Ja Rule Says Prison is "Amazing"

Prison is “amazing” says Ja Rule who revealed that he’s using his two year prison sentence to make friends and expand his network. The Murder Inc. rapper will be locked up until February 2013 following his conviction on a gun possession charge which landed him in Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate Oneida, New York.

The rapper says that since he began his prison stint in June he’s had the opportunity to meet some individuals that he’d never run into outside of a correctional facility, and Ja Rule’s new crew isn’t exactly what you’d expect to find in a prison as the rapper’s friends are former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi and former Tyco Internation CEO Dennis Kozlowski. “It’s funny. We’re from totally different walks of life. But when you’re here, you’re here,” Ja Rule explained to the New York Daily News.

Ja Rule says the two men took him under their wing when he landed in the facility and since then he’s been picking up investing tips and learning about international relations from his new buddies. “Outside, you don’t meet guys like this every day. This place is amazing,” Ja Rule said. “Koz just got out on work release. Not to say I wish he was still here. But they’re both great, smart guys,” the rapper continued.

Hevesi, who earned his Ph.D from Columbia, and Kozlowski, who is a graduate of Seton Hall, prompted the rapper, who dropped out of high school, to look into higher education. Ja Rule took up the challenge and recently obtained his GED. “I was studying for my GED and Koz came in and talked to me and said, if you need any help, let me know,” says the rapper.

Even though the rapper is locked up he’s still readying for the release of ‘Pain is Love 2’ which is due out at the end of the month. The record, which is a sequel to his 2001 album ‘Pain is Love,’ will be his first album in eight years.

Irv Gotti For President.............Of Def Jam.

Former Murder Inc. CEO Irv Gotti has clarified speculation on being anti-Def Jam and wanting to takeover the historic label's presidential vacancy after numerous controversial remarks last fall. In it''s perspective, the fans and fellow entertainers alike pushed his Def Jam campaign.

"It caused a buzz, and I want people to know I didn't start the whole 'Irv Gotti for president' thing; the people did," the former Def Jam A&R told MTV News as he walked the red carpet at the reopening of Jay-Z's 40/40 Club in Manhattan last week. "It was a crazy thing, and it was all good." It doesn't seem like Def Jam brass will put Irv in the big chair, but Gotti is appreciative of the support he has gotten from the hip-hop community. "Everybody was riding. It was a lot of love," he said last week. "Everybody felt what I was saying and was riding." (MTV)

Recently, Gotti offered his take on why Def Jam is in dire need of a president.

"Def Jam ain't f*cking with me, I'm too much of a n*gga," Gotti said in an interview. "Yeah. [laughs] As quoted. I mean, Def Jam, I shouldn't even comment on it because it gets me angry because there hasn't been a president since [Jay-Z], really. It's a terrible thing because it's so important to the culture and it's like they're just letting it go away, they ain't paying any attention to it. I'm from Hollis, Queens so Def Jam was my inspiration to have Murder Inc. and just for them to not have no one being president there, even after we hoot and hollered, I wanted it so bad, not even for the money or nothing. I just love the culture and Def Jam is the light of the culture. So to have no one there, the powers that be don't care. They don't care about my culture. I don't want to talk about it. Please retract the n*gga statement." (The Source)