And the Question Arises: Can Ja Rule Make a Comeback?

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It's kind of a long shot, but...I think he can do it.

Right now, even though his nemeses' graves are still fresh and warm -- a sure sign that it's not completely over -- their CD shelves are still covered in dust.

I didn't even think twice about duke until I heard his verse on The Game's "One Blood" remix. This joint is oversaturated with twenty-something artists -- including Jadakiss, Styles P, and Fat Joe -- and drones on and on until the best comes last. Just when you were ready to turn it off, Ja comes on, and you tilt closer to the speaker to get a better listen of what he's saying, because somehow you knew there was gonna be some kind of subliminal something tucked in between those bars. When I was listening to him spit, it wasn't necessarily what he was saying -- 'cause he really wasn't saying anything much -- but it was the mockery and taunting in his voice that caught my ear.

Now if he would apply this same swag and demeanor with a couple of street joints and get them hot in these streets, I'm pretty sure he could get his shit together.

Being that he brought on a series of hits, including "Between Me and You," "I Cry," "Put it on Me," and "Always on Time," I believe that he still has to have it in him.

However, it's been said that once an artist hits the height of their career, it's not a wrap... it's a doobie. There's no coming back from that. But for some reason, I think ignoring the past and pushing that arrogant swag in any future joints he might release will do him some good.

It's a long shot BUT... looking at the current situation of the opposing entourage, it's definitely possible. I say put the past behind you, ignore the criticism, and add a little fuel to that arrogance.

290 Comments

first 4 sho

rule should give it a shot... same people that bought his records and made him a star are the same people that bought g unit that now buy d4l.

sorry meant dfb... stans buying pop b.s.

I think that Hip Hop is a revolving door for any emcee who can come correct. Even more so if he can return for a second battle with the person who virtually deaded his career. The Verse on the remix was hot if you can sit through the whole song.

yo
Ja Rule is the God of Hip hop Dead/Alive...as we kno dat's true and common niggaz watch @ "One Blood" Remix when Ja spits u can whut is gon' be
we cant say nuttin but
We just waitin 4 dat new Album!!!!...
u kno niggaz all enemis gotta lovit man
holaaaaaaaaaaaa

he shouldn't even try..who is waiting for it..I'm not

Hell yeah my bou ja can come back I think he should of never left.......50 so called destroyed his career but look @ 50 now he doin exactly wat ja did..... let alone he stole ja style..... ja got everybody he need on his side 2 destroy the little bit of the unit that Game left of them..... tell ja just go back to the "holla holla" days and put that past shit behind em and niggas rea recognize real and hell be good 1

ja i feel sorryfor that nigga he did his best but the coin is always on da flip side but truly real talk that nigga is soft he is trying

Aye Ja...Go jump a bridge or something, your muthafucking career is over.just admit it nigga.wtf a comeback? nigga i don't wanna hear your muthafucking cookie monster ass again.who are you goin to be like now biggie? fake pac.yeah its aight tho! but how long did it take for him to write that? shit!!!! about three years his best since ever. pop mutherfucker...eat a dick..BIIATCH!!!

I say ja can do it. Think about it, the public is so fickle that simply because 50 said he's garbage, public stopped listening to him. Now, the buzz pretty much has died down from 50 & crew. With that being said, I think now would be a perfect time for him to drop a album. But when he do it, he can't be trying to still beef with 50. That will get him nowhere. Actually may make him look pathetic. Just put out your normal formula...it'll work.

ja's verse on the remix wasnt all that, it seems hot bcause you were already amped by the fire spit by the other 20+ artists and u got excited. anyway i think ja can make a comeback if he leaves da beef gangsta type behind n go back to da duets lover boy singing all the time ja (those were his hits)

Ja Rule can give it a shot he still has it.

His verse on One Blood remix caught everybody ears and the mayority was happy for Ja cuz he spitted fireee

The haters are the same ones that ones loved his style and music untill 50 cent came around.

