Ja Rule Album: “The Last Temptation [PA]”

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Personnel includes: Ja Rule (rap vocals); Bobby Brown, Ashanti, Nas, 2Pac, Charli Baltimore, Crooked I, Caddillac Tah, Alexi, Young Life, Chink Santana. Producers: Chink Santana, Irv Gotti, 7 Aurelius, Cool & Dre. Personnel includes: Ja Rule, Bobby Brown, Nas, 2Pac, Ashanti, Charli Baltimore, Crooked I, Caddillac Tah, Alexi. Producers: Chink Santana, Irv Gotti, The Neptunes, 7 Aurelius, Cool & Dre. Recorded at Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, Florida and Right Track Studios, Crack House Studios, New York, New York. Ja Rule is a rapper who clearly has the whole bread/butter equation down cold. On his second album he broke through to superstardom by tempering his hard-guy front with some accessible pop/R&B flavoring and the occasional touch of relative sensitivity (the beefcake promo photos didn't hurt his appeal with young girls either). Since then, he's been pursuing the ain't-broke-don't-fix-it approach. On his fourth album THE LAST TEMPTATION, Ja continues to pursue the mix of hardcore thug rap and radio-ready pop hooks that's proven so successful in the past. He even includes another posthumous collaboration with 2Pac (seemingly more ubiquitous in his post-mortem state than ever before) on "The Pledge Remix." Ashanti and the original mack daddy Bobby Brown are also on hand to add some melodic color, but despite all the attractive adornments it's still the rough-and-ready rhymes and forceful delivery of Ja Rule that lie quite appropriately at the heart of what hardly seems unlikely to be THE LAST TEMPTATION offered by this high-profile artist. Ja Rule is a rapper who clearly has the whole bread/butter equation down cold. On his second album he broke through to superstardom by tempering his hard-guy front with some accessible pop/R&B flavoring and the occasional touch of relative sensitivity (the beefcake promo photos didn't hurt his appeal with young girls either). Since then, he's been pursuing the ain't-broke-don't-fix-it approach. On his fourth album THE LAST TEMPTATION, Ja continues to pursue the mix of hardcore thug rap and radio-ready pop hooks that's proven so successful in the past. He even includes another posthumous collaboration with 2Pac (seemingly more ubiquitous in his post-mortem state than ever before) on "The Pledge Remix." Ashanti and the original mack daddy Bobby Brown are also on hand to add some melodic color, but despite all the attractive adornments it's still the rough-and-ready rhymes and forceful delivery of Ja Rule that lie quite appropriately at the heart of what hardly seems unlikely to be THE LAST TEMPTATION offered by this high-profile artist.

first let me just say. For all the other reviews that says this is actually hip-hop? you all need to do your homework on actual real hip-hop music. Second of all he is not a rapper and do not dare call him an MC. He is a pop star, and with no idea of real hip-hop is. Grand Wizard Theodore, Kool D.J. Herc, Afrika Bam., Mos def, Jurassic 5, etc. would even tell you guys straight up how he puts out wack stuff just trying to push some stupid sells.

How dare he have the dignity to make us listen to that GARBAGE?

NO SKILLS WHATS SO EVER. for anyone who likes this wack bastard, please listen to de la soul, common, talib kweli, the roots, jurrasic 5, tribe called quest, run dmc, etc. to understand what hip-hop culture really is. KRS-one straight would tell you this is not hip-hop. SO JUST PLEASE STOP!

I wish people would stop calling Ja Rule a wannabe Tupac because that is an insult to Tupac. Their names shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence. What happened to Ja? He's fallen a long way since "Holla Holla." Every single he releases now is a collaboration with some female singing about relationships. Does Ja think his fan base is stupid? Does he think no one will notice that he is just remanufacturing the same song over and over. Ja should just release an R&B album where he is singing on every track because you know that's all he wants to do. You can put Ja Rule in the same category as LL: former hard rappers who lost their street cred by trying to pass pop records off as hip-hop. ...