See more Your browser does not support the audio element. Plus, there's enough strong material here to encourage full-album listening, as the crossover singles no longer stand out apart from the hardcore rap filler to the degree that they did on Rule 3:36. Follow Ja Rule:Facebook: /RuleyorkcityInstag. have a formula thats worked well in the past, and theyre not about to desert it with artists like Ja and Ashanti hitting the charts every time they release a single. REMASTERED IN HDOfficial Music Video for Always On Time performed by Ja Rule featuring Ashanti. Actually, this formula is fine-tuned on Pain Is Love to account for some exceptions - for instance, the lead single, 'Livin' It Up,' interpolates Stevie Wonder's 'Do I Do' for its crossover-R&B aspect, while the title track recycles an old, generally unheard 2Pac verse to great effect - and a significantly more balanced album is the result. Ja Rules self-proclaimed return to the streets isnt that rough compared to most hardcore rap after all, Irv Gotti, Chink Santana, and the rest of Murder Inc. It should be no surprise then to discover that Pain Is Love follows the same formula that had made Rule 3:36 such a commercial success: craft some radio-friendly crossover singles, often featuring pretty young female R&B singers as romantic counterpoints, and then fill out the album with hardcore rap, often featuring Murder Inc.'s roster of secondary rappers, to sustain Ja Rule's thug reputation. A day didn't pass between the release of the two albums when Ja Rule's voice couldn't be heard on urban radio, and at the time of Pain Is Love's release in October 2001, he had not one but two singles getting nonstop airplay: 'Livin' It Up' and 'I'm Real,' the latter a Jennifer Lopez song featuring him as a guest rapper. The few rap-R&B hybrids on Rule 3:36 (2000) paid off large dividends by the time of Ja Rule's next album, Pain Is Love. TOP CH£F RECORDS Presents JA RULE CLASSIC HITS MIX, Compiled & Mixed by DJ XCLUSIVE G2B.DJXCLUSIVEG2B HOTTESTDJ HOODBESTDJ(((One Love 2 All My Listeners. After releasing his telling memoir, Unruly, The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man, last week, Ja announced another new chapter: the release of a new album. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.

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