JA KEEP DOING YOUR THING

@ Sean & Bradley,

You both right. Before 50 came along, all of the people thats hating on ja now, was bumpin' "holla,holla" in their whips. He don't need to try the thug-gangsta tracks at all. Stick to the music for the ladies and the clubs. He'd be straight if he did that. I mean, he can have tracks with some hard beats, but don't get on the tracks trying to act like you gon' murk somebody. The public ain't goin' for that.

EVEN I HATE TO ADMIT JEFFREY WAS KINDA ALRIGHT ON THAT GAME REMIX

HE NEED TO COME STRAIGHT FOR 50'S HEAD AND ANYBODY ASSOCIATED WITH 50.

JEFFREY THE HOOD IS WATCHING NI99A. 50 IS READY TO FALL-U BETTA SEIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY NI99A-IRV EVEN GOT DMX TO SQUASH HIS BEEF WITH YOU.

JEFFREY THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE NI99A OR DO YOU STILL LIKE PERFORMING AT JEWISH BARMITZA'S NI99A

YES FO SHO RULE IS GONNA MAKE A COMEBACK AT LEAST RECKLESS IS NOT HATING LIKE SOHH-Eighty ON JA'S VERSE ON ONE BLOOD IM NO MURDER INC GROUPIE BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS U DIG THE VERSE WAS HELLA TIGHT N U CAN CLEARLY C HOMEY DOES NOT LIKE JA

WATCH OUT 4 YOUR BOY BIRMINGHAM J SR8 OUTTA ALABAMA N YA BOY BLACK BOY FROM BLACK WALL STREET THEY FINNA BLOW UP

"but it was the mockery and taunting in his voice that caught my ear."

WTF is u talkin about? his tone is always "feed me cookie". His verse wasn't that hot, it wasn't the worse but it aint hot fire like people claiming. He only gettin buzz on the internet which means nothing in the real world (Lupe Fiasco).

Ja had a place 8 years ago being grimey, then singing love songs. Then he got exposed by 50, and tried to go back to grimey after the hole world say he was a punk. So what he gonna try and do now? he can't be hard cause we all know its fake, and he can't sing love songs cause that's what made us sick in the first place.

i also agree, ja still has it in him to do well for himself, look at the way things are going for 50 n dem? its a joke but as long as he don't beef than he can make something for himself,i mean after making that one blood remix, look at how many people on the track thats had a dispute with 50 or g-unit one way or another, nas, jim jones, styles & jada, ja rule, fat joe, either way 50 can't come back n diss all those people for being on game's track it would be absurd and people would lose respect or little of what they have for him, and pls don't act like you weren't bumpin between me and you when that shit came out

yo
Ja Rule is the God of Hip hop Dead/Alive...as we kno dat's true and common niggaz watch @ "One Blood" Remix when Ja spits u can whut is gon' be
we cant say nuttin but
We just waitin 4 dat new Album!!!!...
u kno niggaz all enemis gotta lovit man
holaaaaaaaaaaaa

Posted by: Vanlon at November 9, 2006 05:19 AM

This nigga is on Murder Inc's payroll.
Now go sit in a corner, you're on an official timeout.

STOP BEING STUPID! THE COOKIE MONSTER'S CAREER IS OVER! STOP TRYING TO MANUFACTURE WAYS FOR JA FOOL TO MAKE A COMEBACK. 50 DESTROYED THIS DUDE'S CAREER. PLUS, YOU NEED MAJOR TALENT TO MAKE A COMEBACK AFTER 3 YEARS OF INACTIVITY! THE LAST TIME I CHECKED, HIS NAME ISN'T SHAWN CARTER. IF HE COULD MAKE A COMEBACK, DEF JAM WOULD HAVE RENEWED HIS CONTRACT. THEY DIDN'T! STOP LIVING IN FANTASY LAND JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE G-UNIT!

