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Tony Yayo offered another perspective on the fight between 50 Cent and Ja Rule in 2000.
During his latest appearance on Million Dollaz Worth of Game, Yayo recalled the fight between the longstanding rivals in Atlanta and claimed 50 put the brakes on Ja with his southpaw fighting style. At around the 1:20:00 mark, the story goes that the two bumped into each other because their respective managers worked in the same building, and Yayo's version of the events vastly differs from what has been told before.
"50 beat Ja Rule up in Atlanta […] N***a Fif K.O.'d that n***a […] so look Ja Rule just come in the elevators, 'Ahhh Murda!'," said Yayo before explaining how 50's manager told him to stay in the hotel and that nothing would happen which left 50 to fend for himself. "50 out there dolo [...] I was in the building [...] I'm thinking Ja Rule and them ain't gonna do nothing cause [50's manager] was there. So, n***as tried to front on 50. All I know, Bow! 50 catch him so cold."
Yayo then said 50 is a southpaw, which means his left hand is more dominant and led to him having a "10-0" record back in his neighborhood from knocking out "mad n***as in the hood" that were caught off guard. Ja allegedly wasn't expecting the left-hand punch and got hit in the eye, which led to it swelling.
"So look we in the hotel now [...] Fif catch him, swear to God, when he in the lobby it's like the n***a's eye is growing, 'Murda!' His eye is growing. He got a black eye [...] he coming in the hotel with a cookie," said Yayo. "So we get in the elevator, and that's when 50 shows us the little chain that's in 'Wanksta,' the little cross. He goes, 'Look what I got.' So he snuffed him and yanked him."
Ja Rule's autobiography, Unruly, gives his version of the story. In it, he says 50 swung at him and missed, which led to Ja hitting him with a baseball bat. He also claimed pulling 50's shirt over his head and caught him with a variety of punches, as well as hitting him with a speaker.
Murder Inc. Records co-founder Chris Gotti told his side of the story in 2016, which contained elements from Ja and Yayo's perspectives. Gotti claimed 50, and Ja walked off to have a conversation in which the latter aggressively asked the G-Unit boss why he kept making songs that dissed him.
"50 snuffed him…You wanna hear the real story? Ja took the snuff. Takes him. Has his shirt over his head. Hitting him right back," said Gotti on an episode of VladTV. "[50] gets out of his shirt, and he starts running…Gets away. That's what happened that day."
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