Ja je hvězdou hiphopové hudby a do světa filmu se vydal krátce po vydání svého prvního alba. V roce 1999 vydal desku Venni Vetti Vicci a o rok později získal roli v dramatu Turn It Up. Mezi dalšími dvěma deskami Rule 3:36 a Pain is Love obsadil...
Píseň: I Cry
[Lil' Mo] [Chorus] When I cry, you cry We cry, together Said I cry, you cry We cry, together Said I cry, you cry We cry, together Said I cry, you cry We cry, together [Ja Rule] I love my life, I love my wife A bad time to prevail, it overwhelmed me I'm livin in hell but livin wealthy And know these hoes love me Because I'm a star I can't even cop a drink at the bar Get me some bottles of that Remi Mar-tin Let's get the party Cracking right here fuck V.I.P Now when my baby loves me Home wit tears in her eyes And when I get in, I hurt her more by tellin her lies She ain't surprise at me Just surprised that we Been together for this long And I can be The one to mistreat her Thought it last forever Cuz if I cry, you cry We cry together [Chorus] [Ja Rule] From, what I recall we was little niggas Cuttin school gettin high wit da hottest bitches Livin, life so free That we ain't fearin The, ills of the world In heat of drug dealin You and I then made a killin And tuck together I this land of forbidden treasure Love is the only evil seed that could sever A tied this close Not the love between us but your love for the dough You went O.T started makin M-O-N-E-Why All my good niggas gotta die But shit could last forever I wish death was pleasure Cuz when you die I cried, we cried together [Chorus] [Ja Rule] Wash away your tears (my love) You ain't gotta cry no more (my love) I'm putting on everything out (my love) And my pain it's my love And I want This world to smile for me Don't shed a tear cuz the nigga died happily My momma warned me life was a muthafucka But I ignored the warning and kept on hustlin And every night she just looked at me Tears in her eyes and they be saying shit like "I don't want me baby to die" Brought so much pain into a life Gotta make it better Cuz when ma cried I cried We cried together [Chorus] [Lil' Mo] Oooooohhhh You cry, then I cry Then we cry When he cries I cry together, together When I cry, then you cry Then we'll cry, together Baby, cuz when Ja cries, Mo cries We'll cry, together If he cry, I'll cry Then we'll cry, together