JA RULE BABY

GET READY 4 HOMEY 2 DO HIS THING MURDER INC BACK ON TOP OF THINGS TOO

FU*K G-UNIT

G-UNOT

in 2002, i was like, fuck ja, in terms of him as an artist, not cos of 50, but the whole, tupac/pain is luv and all dem singalong videos meant i dint take him serious.i just moved him out of d hip hop category and put him into the nelly category. i was never a ja fan,that veni vetti album didnt exactly make my world spin, and after that he just went pop, so honestly, i couldnt care less if he came back or not. but there is a difference between a comeback and a successful comeback, and remember, pain is love and rule 336 is multi plat albums, so for him to come back and go gold even in todays sales climate would be a failure, and wot about his image? if he came back singin like he was in dem mary and ashanti videos, niggas wont support, if he comes back gritty, niggas will be like, stay in yo lane nigga, u aint hard. he should definately try n do his thing tho

That's exactly why Hip Hop is fake today. Because of these fake ASS FANS. I was a Ja Rule fan when Venni Vetti Vecci came out. As soon as he got on that love shit (even though the Pop world embraced him)I stopped listening. Always been a 50 fan since I heard Robbin' Industry niggas, plus I'm from Southside. We don't even like the nigga NO MORE. Anyway, Ja Rule is a PUSSY. He was riding off of the Preme Team. Come on. ALL of MURDER INC shit was put on blast already. For the people that like hopping on bandwagons and shit, go ahead. Now since 50 is not liked ev1 is gonna jump on Ja's dick. FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!! Regardless of what they both PUSSY. Neither one is a real GANGSTA. So Jeffrey go back to being Supreme's Bitch BOY!!

Niggas was sicvk of him singing and falling to his knees in the rain like he was aaliyah so whether or not it was 50 or somebody else he would've fell off regardless...don't ya'll remember when free asked if he was singing? even he knew right there that he was puttin' out music softer than baby shit

Ja is still hot don't be a lame, only cause 50 sell more records don't mean ja is wack except 50 who in the g-unit got more platinum than ja?Everybody got at last one of ja records so...

Kids, kids Jarule is no longer Jarule U guys are still stuck on it. He's now Loki his comeback will be a major boost for the Gunit camp coz it will now be Loki Game and associates( the oldies of hiphop, Nas, Jada and the rest of moffos.
not a Gunit fan but Young Buck's soldier.

Buck the World coming Nov 28, 2weeks after Doctor's Analyst

ja rule has a chance to come back, the reason why he was destroyed was not necessarily that he wasnt a good rapper, its just that 50 was so hot when he first came out that everybody was following him. so when he got at Ja-Rule naturally people listened and said fuck it and fuck ja-rule. but hiphop gets tired of all the beefin i mean NY hiphop has always been the forefront of fashion, style, hiphop, etc. and people are just tired of the beef. I mean if people are going to spend 12 dollars on a D4l album or Jibbs or UNK, you already know hiphop is in trouble.

now as far as Irv Gotti goes i dont have any respect for him or what hes tryin to do by befriending Game. We all know Irv and Supreme set up that hit on 50, and when it didnt work, 50 went right at em. thats the real reason for that beef, 50 said it himself that they can never be friends. so dont expect ja-rule to talk shit agains the Unit without the camp airing his ass out again. bottom line, Ja better be careful about what he says or it could be another knockout by the Unit on his ass.

Ja Rule A.K.A. Loki has a chance to come back if he goes strictly pop. If the nigga does a couple more records that appeal to the retards that bought D4L albums he cn come back. But if he tries to beef with 50 again, it's gonna be over.....again. The nigga should stick to singing to hoes and get off the gangsta tip cause we all know he ain't a thug. I ain't a G-Unit soldier and I ain't a Ja fan (NEVER IN MY LIFE), that's just the truth. And I'm tirde of niggaz saying Ja's first joint was a classic, face it that shit had like 2 good songs on it.

Not a Ja fan but for all those that are saying 50 destroyed his career 50 snitched on them niggas on tape numerous times and made JA and The INC hot so what half way retarded person wouldn't sit back and wait for the BS to blow over when niggas is getting the feds to take a look at you.That nigga 50 did what he did so he can get on Ja's hustle of singing on what should be a rap song cause that's all that nigga is doing now is singing.I hope JA does make a comeback even though I won't be buying that shit I'm just a 50 hater.Now I said so nobody will have to waste their time saying how I'm this and that and how 50 and them are so great.

the unit is stil putting out good music regardless of what the industry is showing.. as far as ja rule..sorry they dug u up dude..games just using you now to help go against the unit so you are only a ploy,,go back to the grave .

