Ja Rule tells Jalen Rose about the women who gave him a ‘wake-up call’
nypost.comrapper Ja Rule out of the tough streets of Hollis, Queens. But as he also points out to me on this week’s “Renaissance Man,” it also was the love of some extraordinary women.The first was his daughter, Brittany, who was born in 1995.
At the time, Ja had one foot in the music world and one still in the bad choices he had made.“After I had my daughter, you know, everything kind of hit me all at once,” he said. “I caught a gun case and drug case at that time … and it was like a wake-up call.
It was like, you know, ‘What are you really going to do? What are you making of your life at this moment?’”He gave himself 100% to music, and the rest was history — particularly his work with female singers.
He produced two massive hits with J.Lo, “I’m Real” and “Ain’t It Funny.”And Ashanti, “We got so many dope records together. It’s not just a one-off with me, and we got, like five hits together. … that’s special.”Then there’s Mary J.
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