recording the album and everybody was doing it – What made you do that?Įcstasy! I’m saying, it’s a big drug. You also have a song, “Extasy,” on this record, about the drug ecstasy. But, you know, sometimes when you have a big, big record, other things get missed.
They always quote me as the “murder, murder” guy, but I had records on there that wasn’t all about that – “Daddy’s Little Baby,” “Race Against Time” – records that were serious. People missed a lot of the points I was trying to make on my first album. You’ve gone from yelling “murder” on “Holla Holla” to creeping with chicks on your new album. Not bad for a little guy from Queens with a scratchy voice. Now Ja -– born Jeffrey Atkins -– is also set to star as a crooked cop, opposite Denzel Washington, in Training Day, and is cementing deals on his new record label, MI2 (Murder Inc, 2). It’s already yielded two bouncy hit singles of its own – “Put It on Me” and “Between Me and You” – and has been hovering in the Top Ten for weeks. The doubters got a quick chin check when his second album, Rule 3:36, debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200. Ja Rule was looking an awful lot like a hip-hop one-hit wonder a couple of years ago: His 1999 single, the catchy, boisterous “Holla Holla,” seemed more like a novelty tune from one of DMX’s buddies than a career-building smash.
