Ja Rule Claps Back at 50 Cent After Irv Gotti Disrespect: ‘Go Ahead and Lie'
On Sunday, Ja hopped on X to fire a few shots at 50 Cent, who clowned Ja's appearance on The Breakfast Club last week. During that interview, Ja had told The Breakfast Club that Kenneth 'Supreme' McGriff talked him out of fighting with the G-Unit leader after Fif uploaded a picture of himself smoking hookah next to Irv Gotti's faux gravestone. Ja Rule, who has had beef with 50 Cent dating back years, said the antics made him want to go 'nuclear,' which 50 Cent clowned almost immediately.
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'The Breakfast Club should be ashamed of themselves asking questions that perpetuate violence,' 50 wrote on IG. 'This fool has been ready to go what he calls nuclear for 22 years. LOL.'
50 Cent then continued to clown the late Murder Inc. CEO by adding: 'Ya man in my Runtz right now!'
In his tweets, Ja told 50 to 'suck my di–' and demanded he shut his mouth until he do something about the people that shot him back in 2000.
'Until you do something to the n—as that shot you you can't troll no more…,' Ja wrote in the tweets below. '[Laughing face emoji] handle your business chump lmao…'
He went on to say: '@50cent N—a you're a used car salesman everything you do is trash music 1 good album after that trash liquor trash tv shows yeah I said it TRASH how many times you gonna make the same show that coke stepped on parenting trash character trash n—a you the garbage man.'
Ja closed things out by insinuating 50 Cent cooperated with the feds. 'From now on your name boo boo that's what they called you on the streets right lmfao,' Ja Rule wrote. 'Boo boo the fool… [laughing face emoji] 50 cent is a street n—a from Brooklyn you boo boo from Queens… Mc gusto cb4 a– n—a. You're right he told the Feds murder inc had him shot and they put us under federal indictment… [rat emoji]…@50cent Go ahead and lie tell these good people tell the paperwork fake so I can send this next shot… WE GOT RECEIPTS boo boo…'
50 Cent has yet to respond to Ja Rule's incendiary allegations, though he's previously denied snitching on anyone in Murder Inc.
'They'll say, 'He a rat' or, 'He this, this and that.' All you gotta do is ask them who I told on?' 50 Cent said on the Cigar Talk podcast in 2020. 'I ain't never told on no n—a in my life.'
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