Author Topic: JAH RULE...JAH RULE...JAH RULE... (Read 130 times)

C_R_O_N_I_C_I · « **on:** October 12, 2001, 06:53:22 AM »

(source:mtv.com)
Though his Pain Is Love just debuted at #1, Ja Rule is already laying the groundwork for his next album, aiming to accomplish the same feat again next year.

"Over the last few years, ni---s changed the game for real," Ja said recently. "Ain't no more two, three years till your next album. One a year, two a year — drop them or get dropped off. That's the game."

Pain Is Love, his third album, hit stores on October 2, just shy of a year since Rule 3:36 was released. Ja said he already knows the name of his fourth record: The Last Temptation.

"It's crazy, but since my first album, I knew the title of my next five albums," he said. "I had this whole sh-- mapped out how I want to do my albums."

Some of the songs Ja is thinking about putting on the LP are "Dope Man," "Rock Star," "Been Here Before" and "Father Forgiven," which is dedicated to his estranged dad.

"I haven't spoken to him in years," Ja said. "I hated my father for years and years, all because he left home. He wasn't with my mother. ... There's more to it, of course, why they weren't together. But you grow up and you get older and you start to learn and you understand things. I've got a wife, I've got kids, so when I'm out on the road I see things, I know things. I understand where a relationship between a man and a woman can go foul.

"So I forgive him in certain aspects of what he's done, and the other foul sh-- is just foul sh--," he continued. "It can't be forgiven, but I want to reach out to my pops. On my first album, I did 'Only Begotten Son' where I'm just blasting him. I just want him to know that as a man, I know what it's like to be a man. 'Father forgiven,' that's the hook to it."

Part of the hook to Ja's new single, "Always on Time," is sung by Ashanti and goes: "I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time." He was hoping to play off those lyrics in the video, directed by Dave Myers, but ended up changing the concept altogether due to the terrorist attacks.

"We had a James Bond setup. One girl tries to trap me up and puts a bomb on a boat. Another girl had to come and save me just before the bomb explodes. It has nothing to do with terrorism or nothing like that, it's just the wrong time. Dave came and said, 'I think we should take that part out,' and I said, 'I agree.' "