Ja Rule known as out racial disparities in live performance safety after a short altercation broke out behind the scenes at a Brandy and Monica present in New York, saying what occurred to him would by no means occur to somebody like Bruce Springsteen.

The Hip-Hop veteran addressed the incident in a video, describing a chaotic second that unfolded backstage.

According to Ja, three males tried to ambush him in the course of the occasion.

“Three n##### tried to sneak me. It can happen to anybody, you know. S### happens to players too. N##### don’t get no points for that,” he stated. “N##### tried it, you know. But, whatever we here, we you know, it’s whatever.”

He recalled the scuffle intimately, saying he and his crew, together with Fat Joe and Joe’s supervisor Rich, have been caught off guard, though Fat Joe and his crew weren’t concerned.

“I’m tussling with a n#### as I’m moving, you know, back and s###, I can stumble over some s### back,” Ja Rule said.

Security finally intervened, and the state of affairs deescalated earlier than it might spill additional.

“It’s a melee,” he stated. “So anyway, s### just kind of disperses, and people disperse start walking to the stage and, of course, because this s### just went down, I’m screaming and yelling, calling n#####, p####.”

But Ja Rule’s important problem wasn’t the tried ambush, it was how the state of affairs was dealt with. He criticized the best way Hip-Hop occasions are secured in comparison with live shows in different genres.

“I want to address how hip hop concerts and white concerts and country concerts, rock concerts and pop concerts are policed or secured,” he stated. “If was Bruce Springsteen at the m############ concert and get attacked in the back, you think the assailants could make it out of the building without getting arrested or something happening? This is how they do black n#####, business as usual.”

The confrontation, which occurred in the course of the Brandy and Monica present—not exterior a restaurant as initially reported—was shortly blown out of proportion on-line.

A viral declare advised Ja Rule had been jumped exterior Sei Less restaurant in Manhattan. That narrative was later debunked by each the rapper and the restaurant itself.

According to a music/rb-hip-hop/ja-rule-jumped-new-york-city-1236119578/”>assertion from Sei Less, no incident occurred at their venue on the evening in query.

Ja Rule responded to the net chatter with a mixture of humor and authorized warnings.

He additionally uploaded a clip of himself sipping from a crimson mug, laughing off the rumors.

The rapper, who has been having fun with renewed consideration in current months and not too long ago introduced he’s turning into a grandfather, made it clear he received’t let misinformation outline his narrative.

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