Ja Rule as soon as picked his 4 favorite rappers of all time

Queens emcee and star of Homicide Inc, Ja Rule, was a hip-hop star through the late Nineties and early 2000s. The lyricist (actual title Jeffrey Atkins) dominated the charts on the flip of the millennium, and with hits corresponding to ‘Always On Time’ and ‘Mesmerize’, the musician was unstoppable.

Together with his R’n’B-infused songs that includes Ashanti and Jennifer Lopez, he was a king at one level. Nonetheless, as his beef with 50 Cent started to tug on, by the mid-2000s, Atkins had turn into irrelevant whereas his Queens counterpart was flying excessive with albums corresponding to The Bloodbath, Curtis and Earlier than I Self Destruct.

Since then, Atkins has been concerned in varied endeavours. In 2016, he co-founded Fyre Media, the corporate that tried to carry the catastrophic Fyre Competition that noticed hundreds of ticket-holders defrauded by the rapper’s enterprise associate Billy McFarland. In 2023, he then launched his own wine brand, Rose Vine Cellars.

Nonetheless, Atkins usually visits standard hip-hop media retailers and radio reveals to advertise his enterprise ventures. That mentioned, in 2022, following the launch of his live-streaming app Iconn Reside, the ‘Caught Up’ musician swung by The Breakfast Membership to speak music and enterprise.

Throughout his dialog with hosts DJ Envy, Charlemagne Tha God and Angela Yee, Ja spoke concerning the totally different generations of hip-hop and, whereas doing so, talked about a few of his favorite artists of all time.

When requested about who would seem on his Mount Rushmore of hip-hop, Atkins mirrored on how laborious it’s to pin down his favourites, responding, “It’s tough. Because it’s eras, you know what I mean?”

Including that two distinguished Brooklyn legends have to look on the checklist, Atkins continued, “If I just had to do four. You would have to put Jay on there. I would put Pac on there. B.I.G. gotta go on there.”

Ja was nonetheless figuring out who he was going to provide the final slot to. Nonetheless, he unveiled that he must return to the Nineteen Eighties or Nineties, stating, “I would go with older school guys. Like either Big Daddy Kane, or Rakim, or KRS because of what they did for the culture, and what they meant to the culture.”

Talking concerning the affect the figures had on the tradition, Atkins continued, “What Rakim was to a Nas, you already know what I’m saying? What KRS was to an entire technology of rappers. Kane was the primary n*gga I seen like, ‘This n*gga is fly, this n*gga get all the bitches.’”

He concluded by praising some of the cultures female MCs who often get overlooked, saying, “But you know what? We never put the ladies in there. Come on, man! MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa. They are the reason other women picked up a microphone, period. How can you leave them off? You gotta tick one of them and put them on there.”

You can watch Ja Rule’s look on The Breakfast Membership within the video under.