Styles P has unveiled that DMX had a specific target in mind when recording the classic track “We Don’t Give A.” During a visit to The Breakfast Club on Tuesday (December 5), the LOX MC disclosed that Ja Rule was the subject of Dark Man X’s lyrical crosshairs.
“The song was about Ja,” Styles told Charlamagne Tha God. “You didn’t know that? X and Ja having beef. They were dogs.”
Continuing to shed light on the matter, Styles added, “He’s in it, I’m in it with him. Y’all had to know that! Listen to the lyrics!”
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Although The Breakfast Club hosts expressed surprise at the revelation of DMX and Ja Rule’s beef, there were indications of their falling out as early as 2002. The dispute stemmed from DMX’s belief that Ja Rule was imitating his style.
“Everybody in here don’t want me to do it – they whining – but I’m gonna do it,” DMX said to HipHopDX at the time.
When questioned about their similar styles, DMX asserted, “It’s not like I’m the only one thinking about this. N-ggas ask me about this shit every day. So what I’m gonna do? Sit here and do nothing about this shit? That ain’t right. I could see if the n-gga talked like that regularly. How I talk is how I rap.”
According to DMX, Ja Rule’s attitude changed with his success, and DMX wasn’t pleased with it.
“We up in the club in LA, one night, he got his people, I got my people,” DMX explained. “We at opposite sides of the club. Me, out of respect – that’s my n-gga – take two people with me to get through the crowd. I take a bottle of liquor over there and have a couple of drinks with my n-gga, cause that’s how I am. Two weeks later we happened to be in the same club. Same circumstances. Some kid walks over to me and says ‘Ja says he is over there.’ I’m like ‘Aight, is he gonna come over?’ ‘Nah, he said come over there.’ Get the fuck out of here man, I already extended my hand once. Give me the same courtesy. You can’t do the same as me? I sent him right back over there. You’d think Ja would come over here after all that. Nothin!’ I’m like, “fuck you.””
