Isn’t it amazing, that after years over commercial dominance, Ja Rule can’t get a single to stick in 2012? Surely the fact that his pinnacle was ten years ago plays a huge factor, as well as the current landscape of rap. However, the biggest setback may be that, while “Real Life Fantasy” is an extremely solid introspective from the former Murder Inc star’s upcoming Pain Is Love 2 album, it’s not at all what we’ve come to expect from the man’s radio records. Instead of the questionable singing and FM-freindly concepts Ja used to drop like clockwork every six months, the open book heard amidst this Hype Williams-directed visual is unfortunately too honest to make a splash on Clear Channel, and past bad blood halts it’s spins on the only Sirius channel that matters.

Still, when you’re behind bars for damn near two years, maybe having piece of mind means more than some SoundScan numbers.

We all know the saying, “Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t…” which has become the modus operandi on how the music industry deems it should cater to when measuring an album’s worth. Nevermind the caliber of the songs that are included on those albums. That would be insane, wouldn’t it? Read the rest of this entry »

No matter your stance on the guy, you’ve got to give it up for Ja Rule. Despite currently serving out a 28-month bid and having a negative connotation hanging over his head for maybe the rest of his life, this former rap superstar has stuck to his guns throughout the sliding slope Read the rest of this entry »

Quickly becoming one of our favorite posts to dedicate time towards – mainly because it involves both the writers and those who graciously stop by our neck of the e-woods – we present the third installment of The Maildrop. Read the rest of this entry »

Ja Rule is adjusting to prison life about as well as possibly expected. Similar to Lil Wayne and T.I. before him, Jeffery will be using his time behind bars to communicate with the public through a series of letters. Read the rest of this entry »

Barring any other factors, the next time Ja Rule can walk the streets of New York City will be the Fall of 2013. Allow that to marinate for a moment. Today, the feds decided to hand down 28 months to run concurrent with his already two year bid Read the rest of this entry »

Two wins and Dirk Nowitzki separated reality from my carefully orchestrated “I told you so” victory plan. Following the Bulls series and first seven and a half quarters against the Mavs, my bloodthirsty and egotistical tweet rant had already been written, edited and proofed 10 times over. Seriously, it was. Read the rest of this entry »

Just an overall strange week for famous Black guys. Plaxico gets out and the warden’s making room for Rule before the jail doors even get a chance to securely shut. In case it slipped the forefront of your memory, Ja’s going to jail stemming from a weapon charges following a 2007 NYC concert, Read the rest of this entry »

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Ja Rule hasn’t gone to jail over those gun charges yet, but he’s already making his plans for when he’s released and those plans include a 40 day, 40 night tour no sooner than he’s freed up.

“My ‘40 Days/40 Nights Around the World’ tour is being set up right now,” Rule exclusively tells Rap-Up.com. “I want the bus to come straight to the prison and take me to my first show. Read the rest of this entry »

Going out on a limb, I’m going to say 85% of the TSS readers have outright hated on Ja Rule, despite having never owned or heard one of his actual albums. Openly unabashed by the Murder Inc.’s murderous radio rampage during the the turn of the new millennium, I still have a hard time taking this five-foot-nothing 2Pac copy serious. Still, Jeffrey dropped consistent hits for around four years and eventually sold upward of six million albums – a feat unfathomable by today’s standards, so credit is due nonetheless.

Either way, aside from a few news stories and concurring two-year bid, Ja’s once raspy rule has dwindled so far from the spotlight his crossbreed of thug-pop had become merely an afterthought. That is, until the NYC native’s new single for Pain Is Love 2 appeared both out of place and thin air at YN’s place with 200-plus comments. All of which were basically skeptics like myself, who couldn’t help but embrace this seemingly “Real Life Fantasy.”

Obviously curious, I gave into the hype and found 50′s foe had actually done what I once thought unthinkable and delivered a jam doubters can openly rock with the windows down. Reminiscent without resentment, the former superstar unravels over a Queen-sampling 7 Auerelius-production and describes how dreams don’t always end how you pictured – especially when you piss them away over gun charges and easily-paid debts to the IRS.

You still probably won’t see me copping used copies of Venni Vetti Vecci anytime soon, but this definitely a good note to go out on for The Rule.

Ja Rule – “Real Life Fantasy” (Produced By 7 Aurelius)

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All this time, I thought Ja Rule was going to jail for weapons possession. Clearly, that’s not the case. The feds must have seen this video and sent Ja to the clink so he wouldn’t molest our faces with horrible visuals like these. Read the rest of this entry »

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