Ja Rule

Hot 97's Hip Hop Has Heart foundation hosted its first ever Lift 'Em Up Holiday Dinner at Queens, N.Y.'s Jamaica Performing Arts Center. Some big names in hip-hop and R&B lent a helping hand for the festivities.

Talk about the friendly skies. Long-standing enemies Ja Rule and 50 Cent seem to have officially buried the hatchet since they flew together on the same plane.

After spending two years behind bars as inmate 07608730Q at Ray Brook Federal Prison in New York, Ja Rule did his first official interview alongside The Inc. CEO, Irv Gotti, with Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club.

Ja Rule and longtime business partner Irv Gotti sat down for a discussion of the Queens, N.Y. native's experience in prison, taking the L in his battle against 50 Cent, and more with Hot 97's Angie Martinez.

Ja Rule's first track since being released from house arrest this past August has finally arrived in the fittingly titled 'Fresh Out Da Pen.'

Just days after being released from house arrest, the even more swollen Ja Rule makes his long-awaited return to the mic on the official remix to N.O.R.E.'s 'She Tried.'

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule was set to leave an upstate prison on Thursday after serving most of his two-year sentence for illegal gun possession but head straight into federal custody in a tax case. The rapper, who had been in protective custody at the Mid-State Correctional Facility because of his celebrity, has some time remaining on a 28-month sentence for tax evasion,

Let's face it: Not all songs are good. In fact, many songs kinda suck. It's the law of repeated airplay -- to the point where everybody knows the words -- that allows a mediocre song to achieve likeable status. It's not the best way to get people to like you, but hey, not everything wins on looks and personality...

In music, you don't need a four-leaf clover to be lucky. A few public outbursts, one really great album and an infamous beef; these are all things that can carry an artist for quite a while, whether good or bad. While many say that it's not the best look to be recognized for negative qualities, the old saying goes that any publicity is good publicity...

The prevailing voice for young readers during hip-hop's early years, several of Dr. Seuss' books sell enough copies to go gold annually, and while works like 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs and Ham' are generally referenced due to their simplicity, his impression on rap music, thanks to his employment of the repetitive, sing-song anapestic tetrameter, is undeniable...