Tony Yayo Calls Ja Rule An “Industry Plant,” Doubles Down On Decades-Long Beef

Tony Yayo will “never” respect Ja Rule, showing no signs of reconciliation. After Yayo and DJ Vlad briefly discussed their Mount Rushmore of Queens rappers, the G-Unit rapper spoke about why he would leave Ja Rule off the list. Regardless of how many platinum plaques Ja Rule has massed, Tony asserted that he simply can’t respect “a put-together gangster.”

Vlad argued that his numbers don’t lie and that Tony and co. have to respect what he did commercially despite any ill will that the G-Unit camp may have for him. But Yayo wasn’t hearing it. “He was like the industry plant early, Ja Rule […],” Yayo explained. “Ja Rule was a buster to me. I don’t know him. He’s from the other side of town. He’s a buster to me, and he’s still a buster. Irv [Gotti]’s a buster, Irv’s brother’s a buster, and they’re all busters to me. That’s how I always looked at them… He did numbers, but I just—he’s always been a buster to me.”

The G-Unit and Ja Rule feud has been raging on for two decades now. Yayo and his team haven’t backed down from hating their nemesis along with the Murder Inc. clique. Yayo echoed these sentiments in 2023 when Vlad asked him about a possible reconciliation between 50 Cent and Rule. Predictably, the “So Seductive” rapper couldn’t fathom a timeline where that would happen.

Vlad suggested, “If Ja Rule came forward and publicly said, ‘Listen, I wanna apologize to 50 Cent and G-Unit for X, Y, and Z. I was young, you know, we were all wild, I wanna—we all have kids now, I wanna put it behind us.” Yayo began rolling his eyes and immediately shut the hypothetical down, asserting, “Shut the f**k up with that sh*t, Vlad, please.”

Based on Tony Yayo’s stance two decades into this beef, it’ll continue for two decades more.