Did Ja's peak end up lasting longer than 50's? 50 absolutely destroyed Ja, but his career kinda ended up being disappointing after get rich

I heard that even though The Massacre did numbers, 50's hype was already starting to fade away before that album dropped and people could already tell it will be over soon.

Ja Rule a legend that's no doubt

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Pain Is Love is one of ny favorite albums. Sorry Fif.

for me, the singles for that album felt very "meh" I was forcing myself to like them, especially Candyshop. I was way more into the stuff Kanye and the sound he and others were doing at the time

Candy Shop lowkey killed his career

It was a huge song but yeah nobody looked at 50 the same way again

Dude dropped Beg For Mercy, Get Rich soundtrack and The Massacre after GRODT. Plus some dope mixtapes

Curtis was just mostly weak. But if you were a 50 fan, you knew he liked to make records like Candy Shop on his mixtapes.

Curtis still had some dope singles though. It was just a mostly lazy album.

He was making songs with a very strict formula for sure. Jam Master Jay taught him. I don't think 50 was a naturally gifted rapper and musician. Just so ambitious it was impossible to block him.

With Candy Shop the general public probably went from seeing him as a gangsta to something closer to a Pitbull/Flo Rida type rapper.

Nah bro, that album sold record numbers in just three days of counting. Plus his features with Game were huge. The beef with game alienated a lot of his west coast/Dre base, then his sales beef with Ye happened and his singles leading up to curtis (save for I Get Money) were weaker, then the album leaked and wasnt great and it was over from there

Enough hits to wash a majority of artists in a versus and he wasn't a bad rapper but the same people hating wouldn't know this

100%
Ja Rule was drake before drake was drake

Agree

I heard that Curtis would've been a huge flop without Ye carrying him with the sales contest thing lol.

@Goo Also a big factor in 50s decline was him getting Jaw surgery after the release of massacre which took away a lot of the grittiness in his voice after they removed the bullet

@Goo Also a big factor in 50s decline was him getting Jaw surgery after the release of massacre which took away a lot of the grittiness in his voice after they removed the bullet

Yeah I agree with this, that was definitely a factor as well

Idk about that I Get Money was a big single, and ayo technology did decent too. Still kill didn't blow up though and fire was hot garbage.

KTT GEN Z wouldn't know

I was a Ja Rule Stan back in middle school

I Get Money was like his final moment before falling off people's radar, was more of a fluke than anything imo lol

Ayo Technology was big bc of JT and Timbo, and I'll Still Kill had Akon in his prime

Whats Ja Rule’s best album?

Most underrated Ja song ever. The first verse always gets me going dumb

The hypocrisy of that entire beef was hilarious

1. They clown him for singing and making pop songs when 50 went and did the same thing
2. Ja disses his daughter and em can't respond back outside of getting angry calling him an ecstacy addict when he himself was a degenerate
3. They clown him for trying to act like pac when they were slurping pac just as much if not more

Hardest beat I ever heard.

Only one did it justice though. He had a good ear for beats