Ja Rule is still profoundly torn by losing his longtime friend and collaborator, Irv Gotti. The hip-hop titan, best known as the co-founder of Murder Inc. Records, died at the age of 54 on Feb.

Ja Rule's friends call him Rule. “What should I call you?,” I ask the all-star rapper, Queens native and businessman on a recent visit to the Time Out New York office. “Mister Ja Rule?” ...

The New York rapper's overall advice for rappers: Stay out of beef. By Michael Saponara Ja Rule’s decades-long feud with 50 Cent will seemingly never die, but Ja believes there could’ve been a ...