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It eventually reached platinum status in the US due to the popularity of the hit single, "Holla Holla", which reached #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Ja Rule's debut album Venni Vetti Vecci was released in 1999, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 184,000 copies sold in its first week. Allowing Ja to attend the successful Hard Knock Life Tour alongside Jay-Z, DMX, Method Man, Redman, & DJ Clue?.

It was going to be a Ja Rule solo song, until Jay-Z heard the track. Records) which was an imprint label under Def Jam, and along with Amil, he was featured on Jay-Z's hit single " Can I Get A.", for which Ja Rule wrote the hook. In 1998 he had signed with Irv Gotti's The Inc. In 1995, he made his first appearance on Mic Geronimo's "Time to Build", which featured Jay-Z and DMX, who were also in their early stages of their careers. He told Curtis Waller of MTV News that his stage name "Ja Rule" came from a friend who addressed him by that name other friends called him "Ja".

Career beginningsĪtkins began his rap career in 1993 with his hip hop group Cash Money Click. He said he got into many fights at the school because of his small size, so his mother transferred him to Middle School 172 in Glen Oaks, which he described as a "white school". (He talks about Kristen in the song "Daddy's Little Baby.") Atkins attended Public School 134 in Hollis, a school he has described as having a predominantly black student body. When Atkins was five, his mother gave birth to a stillborn baby named Kristen, leaving him as an only child. He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness by his mother, health care worker Debra Atkins, and grandparents. Life and music career Early lifeĪtkins was born in the Queens borough of New York City. He is also known for some well-publicized feuds with other rappers, in particular 50 Cent and Eminem. Due to his hits with his collaborators, Ja Rule has earned four Grammy nominations, and has earned six top-ten albums, two of which Rule 3:36 (2000) and Pain Is Love (2001), topped the US Billboard 200. Records, which was formerly known as Murder Inc. During the 2000s, Ja Rule was signed to The Inc. Billboard Hot 100 chart, including " Between Me and You" with Christina Milian, " I'm Real (Murder Remix)" and Ain't It Funny with Jennifer Lopez, which both topped the US Billboard Hot 100, the Grammy-nominated #1 hit, " Always on Time" with Ashanti, " Mesmerize" also with Ashanti, and " Wonderful" with R. From 1999 to 2005, Ja Rule had several hits that made the top 20 of the U.S. Jeffrey Atkins (born February 29, 1976), better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an American rapper, singer, and actor from Queens, New York.īorn in Hollis, Queens, he debuted in 1999 with Venni Vetti Vecci and its single " Holla Holla".