Well, we’ve come to that once-a-year-event where Ja-Rule manages to sneak himself into a headline. This time, it’s over a claim he made that he is the LeBron James of rap, raising questions that Ja may not actually know who LeBron James is and what he does.
Who would have thought that Ashanti and Ja Rule would be coming for the Carters?
In one of my all-time favorite Dave Chappelle stand-up routines, he discusses celebrity worship and laments on our tendency to care what famous people think about tragic events. He lampooned MTV’s search for a quote from Ja Rule on the events of September 11: “Get hold of this muthafucka so I can make sense of all…
Update: April 28, 2017 3:52 p.m. est:
Last summer our social content producer, Danielle Young, was daydreaming at her desk about Chance the Rapper and rejoicing in his MTV Video Music Awards performance, and she wanted to use a hashtag to signify just how much joy exudes from his music. And, so, #BlackBoyJoy became a thing.
In 2000, I wrote a cover story on Ja Rule for The Source. Ja Rule and his then-girlfriend Aisha, high school sweethearts who had already been together for ten years, lived about ten minutes away from me in Jersey so I was able to hang out at their home the day before we all left for Los Angeles for the American Music…
