Ja Rule is opening up about the tense moment that unfolded aboard a Delta flight involving Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda, saying the incident pushed him to reflect on the example he wants to set moving forward.
Appearing on the TODAY show this week, Ja Rule downplayed the confrontation while stressing accountability.
“Nothing really happened,” he said. “There’s a responsibility that we have to be gentlemen. I live by a code, I call it the gentleman’s code, but I’m also raising young men. So you have to let them know there’s no room for disrespect, but also that there’s a way to carry yourself.”
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The encounter took place over Super Bowl weekend when Ja Rule ended up seated near Tony Yayo and Uncle Murda on a commercial flight. Voices were raised, but flight attendants intervened before the situation turned physical.
In the days after the incident, Ja Rule issued a public apology, calling his behavior “goofy” and admitting he wished the viral footage had never surfaced. “I’m a grown man about to be a grandfather,” he wrote. “I don’t like people taking me out of my character.”
Still, he made it clear that “Disrespect is not tolerated,” he said on TODAY. “But there is a way you carry yourself in certain spaces.”