50 Cent and Ja Rule have been actively involved in one of the most enduring rivalries in Hip-Hop history, entertaining fans with their back-and-forth disses over the last 20 years. Though the “Always On Time” artist claims he won their confirmed physical altercation, Tony Yayo recently recalled it going down differently.
“50 beat Ja Rule up in Atlanta,” the G-Unit member told Million Dollaz Worth Of Game during this week’s episode. “Fif K.O.’d that ni**a […] We at the same hotel. I was in the building. Ni**as tried to front on 50. Bow! 50 caught him stone cold. He a southpaw — that’s how 50 always knocked out ni**as in the hood ’cause he’s left-handed.”
Getting knocked out would already be embarrassing, but the “In Da Club” rapper allegedly added salt to the wound with his next action. “Ja Rule [yells out], ‘Murda!’ That ni**a’s eye [swells up],” Yayo added. “So we get in the elevator and that’s when 50 shows us the chain that’s in ‘Wanksta.’ He goes, ‘Look what I got.’ So he snuffed him and yanked him.” A swollen eye and stolen chain would understandably warrant maintaining a feud with someone for this long. Check out Tony Yayo telling the story below.
50 Cent and Ja Rule’s fight allegedly took place in 2000, and the latter gave his recollection of the altercation in his 2014 autobiography Unruly. “50 tried to swing on me, but I dipped, then I hit him with the baby Louisville Slugger,” Rule wrote. “Bam! I dropped the bat. I pulled the shirt over his head. I started catching him left, right, uppercut. I hit him with the crutch. We proceeded to whip his a**. I was putting in my work. 50 was crunched in the corner. I slammed the big tannoy speaker down on him.”
He even spoke about the situation as recently as last year during an interview with Piers Morgan. Morgan asked who would win a fight between the two, and Ja replied “That’s happened already too, Piers. You gotta do your research.” Naturally, the Uncensored host asked who won and the Queens rapper said, “I did, Piers.”
Chris Gotti, co-founder of Murder Inc. Records, gave his account of the fight during a VladTV interview in 2016. “We see him in Atlanta…Ja and 50 walk off, talking,” Gotti said. “Rule got that big voice. You hear him: ‘I don’t know you. Why are you making these records?’ 50 snuffed him…You wanna hear the real story? Ja took the snuff. Takes him. Has his shirt over his head. Hitting him right back. Gets out of his shirt and he starts running…Gets away. That’s what happened that day.”
Chris Gotti also confirmed that 50 Cent’s order of protection against Murder Inc. was real, and 50’s baby’s mother stated she was at the precinct when he filed it. The Power executive producer has never gone on record to discuss the matter, but it is safe to assume his account would be as entertaining as Tony Yayo’s, Ja Rule’s, and Gotti’s. Watch both interviews above.
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