Ja Rule just lately mirrored on the long-standing rift between Ashanti and Irv Gotti, revealing that he as soon as tried to assist mend their relationship—however in the end selected to step again. Appearing on the BagFuel podcast on July tenth, the rapper spoke about his deep private ties to each artists, sharing how tough it was to look at their falling out unfold publicly.

Gotti, the co-founder of Murder Inc., repeatedly claimed he had a romantic relationship with Ashanti throughout her early profession. His most detailed retelling got here throughout a 2022 interview on Drink Champs, which aired not lengthy after Ashanti had rekindled her romance with Nelly. Ashanti strongly denied Gotti’s model of occasions, calling him out throughout an interview on Angie Martinez IRL and accusing him of spreading falsehoods.

Despite the general public drama, Ashanti expressed remorse following Gotti’s loss of life in February from a hemorrhagic stroke, saying she wished their story had ended otherwise.

During the BagFuel interview, Ja Rule described how attempting to navigate the strain between the 2 was emotionally taxing. Calling Ashanti his “sister” and Gotti his “brother,” he admitted that being caught within the center wasn’t simple. “It’s just sad that my brother and my sister were arguing and going through it like that,” he mentioned.

While he made a number of makes an attempt to mediate, Ja in the end determined to take away himself from the state of affairs. “‘I’m not doing none of that shit. I’m out. Just leave me the fuck out of it. Y’all deal with it. Y’all grown,’” he recalled telling them.

Ja mentioned everybody revered his option to again away, and whereas he stands by that call, he nonetheless needs issues had turned out otherwise between the 2.