

What Happened To Him?Įven after becoming as successful as he was as a rapper, Ja Rule soon went missing from the hip-hop scene following his various legal battles that had seen him spend some time behind bars as well as his unending feuds with other rappers which would turn out to be his undoing.Īmong his first major feud was with and the feud would spiral to into a beef with the entire G-Unit. Through it all, the couple is still going strong. There were times when it was speculated that the couple might be heading for a divorce after the rumors came out that Ja Rule cheated on his wife and he was gay. Their relationship has not been without its challenges but Aisha Murray Atkins and Jeffrey Atkins are still together and in 1995, they gave birth to a child, Brittany. Their next kids, Jeffery Junior and Jordan were born in 20 respectively. The couple first met when she was Aisha was then 14 while still in high school and they stuck together since then.

Nonetheless, there is no confirmation to that and he is married to Aisha Murray. In 2013, there were rumors that emerged claiming that the rapper is gay. He would make other releases, but nothing as successful as his previous albums. His next albums were The Last Temptation (2002), Blood in My Eye (2003), and R.U.L.E. The single, Always on Time which featured Ashanti became one of the most popular songs of the album which was nominated for the Best Rap Album at the 2002 Grammy awards. This became another very successful album that sold more than those before it. Pain Is Love is his next album, released in 2001. It became a success in no time, reaching platinum and paving way for his next album, Rule 3:36 released in 2000 which outperformed the first one. His first album, Venni Vetti Vecci was released in 1999. His first work was with the hip-hop group, Cash Money Click which also had Chris Black and O-1. What would pull him off the streets where he was trying to make a life for himself was rap music which he began in 1993.

He started dealing in drugs after he had to move out from grandparents’ house and live with his mother who at the time was also struggling. His mother lost a child when it was still in the womb as a result of breathing complication and so Atkins was raised without any siblings as a Jehovah’s Witness – a religious organization which his mother would later leave.īy the age of 12, Jeffrey Atkins had already started selling drugs in Queens to his friend’s family. His father, William Atkins, left the family when he was still just a child, and the responsibility of raising him was left to his mother, Debra. While it is as Ja Rule that a larger part of the world knows the rapper, he was born as Jeffrey Bruce Atkins on February 29, 1976, in Queens, New York.
