In the late 90s and early 2000s, there was tremendous buzz surrounding a possible collaborative album between rap superstars Jay Z, DMX and Ja Rule. It seems like ancient history now, but Ja Rule recently spoke about their aborted collaborations in an interview with MTV and he admitted that they were all a little too big and a little too bitter at the time to make the project work.
“We tried to deliver that album,” he said. “It was a situation where egos all just played a part in its demise. We couldn’t get X and Jay in the same room, from long ago, their storied battle on the pool table, guns out and all of that.”
“That carried over into our careers and we was all trying to do our thing separately and it carried over,” he added. “It was hard to get all of us into a room to do what we needed to do.”
The three of them did work with each other sporadically during those years and Ja says there is still music that the fans have not heard.
“We did a few records together and those records will always be classics to a lot of people in the history of hip-hop,” he said. “I wish that album would’ve came to fruition, it would’ve been real dope. I think there might be one — one or two joints that’s still out there that you haven’t heard.”
