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November 19, 2002

The High Life

Fame, money, movies, diamond watches - and still Ja Rule sees destruction ahead
December 19, 2001

People of the Year 2001: Ja Rule

His voice is full of pain, but his heart is full of love

Blood In My Eye

He's recently grinned his way through an increase-the-peace summit with Louis Farrakhan, and, in his liner notes, he shouts out to "all the black leaders." But peace isn't the prize Ja Rule has got his eye on. His fifth album, Blood in My Eye, has the hastily thrown-together feel of a street mix...

2003 RS: 2of 5 Stars

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When he debuted with his solo LP, Venni Vetti Vecci, Ja Rule cast himself as an analogue of Tupac and DMX: Not only was Rule a bald, bandanna-sporting, tattooed thug with an affinity for going topless, but he also wrestled with his mortality in long, melodic swipes of rhyme on poignant numbers like "Race Against Time" and takes a swan dive into hedonism on the R. Kelly-sampled "Suicide Freestyle."...

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