Ja Rule, 'Pain Is Love 2' MPire, Fontana Ja Rule – cigar ablaze and drink in hand – stares down and caresses a bound and gagged woman with the word “Fame” tattooed across her bare chest.

2001: After the tremendous success of his first two albums, Queens rapper Ja Rule was primed for the biggest album of his career. Enter his third album, Pain Is Love, which he dropped on Oct. 2, 2001.

Ja Rule Pain Is Love 2 Cover Ja Rule might be locked behind bars but his Pain Is Love 2 album is still on the way. PIL2 is a sequel to Ja Rule’s 2001 album Pain Is Love and will be the first ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit Ja Rule’s fleeting moment in the sun, a ...

With its February 28th release date approaching quickly, we have the artwork and tracklist for Ja Rule’s latest studio album Pain is Love 2. Surprisingly, the 13 track album doesn’t have any ...

With ‘Pain Is Love’, his third solo offering, Ja Rule once again sticks to the 2Pac thug ethos for rap success: spit hard, fight to survive, catch a few bodies if you need to but don’t be ...

Ja Rule last released an album in 2012. Pain Is Love 2, the Queens rapper’s seventh studio album, was released during his incarceration for tax evasion and gun possession.While it did make the ...

Ja’s third album, Pain Is Love, has stormed out of the gate with a quicker first step, selling 360,712 in its first week, according to SoundScan, to give him his second consecutive Number One ...

Ja Rule Wants Young Thug to Collaborate on his New Album '12.Twelve.XII' The musician's upcoming album is his first since 2012's 'Pain Is Love 2' By People Staff ...

Ja Rule’s “Pain Is Love” fends off a surging Enya and a No. 3 debut by Southern rapper Bubba Sparxxx to claim the No. 1 slot on The Billboard 200 for a second-straight week.

JA RULE Pain Is Love Def Jam Ja Rule is the stereotypical rapper. His music (songs about hos, and ice) and his look (shirt off, thugged out) certainly won’t gain him any creativity points. However, ...

Ja Rule has reflected on his decade-long hiatus from recording music and has teased a forthcoming new album.. READ MORE: 22 super-fun rap songs that turn 20 in 2022 The ‘Always On Time’ rapper ...