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It seems like just yesteryear Irv Gotti and Ja Rule’s Murder Inc. roster were giving Jay-Z and Roc-a-fella a run for their money as the hottest Hip-Hop record label in the music game. Then 50 Cent signed to Dr. Dre and Eminem’s Shady/Aftermath imprint and took a bulldozer to the Murder Inc. empire.
After going through their own personal trials a tribulations more than a decade later Irv Gotti and Ja Rule link up again in preparation for a possible Murder Inc. reunion tour and sit down with DJ Envy and Angela Yee to talk about their children, the lessons they’ve learned over the years, and what’s next for them in their careers.
Whether it was Ja Rule opening up about that Fyre Festival turned survival of the fittest contest or Irv Gotti revealing an upcoming record with the game’s most polarizing celebrity, this was one of the most entertaining interviews you’ll ever hear from the Murder Inc. OG’s.
Here are the 8 things we learned from Irv Gotti and Ja Rule on The Breakfast Club.
1. Cheat Code
Irv Gotti admits to helping his kids “cheat life” by having them forego a college education and put them on to the big boy business straight outta high school where they currently have six-figure salaries. At least he didn’t bribe their way into some prestigious universities. Ja Rule for his part feels college is important in a person’s life and is sending his kid to Full Sail University in Florida to get some higher learning done.
2. Prison Educated
Ja Rule feels that prison is another place a man can go and educate himself and tells Angie and Envy that he came to understand Malcolm X’s statement that “outside of going to school another place for a Black man to go find himself and learn is prison” once he got locked up. “When I went to prison I had to sit down in a cell and f*ckin’ look at how the f*ck did I get here in this position?” While you’d think he would’ve taken the opportunity to blame 50 Cent snitching for him being locked up, Rule came to realize “I was doing a lot of dumb sh*t and when I learned that I came home a different man.”
3. Fyre Festival
Ja Rule says the Fyre Festival was “an amazing idea” (it was) but “it was f*cking done wrong… the execution was extremely bad.” Even Irv says the initial idea behind Fyre itself had him saying “Wow, Rule, this is brilliant.” Then the event became The Hunger Games. To this day Ja says he hasn’t watched that documentary to the infamous weekend. Irv actually did and says Andy “Take One For The Team” Caine is the breakout star of the documentary. As for Billy McFarland, Ja says he doesn’t speak to him anymore and doesn’t have any intentions on every speaking to him again.
4. Fyre Festival 2.0?
Ja remembers suspecting that the Fyre Festival was going to be suspect when he saw that a sh*t load of struggle tents were purchased for the festivities. But when organizers told Ja that they sent emails to everyone attending that tents were going to be housing them, he thought it was all good. It. Was. Not. But now Ja says that he’s getting calls from “the biggest muthaf*ckin ni**as who do festivals in the world” who see his original vision for the Fyre Festival was popping and want to help him do it the right way. So Ja Rule’s about to go out and redeem himself and his name. 50 Cent might buy all the tickets to make sure no one attends though so…
5. 2nd Chance
Irv says that the stigma of having had beef with the feds a decade ago was the black cloud over his career that kept him from working out new deals with other companies. It wasn’t until Jay-Z accompanied him to a meeting that Steven Hill gave him a shot to direct and produce Tales on BET that he was able to get back in the game. Can’t say no to Hov, b.
6. Yeezy
Without saying names, Irv Gotti says that the season premier of the second season of Tales will be based around a brand new song that he and 7 produced for the “biggest” artist from the mid-west who’s also been the most “controversial” for the past year. I.e. Kanye West. We wonder if it’s going to involve a Make America Great Again hat at all.
7. New Kids on The Block
Though he’s a fan of what this new young generation is doing with Hip-Hop, Irv doesn’t feel anyone will ever be the kind of spitters that mid-90’s rappers were in their late teens mainly because he feels they said it all rhyme wise. Well, he’s not wrong.
8. When They See Us
Irv admits that watching When They See Us had him hating Linda Fairstein to the point where “I want her to suffer.” He ain’t the only one. That series just had her quit a few of her jobs.
