidence and sell it. A lot of successful people don’t have self-confidence, and I’d be like, how did you get this far? I just feel that you don’t have to always bring other Black people down to succeed.”
So 50 Cent doing that would generate attention, establish himself as a street-savvy underdog, and fuel record sales. He further launched his diss tracks “Back Down” and “Wanksta,” which built hype for his debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
