Jeffrey Bruce Atkins
Jeffrey Bruce Atkins (Raper) |
Introduction
Jeffrey Bruce Atkins (born February 29, 1976) entertainer. Brought into the world in Hollis, Queens, he appeared in 1999 with Venni Vetti Vecci and its lead single "Holla". During the 2000s, Ja Rule was endorsed to Murder Inc., earlier known as The Inc.
Blood in My Eye (2003), and R.U.L.E. (2004), with The Last Temptation achieving Platinum status and R.U.L.E. arriving at Gold status. Starting in 2018, Rule has sold 14.4 million units in the USA and has sold north of 30 million records around the world. In 2019, he joined the primary cast of WeTV's Growing Up Hip Hop: New York.
Early life
Jeffrey's dad left the family when he was extremely youthful. Atkins was brought up as a lone kid, as his more youthful sister, Kristen, passed on in the belly when Atkins was 5. His mom, Debra, was a medical care laborer, and because of the measure of time she spent working, Atkins was to a great extent raised by his grandparents as a Jehovah's Witness. Atkins' mom left the Jehovah's Witness religion when he was 12. Before long, Atkins started selling drugs in Hollis.
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Greenbacks Click (1994–95)
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Solo vocation and Venni Vetti Vecci (1995–1999)
After being dropped from TVT, Ja Rule kept a cozy relationship with DJ Irv, who was functioning as a leading maker for Def Jam at that point. He later showed up on the tune "Normal Suspects" from Mic Geronimo's second collection Vendetta in 1997, close by The Lox, DMX, and Tragedy Khadafi.
Ja Rule and Vita in 2001
The video for "Put It on Me" likewise beat the MTV Video Countdown for seven days, and turned into the main music video to be resigned on BET's 106 and Park after going through over 60 days on the commencement. The video likewise positioned #1 on BET's Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2001.
Ja Rule's subsequent collection, Rule 3:36, was delivered on October 10, 2000, and took an entirely different creative bearing to Ja Rule's past work, including Venni Vetti Vecci, shunning the no-nonsense hip-jump style he had become known for a standard arranged pop-rap sound to better progress, appearing at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 276,000 duplicates sold in its first week, making it Ja Rule's first number one collection. The collection later proceeded to be confirmed triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Ja Rule's 6th studio collection, R.U.L.E., was delivered in November 2004, appearing at #7 and selling 166,000 duplicates in its first seven-day stretch of delivery. Its lead single, "Superb", highlighting R. Kelly and Ashanti, crested at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The RIAA affirmed R.U.L.E. Gold on January 14, 2005, and by October 2007 the collection had sold 658,000 duplicates.
Torment Is Love 2, jail, and delivery (2011–present)
In February 2011, it was declared that Ja Rule had begun chipping away at another collection, Pain Is Love 2, to be delivered by the makers of the first Pain Is Love collection to "reproduce wizardry". The next day a mystery video debuted on YouTube, and the authority video was delivered on October 11 Pain Is Love 2 was at long last delivered on February 28, 2012, by which time Ja Rule was carrying out a two-year punishment in jail for weapon ownership and tax avoidance.
Acting
Besides rapping, Ja Rule has set up a profession as an entertainer. His first film was a pal film with Pras, Turn It Up; he showed up in a minor job in The Fast and the Furious. He showed up in a few films incorporating Back in the Day with Ving Rhames and Pam Grier and Half Past Dead as Steven Seagal's co-star.
Different endeavors
In 2004, Ja Rule and Gotti dispatched a metropolitan dress line called ErvinGeoffrey. In 2006, Ja Rule dispatched an alcohol organization, The Mojito.
In May 2015, Ja Rule collaborated with Billy McFarland, the CEO of the Visa administration organization Magnises, to turn into its inventive head and representative. In August 2015, Ja Rule worked together with footwear financial specialist Steve Madden on another line of men's tennis shoes called Maven x Madden, which were delivered available to be purchased by fall 2015.
In 2016, Ja Rule helped to establish Fyre Media, Inc., an ability booking organization, with Billy McFarland. In April 2017, the endeavor promoted its Fyre Festival in Hamilton, Bahamas, as an extravagance occasion, however, it was a calculated disappointment, baffling many ticket-purchasers. Rule and McFarland confronted a $100 million class activity suit.
In 2021, Ja Rule cooperated with a group of computer programmers to dispatch Flipkick, a stage zeroing in on selling actual masterpieces as Non-Fungible Tokens. Flip kick professes to be "the primary organization to offer cryptographic verification of actual masterpieces sold as and connected to NFTs." To introduce the stage, Ja Rule recorded available to be purchased a painting he authorized in 2012 by craftsman Tripp Derrick Barnes portraying the Fyre Media Inc logo. The work of art was recorded with a gauge of $600,000.
Personal life
Atkins procured his GED while in jail in February 2012. In February 2021, Atkins finished a web-based course at Harvard Business School and shared a photograph of his authentication of fruition on Twitter.
Family
In April 2001, Ja Rule wedded Aisha Murray. A few have three youngsters: Brittney Asja Atkins (conceived 1995), Jeffrey Jr. (conceived 2000), and Jordan (conceived 2005).
Grants and designations
American Music Awards
Year Nominee/work Award Result
2002 Himself Favorite Hip-Hop/R&B Male Artist Nominated
2003 Himself Favorite Hip-Hop/R&B Male Artist Nominated
BET Awards
Year Nominee/work Award Result
2002 Himself Best Male Hip-Hop Artist Won
GQ Men of the Year Awards
Year Nominee/work Award Result
2002 Himself Musician of the Year Won
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