Sep 16, 2017 Ja Rule - New York hip-hop extraordinaire, who has at least one song on all of your #TBT Spotify playlists. The Queens-born rapper signed to The Inc. Records (at the time called Murder Inc. Records) and in 1999, he released his debut album Venni Vetti Vicci, which featured Ja Rule's first big single, "Holla Holla." The following year, Ja Rule released the follow-up to his debut album by dropping Rule 3:36 and Ja Rule quickly entered the peak of his career. On his sophomore album was "Between Me And You" with Christina Milian and "Put It On Me," which both kept the rise of Ja Rule's career on a steady incline. At this point, Ja Rule was definitely feelin' like a million bucks. He had multiple songs on the Top 40 and Billboard Top 100 lists but when he dropped Pain Is Love in 2001, Ja Rule finally topped charts with a number 1 single on the Billboard Top 100: "Always On Time" featuring Ashanti. Also on Pain Is Love was "Livin' It Up" featuring Case, which also made it to number 6 on the chart. When you release three albums back-to-back with chart hits, it's hard to keep that momentum going. The next few albums Ja Rule released is where we start to see his fame and success heading downhill. He went on to release three more albums, all with maybe a hit on each - one of which being "Ain't It Funny" with Jennifer Lopez and "Mezmerize" with Ashanti. That's SIX albums in SIX years - at this point, Ja Rule was just asking to burn out. And so he did. In 2005, he decided to take a hiatus from making music. At the same time, The Inc. Records was under investigation for drug trades and Ja Rule left Murder Inc. This is when things became pretty sad for Ja Rule. Just when he started to get back into music, Ja Rule was sent to prison for two years for tax evasion and illegal gun possession. In prison, Ja Rule's wife, Aisha Atkins, started rumors about her hubby saying that he was having relations with his cellmate. Which circled around the internet pretty quickly. Ja Rule's reputation and career was hangin' on by a thread. Before and after serving time in prison, Ja Rule attempted acting in a few movies - but nobody really remembers him in any of them (except for his tiny part in Fast And The Furious). Poor dude.
Sep 16, 2017 Eminem had an amazing 3 albums Kanye had an amazing run (would still be going on if he didnt release tlop) Biggie had a short but goat 2 albums
Sep 16, 2017 If you factor in that Life After Death as two albums that brings Biggie up to three classics more than a lot of rappers and that was his only three records so...
