Ja Rule discusses why he considers himself a “better rapper” than 50 Cent
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On the 7PM in Brooklyn podcast with Carmelo Anthony and Kazeem Famuyide, Ja Rule explains why he is a better rapper than 50 Cent.
"I don't give a f*ck about that sh*t," Ja Rule says regarding his and 50 Cent's longstanding feud.
7PM in Brooklyn podcast featured Ja Rule discussing his ongoing feud with 50 Cent in the latest episode.
Ja Rule chooses the high road in dispute with 50, asserts he’s the ‘superior rapper.’
For more than 25 years, Ja Rule and 50 Cent have maintained their headline-grabbing feud, often exchanging playful jabs on social media as their careers as artists and entrepreneurs have developed.
During an interview with Carmelo Anthony and Kazeem Famuyide on the 7PM in Brooklyn podcast, Ja contended that both he and Fif merit respect from fans, while also highlighting what he considers his superior qualities as a rapper.
“But you don’t though,” Ja said when it was proposed that fans often feel as though they have to pick one or the other in these types of scenarios. “I know how fans see it but you really don’t. At the end of the day, you’ve gotta kinda love both or you gotta kinda respect both. You don’t gotta love both but you gotta respect both. You gotta appreciate both, and that’s just what it is. Even in rap competitions and battles and beefs and shit like that, you know I have a very different take on it than everybody does. … He has a take on it that was his take.”
“I feel like I was the better rapper,” he said. “I felt like I made the better records. I feel like my records aged better, still. So that’s how I feel inside. I don’t know how everybody else feels.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Ja argued that “one is an imitation of the other in a lot of ways,” zeroing in on what he sees as his ushering-in of the duet format in the 2000s. As Ja pointed out, despite prior criticism, 50 Cent himself also sang on his own records.
Regarding the possibility of them collaborating on a song, Ja apparently doesn't consider it likely.
“We’ve never done a record together,” he said. “We’ve never been friends, so I don’t know why people wanna see that.”
“That’s why I don’t sit here and promote the negativity between me and 50,” Ja explained. “I don’t give a fuck about that shit. I wish that Black man luck, man. Go ahead and do you, man. Get your money, man. But do right, do better. Because all you do is fucking shit on other Black people too. That’s all he does.”
Watch the full 7PM in Brooklyn podcast below.