"Ja Rule Turned Down $500k for Ludacris' Role in 2 Fast 2 Furious." - John Singleton
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It's not even about the money at the time. It's about a complete lack of foresight. It's not like Ja was some revolutionary when it came to rappers crossing over to movies. He'd seen how valuable it was with artists like Will Smith becoming bigger than they'd ever been by making that transition. The Fast and the Furious was a box office success. Someone with any sort of business sense doesn't throw that opportunity in the bushes. And Luda's not popping like that anymore and they've stayed loyal to his character. Ja could be where Luda is right now instead of making straight to DVD shyt
Word for word. That's the thing that's worth Ja getting a mean look from Bunk. It's just total lack of foresight and him being a diva and blowing off a film director who knew it was a good opportunity for him. that 500k in 2003 could've been 3.5 mil today
Yeah Luda was big too although Ja may have been a tad bigger because this was when Murder Inc was going on their tear which started in 2000 and really hit big in 01-03 which is why he probably would've decided against doing it, feeling like he was too big for it at the time but that's just a bad move. Ja doing that is the equivalent of Homer selling the greyhound puppies to Burns
umpteen years later, ja is still with wifey, his kid is in the university, while luda just went thru some stressful baby mama drama and he may he wifed up a gold digger that put medical school on hold.
life decisions lead down different roads in the future.
life decisions lead down different roads in the future.
Yeah but Ja also did a bid, his record company folded and he's doing straight to dvd flicks or limited release flicks. I guess personally Luda would trade places but professionally he wouldn't
tight fam>$$$$$
bids (country club) are good for business, and ja still has his phat crib
murder inc and the supreme team was some real stuff yo.
jarule swore he was DMX status back then.
i saw jarule's fall coming about a year ahead of time. he was such a diva.
in fairness, i can understand him not wanting to take a small role when he was getting bigger gigs. but i can also see him rubbin john singleton the wrong way by brushing him off and stuff. i believe what singleton said.
i saw jarule's fall coming about a year ahead of time. he was such a diva.in fairness, i can understand him not wanting to take a small role when he was getting bigger gigs. but i can also see him rubbin john singleton the wrong way by brushing him off and stuff. i believe what singleton said.
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Tyrese been in a lot of movies? shyt, outside of Baby Boy, I can't really think of other shyt he was in, except for one other franchise that was just as much, if not more popularity/money-making than Fast & Furious, in Transformers movies, which obviously weren't box-office duds.
Ja rule dumb ass...
He turn down that role but he decide to do movies like pauly shore is dead the same year 2 fast was release...
Dumb nikka
He turn down that role but he decide to do movies like pauly shore is dead the same year 2 fast was release...
Dumb nikka
But Furious came before Transformers.
Waiste deep
But Annapolis and Four Bros I remember. Point was, he's been in a lot of sh1t, but Furious set him up for a lot of sh1t. He's not particularly good @ acting
like i said tyrese and luda dont even have to do music anymore, dudes are set for life for playing roles me and you can do, the dim witted buffed up fiery dark skinned black guy, and the skinny light skin comic relief mechanic.
and meh he prob got paid more for half past dead even though it flopped. Folks acting like its some brian dunkleman terrence howard type ish