Yes ja rule can come back, but not no gangsta rapper, he would have to be like. A LLcool j or somthing make songs for the ladies, cause nobody believes him feel me

Ja come back? ha ha ha That shit'll never happen. Shit new york can't come back. And that last verse was ass and ya'll know it, you motherfuckers just got put hope in somebody because ya'll don't have anybody. I used to like Ja until he started acting extra gangsta and fronting and shit but dude is a wrap. Dude has no credability and has a played out flow. It's a wrap for New York get it through your heads you bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No everybody does not have a Ja Rule record. I'm not a big fan of his but if he got a record out that I like I'll listen to it. As for him making a comeback and the whole Loki shit is crazy. He supposed to be coming out in 2007 and attacking 50. I mean shit is so old. I don't wanna hear another damn record about him dissin 50. Make music like you were before the whole beef thing. What is up with him and the Game and 50? I'm starting to think all these niggaz was fags and 50 stop letting them suck his dick so now they mad. They sound like some fucking scorned girlfriends who caught their nigga fucking another bitch. Let the shit go and make this damn money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WATS ROCIN SOHH?

NAH JA CAN'T MAKE A COMEBACK! FUCK HIM!
OH YES I GUNIT ALL DAY!

=TAH=

Or maybe he should pimp Superhead and pop X all the time. Nobody's really listening for him except G-Unit haters.

I just got word that Buck Tha World has been pushed back.

Click the name link to read the news.

Hahaha...thanks Reckless for giving me a good laugh while I have my coffee and donut this morning...

Ja doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell at coming back into this game and it has nothing to do with 50 and G-Unit, IMO.

Ja was a "fad rapper" and as we all know "fad rappers" don't have longevity in this thing. If he had a message in his music, besides some ole "thug luv" bullshit, then maybe, but honestly, can anybody really say with a straight face that they are anticipating a new CD from this cat? I know I'm not, but hey, if he wants to dig himself deeper into the "washed up rapper hole", do it. Cats like him and LL, need to leave the game on a good note, nigga you got hella platinum albums, you still eating, open up a detail shop or something...I'm requesting that they bar that nigga from the studio...please put the padlock on...

@ GenieDa1,

YOu got a valid point. 50 does do a lot of singing on peoples hooks. thats the same thing he accused ja of doing. Seriously though, if ja sticks to the songs for the ladies and party jawns, he'll be straight. But if he trying to act like he murdering peoople, then he gon' look stupid.

ja dead and g unit dead so who cares..in fact ny is dead..all these 4qtrs joints droppin aint none of them gonna bring ny back..why?because the south aint fucking with it..ny has di ssed the south so much and its about to show..Game 2 these sales are gonna hurt...jeezy gonna do good..the rest of those old niggaz with all that hype will str8 brick..its gonna look good the 1st week see me in the 2nd or 3rd week when niggaz shit drop like rain....and when niggaz see what nas really thinks about them in that book from Carmen..we really gonna see a war...ny get yall shit 2gether..jim jones baaallllliiinnnn...on them clownz and he aint no nice rapper but the nigga speaking the truth about them clownz..anybody seen tru life?

N-Site

I MOS DEF AGREE WITH YOU. HE JUST NEEDS TO LEAVE HIS CAREER ALONE. HIM AND LL.

=TAH=

2 ALL U DUMB FUCKS THAT FEEL THAT IT HAS TO DO WITH NORTH SOUTH AND WEST. IT DOESNT SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TRYNNA START SOMETHING! DUMB FUCKS

=TAH=

Seeing how 50 has put out songs like Candy Shop and that other shit he got out now called Puppy Love, I dont see why Ja cant and shouldnt come back. If he does, 50 cant go at him for putting love songs when that is the same thing he is doing now. Ja had that taunting tone in his voice on the ONE BLOOD remix cause Game put him on it and Game is that nigga who is goin at 50 right now. Ja probably feels that Game must the most cockiest nigga on Earth to even dare put him on a song knowing how much 50 hates anybody who has any contacts with Ja, especially a former GUNIT member.

welll I'm not saying i'm actually waiting for a cd from Ja, but if he comes out with decent material, i'll cop it. Just like g-unit or anybody else. if your songs are hot,i'll buy it. if its not...it'll stay on the shelf. LOL. thats real talk.

