After getting into a heated conflict with Tony Yayo on camera, Ja Rule explains that nothing major actually happened between the two. During an episode of the TODAY show, he essentially tried to shrug the whole debacle off his shoulders and downplayed it. Still, Ja stressed the importance of never accepting disrespect from another man and always defending yourself. As a father, he couldn’t let that lesson go missed.
“Nothing really happened,” Ja Rule said. “There’s a responsibility that we have to be gentlemen. I live by a code. I call it the gentleman’s code. But I’m also raising young men. So you have to let them know that there’s no room for disrespect, but also that there’s a way to carry yourself. So two things can be true. Disrespect is not tolerated, but there is a way you carry yourself in certain spaces.”
Despite nothing really happening in Ja’s eyes, he still felt the need to apologize. He thought that the whole confrontation reflected a person he tries not to be. But when a rival like Tony Yayo takes him out of his demeanor, it causes a verbal scuffle.
Ja Rule Downplays Tony Yayo Conflict on Airplane
“I’m not proud of my behavior. It’s goofy to me. I’m a grown man about to be a proud grandfather, and I wish that video of me wasn’t out there either,” Ja told ABC News. “I don’t like people taking me out of my character. So, for that, I apologize to my wife, family, fans, business, and investment partners. I want people to know at the end of the day, I’m still a man, and I’m going to stand my ground. I don’t start trouble.”
This all went in contrast to what Ja Rule tweeted in the immediate aftermath of the incident. By contrast, he proudly admitted that he got into it with G-Unit members Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda on an airplane. “I popped on these punks by myself on a plane lmao p***y a** n***as I threw the pillow at yayo head cuz you soft,” he tweeted. “Knocked ya hat all off s**t was hilarious.”
Predictably, 50 Cent couldn’t help but giggle at the whole debacle. His adversary of over 20 years, he relished in Tony Yayo jabbing at Ja Rule and getting under his skin enough that it got him kicked off the airplane. “He was by his self so he had to make a scene so they could remove his scary a**. LOL YAYO said suck my d**k,” 50 wrote on Instagram.
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