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Connected

By Ja Rule · Targeting 50 Cent, DMX

Connected is a diss track by Ja Rule targeting 50 Cent and DMX. The recording also credits Crooked I, Eastwood and Chink Santana. The record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations.

Released2002

Annotated4

ExplicitYes

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Lyrics & breakdown

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[Intro: Chink Santana & Irv Gotti]
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Woooooo
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That shit is gangsta, nigga (Murda Inc.)
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(Murda Inc., motherfucker)
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Santana the God!
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(Yo)
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[Chorus: Chink Santana & Eastwood]
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We worldwide connected
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Y'all don't wanna fuck wit us
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In the streets we respected
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So y'all don't wanna fuck wit us
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We worldwide connected, nigga
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Y'all don't wanna fuck wit us
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We gangsta ass niggas and we hard to hit
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Murder Inc. (Yeah) and Tha Row (Uh), who could fuck wit this?
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[Verse 1: Eastwood]
Multi-line diss block
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It ain't no mercy, motherfuckers, who can fade these thugs
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It's Murder Inc. and Tha Row, nigga throw up your dub
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They show us love in the club, real niggas bossed up
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Man we heavily intoxicated so toss it up
Block noteImagines the battle as physical destruction
Target50 Cent
MeaningWhat it means: In “It's Murder Inc. and Tha Row, nigga throw up your dub,” Ja Rule converts lyrical defeat into death, shooting, burial, or bodily harm directed at 50 Cent. Why it was said: The record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations. The violent image makes the response sound final: instead of proposing an endless exchange, the artist depicts 50 Cent as unable to return for another round.
ContextThe record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations.
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Attack your mind, I'm your conscience, spittin' to enhance this
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Verbally thug grammar, I'm 'bout to touch the world wit it
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Extraordinary, and I was never ordinary, at the cemetery missin' my homies in mortuaries
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Hen Dogg, Buntry Al, young N.I.N.A. and Pac
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I'ma keep my heat tight and mash until my soul go pop
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I hear a lot of niggas rappin'
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But it that ain't that many rappers out there scrapin' and keep it crackin', we make it happen
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I'm a million out the gate, nah, scratch that, ate from
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CDs to tapes, we rock like earthquakes
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I'm Eastwood, catch me dippin' the Fleetwood like a G should, young East is so damn hood
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[Chorus: Chink Santana]
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We worldwide connected
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Y'all don't wanna fuck wit us
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In the streets we respected
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So ya'll don't wanna fuck wit us
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We worldwide connected, nigga
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Y'all don't wanna fuck wit us
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We gangsta ass niggas and we hard to hit
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Murder Inc. and Tha Row, who could fuck wit this?
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[Verse 2: Crooked I]
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Nigga, Crooked I is raaaaw spit
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Murder Inc. and Tha Row, we aaaall sick
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So all niggas involved get mauled quick as a dog
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And the brawl get you to fall then I'ma draw quick, nigga, awwww shit
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Punks talkin' lip, I haul off quick
Multi-line diss block
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When the sawed-off kick, it's like you fall off cliffs
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Y'all call it off before all y'all get stomped like you're fallen off in the raw mosh pit
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Off in a ditch, your coffin'll sit
Block noteImagines the battle as physical destruction
Target50 Cent
MeaningWhat it means: In “Off in a ditch, your coffin'll sit,” Ja Rule converts lyrical defeat into death, shooting, burial, or bodily harm directed at 50 Cent. Why it was said: The record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations. The violent image makes the response sound final: instead of proposing an endless exchange, the artist depicts 50 Cent as unable to return for another round.
ContextThe record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations.
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While I floss in the awesomest whips
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And I'm tossin' your chicks, show caution when you crawl in your six
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Cause your talkin' could get you crossed and lost in the mix
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I'm a boss in this bitch, bossed in the pits
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Berg, I serve, niggas let off at ya clique
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Sped off with ya grip, my lead'll gangreen you
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I have the doctors takin' your leg off where you're hit, motherfucker
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[Chorus: Chink Santana & Ja Rule]
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We worldwide connected
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Y'all don't wanna fuck wit us
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In the streets we respected
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So ya'll don't wanna fuck wit us (Yea)
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We worldwide connected, nigga (Yea) (You know, East to West) (You what [?], holla)
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Y'all don't wanna fuck wit us (North to South)
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We gangsta ass (Durty) (Uh huh) niggas and we hard to hit (Ha ha) (Yea)
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Murder Inc. (Yo) (Tell these niggas) and Tha Row, who could fuck wit this?
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[Verse 3: Ja Rule]
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All y'all niggas need to get off my dick, I spit it how I live it
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Plus the flows real sick, broccoli
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I got killers ranged from Compton to Cleveland
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Worldwide connected, air tight, nigga there's no breathin'
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Give me the reason, I put a hollow throw your mental
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Then give you the Holy Spirit and send you to God's temple
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I'm the avengin' angel and Earth be my claim
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As Ja be thy name, I know y'all all prayin'
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For the day of my diminishin'
Multi-line diss block
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Why won't somebody finish him off and put it right through his cross?
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The X's, the 50's, y'all gotta be kiddin' me
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These niggas is my sons, I raised them from young
Block noteShrinks the target into a dependent
Target50 Cent
MeaningWhat it means: In “These niggas is my sons, I raised them from young,” Ja Rule recasts 50 Cent as a child, student, or minor-league figure who depends on a more powerful adult or senior artist. Why it was said: The record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations. The hierarchy denies equality before the battle is judged: if 50 Cent is treated as a dependent, the target's challenge can be dismissed as imitation, immaturity, or ingratitude.
ContextThe record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations.
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Curtis and lil Earl, should've been little girls
Multi-line diss block
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'Cause they bitch-made and they act like one of my itch-bays
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Touché, the Rule is more than ready
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Gun heavy and worldwide connected, feel me, heh, heh
Block noteImagines the battle as physical destruction
Target50 Cent
MeaningWhat it means: In “Gun heavy and worldwide connected, feel me, heh, heh,” Ja Rule converts lyrical defeat into death, shooting, burial, or bodily harm directed at 50 Cent. Why it was said: The record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations. The violent image makes the response sound final: instead of proposing an endless exchange, the artist depicts 50 Cent as unable to return for another round.
ContextThe record belongs to the long-running conflict between Ja Rule and Murder Inc. and 50 Cent's camp. The dispute widened to include G-Unit, Eminem, Dr. Dre, DMX, Busta Rhymes and others through affiliations, response records and personal accusations.
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[Chorus: Chink Santana]
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We worldwide connected
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Y'all don't wanna fuck wit us
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In the streets we respected
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So ya'll don't wanna fuck wit us
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We worldwide connected, nigga
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Y'all don't wanna fuck wit us
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We gangsta ass niggas and we hard to hit
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Murder Inc. and Tha Row, who could fuck wit this?
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[Skit: Ja Rule]
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Extra, extra
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Hear all about it
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Ja Rule has just been elected president of United Ghettos of Emerica
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That shit
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Yeah that shit, that shit ain't, know what I'm sayin'
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They tried to pin that shit on me and Eminem and niggas like that, know what I'm sayin', like we makin' the kids do ecstasy
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I'm not makin' the kids do ecstasy
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THEY MADE ME DO ECSTASY!
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*laughter*
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Here's what he had to say at press time
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Welcome to Emerica, ha ha ha ha ha ha
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My peoples, my peoples
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Welcome to Emerica