@Big C

What in god's name is a "jawn"?

50 CALLS PPL OUT FOR CERTAIN SONGS THEY MAKE THEN DO IT! CUZ 50 IS THAT DUDE! GAME NEEDS PPL TO BACK HIM UP BCUZ HE CANT DO SHIT BY HIMSELF...GAME CAN MAKE A HOT RECORD BUT HE NEEDS SOMEONE ELSE WIT HIM! DONT DENY IT PPL! GAME GOT JA ON THAT TRACK BCUZ HE WANTS TO BE ON THE TRACK WHERE JA SO CALLED KILLED IT. IT IS WHAT IT IS. 50 IS THAT NIGGA AND JA CAN'T COME BACK. IF HE DOES HES JUST GONNA EMBARRASS HIMSELF.

=TAH=

Ja rule can come backk but the nigga harry o in hus camp is nastyyyy real talk watch when he come outt

NAH JA CANT COME BACK CAUSE HE SIMPLY IS NOT SMART ENOUGH THE ONLY WAY HE HAS A CHANCE IS TO START ALL OVER AGAIN AND HIT THE MIX TAPE SCENE HARD BUT IF HE WAS DOING THAT ALL THE WHILE HE WOULD HAVE NEVER LEFT THE RAP GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE ITS NOT THE SIGING EVERYONE SINGS BIGGIE DID IT PAC DID IT ITS OK AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THE STREET CRED THATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JA AND 50 WHEN 50 SINGS ITS LIKE WHEN BIGGIE WAS SINGING OR PAC THIS IS MUSIC REMEMBER PPL. SOME R AND B SINGERS COME FROM THE HOOD TO JA HAS NO LANE TO FIT IN HE CANT GO GANGSTER EVERYONE WILL KNOW THATS A ACT THEREFORE HIS SIGING MAKES HIM LOOK LIKE A BITCH JUST LIKE THAT QUESTION SAMUL L JACKSON ASKED IN PULP FICTION AND NEW YORK AS A WHOLE IS NOT ON TOP LIKE WHEN HE WAS GOOD

14 year old white girls will not buy a Ja CD.

Hell yeah my bou ja can come back I think he should of never left.......50 so called destroyed his career but look @ 50 now he doin exactly wat ja did..... let alone he stole ja style..... ja got everybody he need on his side 2 destroy the little bit of the unit that Game left of them..... tell ja just go back to the "holla holla" days and put that past shit behind em and niggas rea recognize real and hell be good 1

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Look fool, 50 ain't doing what Ja did, JaFool started making bubblegum pop music, the nigga was singing entire songs, sounding like he had been eating gravel, he stopped rapping. 50 writes songs, meaning he raps and writes the hook, which is the main part of the song, anybody can rap but The Game, Jadakiss, & Joe Buddenm writing a hook for a beat is tough, a hook that makes sense I might add. JaFool needs to go sit down somewhere, he's done, I didn't like him then, don't like him now and never will. 50 destroyed his career, 50 has a bigger fight than with The Game & JaRule, he has to figure out how to get people back to hiphop/rap and not that bubblegum crap, it's his fault that rap is where it is today, he came out to hard and strong with GRODT, it's hard to back a masterpiece, now the public has gone to crap rap, D4L, Jibbs, stupid sh*t like that, he shouldn't have taken 2006 off, she should have come with fire again like 2003-2005, he needs to come back because these fake losers are gunning to run the game but they are running it in the ground, Lloyd Banks and Buck can't keep G-Unit alive, the General 5-0 has to do that. F*ck JaFool, stay home, no one wants to hear you. Irv quit campaigning for the nigga, he's done. I know it's hard to swallow that the nigga you tried to black ball killed your record label.

50 IS WHAT IT IS!

=TAH=

the only reason rule can make a comeback is cause people arent feeling 50 like they used to.when 50 had everyones attention,it seemed like what he said about other artists stuck to em.who really cares though,when that nas album dropping.

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