xxl: you and 5o haven't crossed paths since?
ja rule:"we've been in the same city,same spot,suposed to be in the same places-have not seen him.Grammy Awards, no 50.Number-one album in the country,hottest album,hottest rapper right now in the country,and you're not at the Grammy awards?Your man's performing,takes an award, and you're not there? you don't come take your seat,Em? You never sat down at the awards. You stay in the back the whole ****ing time. I wan't supposed to do nothing but slap you *****,you shoud've took you seat. It wasn't gonna be nothing. YOu can take a slap. If you would've went any further,then i would've whopped your ass,*****.But a slap? you can take a slap.I was waiting.confrontation,*****-show you face.Talk about it be about it.And when i get my ****in hands on 50 again,i'ma wear his ass out.Him,Em,Dre,any one of these *****s.I'm gonna wear they ass out on top of the raps."
XXl:many people believe Ja wants to be 2pac
Irv gotti: Listen,Ja ain't never want to be 2pac.Ja can not change his physical appearance.The guy doesn't work out or nothing.Yet he's still cut up.Everybody wears bandanas,it's a hip-hop thing.We love and respect pac just like every one else.I'ma openly say:i sampled pac's music because of my love for the *****.And when i sample his ****,his mama gets paid.I love pac.I love that ***** with a passion,cause his music ran through me.But the ***** wasn't just about beef,the ***** was deep.That beef **** ,that wasn't what pac was about.He was about black people.His moms was a panther.He was about black people,listen to his rcords,man!
xxl:What are your feeling on Eminem's success?Do you subscribe to the benzino theory that Eminem's sucess-as a white person-is bad for hip-hop?
Irv gotti:No i think anytime that somebody is rhyming and sell that many records,it's good for hip-hop,because it exposes it to a wider,broader audience that may not have listned to hip-hop before.But because he sell so many records there's a lot of ****-riding of Eminem,in my opinon.I'ma pose a question: I didn't see 8Mile in the movies,because it was sold out everywhere.But i seen it when i flew overseas.They were talking"Oscar-worthy" When i look at 8 mile.I think it's Krush groove.It's a story of a guy coming up and trying to get on in hip-hop music.That's what Krush groove was about.
Why didn't Run get"Oscar-worthy" nomination when he did Krush Groove?
But Eminem does? It's definitely a racist thing.The cracker got it good,because when i hear"lose yourself" it sounds like backpack rap.
xxl: you've had two altercations with 50.Let's start from the begining.
JaRule: A promoter put us on the same bill in atlanta .He didn't know,i didn't know either.I'm outside in Atlanta.I had one of them little Louisville slugger bats-like the little ones-around my neck.So they pull up.We have a mutual friend involved.He says,"yo ja, you know he's sorry about the record(your life's on the line),will you talk to the *****?" Aight,i'll talk to the *****,**** itg,He's like,"you know the record's already out there i can't pull the record back" And being who i am,I'm like "you know what,i dont give a ****,i dont like you cause you think you that *****,you maknig "How to Rob: then you make a record about me.I'm like.I dont like you *****.And i dont think you are talented.And i'll ****ing crush you.And how ever you want to do it,it's what ever.So he ****in snuffed me-boom.So as soon as he snuffed me i went back boom.I pulled the shirt over his head,dropped the bat and started catchin him.My man O picked up the bat and started crackin him.He had peoplke with him.NOt my fault they didn't jump in.Our mutual friend breaks it up.50's chain popped,my chain popped.Our mutual friend was picking up our jewelry.They go inside,so i pick up the little garbage can-with the little sand top that be in front of the hotels- picked up one of those and chased him inside the hotel and threw the **** as the *****z was going inside the elevator.